It is with total and utter disgust and amazement that I read an article on CNN.com where officials from the Louisianna Environmental Quality Department outright admitted that pumping untreated toxic flood waters from the ravaged city of New Orleans into the lake, the river and the ocean, will kill the wildlife in those regions and poison those water sources.
Not only was this admission made on a national news source, but what came next was even more shocking!!! These same officials felt that it would take too long to build treatment plants for all the pumping stations!!! That people were more concerned about drying out an un-inhabitable city that may not be ready to receive humans or animals for up to 6 months to a year or more later, than about the health of wildlife, waterfowl, fish, and human health!!!!
The officials of the State of Louisianna's DEQ are bringing in what could amount to an international human/wildlife health crisis spanning from the Gulf of Mexico, through the southern states, and following the Mississippi river all the way up as far as a poisoned fish can swim to the Great Lakes, conceivably causing the poisoning and deaths of Canadian wildlife and humans alike. Then following the Gulf of Mexico through the Caribbean and down into the Mexican areas and the northern countries of South America!!!
We MUST stand up and cry out! I am not a Greenpeacer, I am not a tree hugger, I don't try to force selective logging or prevent food fishing, so don't brand me as an environmentalist. But if you value your health and that of the wildlife around you, I urge you!!!
Contact your politicians, contact your environmental groups, contact your radio stations, tv stations, newspapers, bombard the Louisanna DEQ, the pumping that is going on has no doubt already caused a significant amount of poisoning already.
The trees are dieing in New Orleans, there have been 5 cholera deaths, and this isn't even the tip of the iceburg folks!!!! If the flood waters are so contaminated as to kill the trees, and trees are much hardier than people when it comes to this sort of thing, then imagine how quickly it will affect the wildlife and human consumption by anyone needing the water from the lake, the river, or the Gulf of Mexico!!!
Here are two sources of newspaper contacts:
http://www.cfte.org/critics/newspapers.asphttp://www.mondotimes.com/Please make your voices heard! Let's try to reduce the coming health disaster if anyone will listen!!!!!
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