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Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:06.56,0:00:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:08.52,0:00:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, I'm not usually a speech-giver.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:10.60,0:00:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you guys try to bear with me; I'll try to make this as painless as possible.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:15.97,0:00:17.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To explain to you where I live,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:17.75,0:00:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am indeed the one on the very end.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:21.71,0:00:26.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am at Point 5 on Highway 23 in South Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:26.42,0:00:31.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep in mind through what I have to say, that I am the mother of a five-year-old little boy
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:31.38,0:00:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an eight-year-old little girl who look like their dad.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:35.40,0:00:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That being said, when this first happened,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:38.27,0:00:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really didn't know what to do,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:41.55,0:00:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who to ask questions to, who was going to give us answers.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:44.82,0:00:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first day we were introduced to anyone from BP, they came into our building and said:
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:50.92,0:00:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}BP does business right.{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:54.63,0:00:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah! Can you believe that?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:56.59,0:01:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}BP does business right and we're here to take care of everything, folks.{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:01.04,0:01:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, 61 days later, that's a joke, to say the least.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:07.50,0:01:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just to give you guys kind of a perspective of where I've been:
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:10.94,0:01:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four weeks ago, I stood up at a town hall meeting and I indeed did pin down all involved
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:15.63,0:01:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had them stuttering by the end of their speech.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:19.38,0:01:24.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At any rate, I was invited the following week to go behind "enemy lines".
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:25.45,0:01:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They gave me, of all people, security clearance to go into the base of operations
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:29.64,0:01:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meetings in Venice, Louisiana.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:31.10,0:01:36.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,8 A.M., open door invitation to sit like a fly on the wall. Can you believe it?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:36.91,0:01:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really going on.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:38.57,0:01:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They also gave me security clearance to go into the Homeland Incident Command Post
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:42.15,0:01:44.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is over the entire region of Louisiana.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:44.51,0:01:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been in Coast Guard planes all the way out to the site itself.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:47.60,0:01:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Helicopters. Boat rides.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:49.40,0:01:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have been everywhere anybody could ever want to go
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:52.82,0:01:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to really get an inside look as to what's going on.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:01:55.90,0:02:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I want to start by telling you guys that I am not at all impressed.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:01.61,0:02:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone told me this morning that they thought I had crossed over.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:05.16,0:02:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I picked a team a long time ago.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:08.17,0:02:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father was a commercial fisherman and my husband's a commercial fisherman.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:11.84,0:02:15.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every man that I've even known, loved, and respected is on the water.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:15.70,0:02:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're good men.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:17.85,0:02:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At any rate, for the past week I've heard in the ops meeting:
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:22.57,0:02:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}We need to cut cost.{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:26.73,0:02:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, that is what they said, that they need to cut cost.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:32.90,0:02:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I almost came out of my chair the first time I heard it.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:34.97,0:02:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm trying to stay where I am because someone has to be on the inside
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:39.02,0:02:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,overlooking and seeing as to what's going on around.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:42.30,0:02:47.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That being said, where I've seen {\i1}cutting costs{\i0} is quite unfortunate.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:47.57,0:02:50.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we call, in Venice, what they call...
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:50.59,0:02:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First we've gotta understand this phrase: {\i1}ponies and balloons{\i0}.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:54.43,0:02:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the only place I've ever seen {\i1}ponies and balloons{\i0} is at a circus. Right?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:02:59.41,0:03:04.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At any rate, about a week-and-a-half in, I learned what {\i1}ponies and balloons{\i0} meant.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:04.92,0:03:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Ponies and balloons{\i0} means that every time an official is headed anywhere near here,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:10.35,0:03:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they get a heads-up.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:12.54,0:03:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All assets are deployed into the hardest hit areas.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:17.80,0:03:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The official comes in, flies over, {\i1}good job, fellas{\i0}, pats ‘em on the back.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:23.06,0:03:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When that official disappears out of the hardest hit area,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:25.96,0:03:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so does 75 to 80 percent of the response.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:30.43,0:03:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's happening. It's happening every day. I'm watching it.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:35.42,0:03:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm seeing it.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:37.06,0:03:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't agree with it. Anyone in this room's not gonna agree with it.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:40.06,0:03:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone in our great nation's not gonna agree with it.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:42.46,0:03:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are expendable to these people.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:45.32,0:03:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do not matter.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:48.04,0:03:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I'm gonna get off that and I'm sorry I talk in circles,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:50.90,0:03:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that's the coonass in me. As y'all follow me, then just let me know.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:03:55.79,0:04:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At any rate, I'm gonna go into the health issues for a moment, if you don't mind.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:01.24,0:04:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sat through endless hours of meetings with BP's safety officers.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:07.98,0:04:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sat through an hour and 45 minute meeting with the Coast Guard Safety Officer,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:13.02,0:04:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both in the Homeland Incident Command Post, as well as a gentleman from OSHA.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:18.49,0:04:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to obtain a respirator for our responders
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:23.28,0:04:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,— now this isn't just commercial fishermen —
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:25.15,0:04:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking about Coast Guard members, all responders,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:29.34,0:04:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people off the street, everybody involved.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:32.76,0:04:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number 1: They have to fill out an OSHA questionnaire.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:35.82,0:04:41.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number 2: They have to have a physical evaluation by a medical professional.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:42.51,0:04:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, EPA is doing air monitoring.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:46.55,0:04:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything's OK. It's great.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:50.17,0:04:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, imagine that.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:52.88,0:04:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At any rate, there is in fact some Act somewhere in OSHA's law,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:04:57.09,0:05:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that says that volunteers have a right to wear a "volunteer respirator".
