Monday, July 12, 2010

Hopefully the Beginning of the End for the Gulf Oil Spill!

Live Camera Feed of the Deep Horizon Spill Below!!! 
So can we imagine it?. The Oil stopping and finally being capped, and the beginning of a cleanup that will take a decade, as we monitor how the oil and dispersants will effect the ecology of the Gulf coast well into our Grandchildren's life as adults.

An entire way of life regarding fishing gone forever to families who have put shrimp and crab on our dinner plates for over two generations? How well, will the government treat those farmers of the sea in the years to come, whose businesses are devastated ? How will we save the animal life of over 70 species, which are already endangered or on the threatened list from becoming extinct???

Imagine a spill of this magnitude on land. A slick of oil the size of the entire Counties of Beaverhead and Madison combined. You step out of your house to fumes that make you sick, and your children have trouble breathing while rashes break out all over there bodies. The Cattle on you ranch lay dying, robins and finches lay covered with oil at you feet, and your fields will be too contaminated to grow crops for ten to a hundred years.

And all the while this BP company that caused this mess... flew over your fields time and time again spraying dispersants, that sunk the oil beneath the dirt of you fields making it impossible to save the organic matter that made your lands so fertile. Driving chemical toxicity into your well water and into underground streams. Tainted water that flows for hundreds of miles and pops up into the Majestic Yellowstone Valley, or the streams of the Grand Tetons.

Think about this Montanans... As there would be no more hunting, or fishing, because the wildlife would have died off or been poisoned. Can you imagine the smell of decay as the forests wilt and no wildflowers ever came up again in spring.

This is what those people must live with at the gulf Coast now, and Republican Politicians are siding with Big Oil. Especially our Denny Rehburg the Republican Congressman up for re-election this fall.  Those same Republican Politicians who don't give a rats ass about us hard working people, want to control the Congress and the Senate this fall. Are you gonna go ahead and vote for the Party of "NO"??

If you allow these sympathizers of big business that access, by voting for them in November you will have a disaster like this waiting in the wings for Montana. Coal Mining, to supply other states dirty energy needs, will pollute the air we breath, and the water we drink no matter which county of Montana you live in. And the only pockets who will be enriched is Big Coal Companies like Northwestern, who is already scheming to destroy our county with MSTI.

Don't let big business destroy our state! Allow our state to be protected for your grandchildren, with thoughtful, smart people by keeping/ putting the Democrats in power. Otherwise we will not see clean technology save our lands with wind and solar energy for our future generations.

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