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:01.58,0:05:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, as we all know, BP is taking over our Gulf.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:05.67,0:05:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BP rules right now, our Gulf, I mean...
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:07.95,0:05:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bottom line, that's who's in charge of the situation.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:10.99,0:05:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They couldn't even run their own company and they are in charge of this response!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:15.58,0:05:17.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm totally appalled!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:20.01,0:05:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They can't wear a volunteer respirator because if they're not properly trained...
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:25.36,0:05:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BP's rules are, they have to be properly trained in order to wear a respirator.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:29.20,0:05:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, BP said that they will provide the training and they will provide a respirator.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:33.83,0:05:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, everything's OK!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:36.96,0:05:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, they don't need to be trained and they don't need a respirator.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:40.23,0:05:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as far as the right to wear volunteer respiration?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:44.45,0:05:49.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Guess what? If you don't follow BP's rules, you don't have a job.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:49.73,0:05:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what they told me.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:52.07,0:05:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I asked them to discuss the seven men that were brought,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:56.02,0:05:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one by helicopter and six by ambulance...
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:05:59.35,0:06:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked them if they were at liberty to discuss that with me.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:02.11,0:06:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they said, {\i1}Yes Ma'am, we are.{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:04.39,0:06:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess these guys didn't realize who they were talking to.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:07.97,0:06:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number one response from Mr. Hayward was {\i1}food poisoning{\i0}.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:14.63,0:06:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four different boats, all in… way away from each other. {\i1}Food poisoning{\i0}.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:20.70,0:06:23.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second response was {\i1}heat exhaustion{\i0}.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:24.29,0:06:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then last Wednesday — I'm sorry, Wednesday a week ago —
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:27.51,0:06:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I sat with OSHA and BP's Safety Officer,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:30.89,0:06:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the OSHA man informed me that all four boats took Pine Sol,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:36.23,0:06:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sprayed it all over their boats, and then sat and breathed in the fumes all day long
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:41.90,0:06:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what caused the chemical poisoning.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:46.81,0:06:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hold on a second! I've been on boats all my life.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:50.06,0:06:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been with captains all over the place.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:52.30,0:06:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we spray something on our boat, we wash it right off.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:54.80,0:06:56.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If not, it eats the paint off the boat.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:56.95,0:06:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We take care of our stuff.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:06:58.87,0:07:01.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that right there was just a blatant out lie.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:01.31,0:07:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, then I asked them — I throwed one out of left field at them —
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:03.47,0:07:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said: {\i1}Well what about the people on 9/11{\i0}?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:06.25,0:07:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said: {\i1}It's funny you asked about that,{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:08.50,0:07:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Because I was working that job.{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:10.53,0:07:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}We were following them around with respirators, begging them to put them on.{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:14.66,0:07:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he actually pointed the finger at our New York Firefighters.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:20.13,0:07:21.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, he did!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:21.45,0:07:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who are dying a slow death as we sit in this room right now,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:25.34,0:07:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from chemical poisoning;
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:27.14,0:07:30.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pointing the finger at them and said that they turned around
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:30.19,0:07:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gave him the one finger salute,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:33.21,0:07:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said: {\i1}We're not wearing a respirator, we're looking for our friends.{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:37.64,0:07:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trained firefighters? In New York? Are you serious?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:42.89,0:07:46.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to just slap him in the face!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:46.69,0:07:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, I was good.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:49.52,0:07:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At any rate, you know, my children have broke out in four rashes.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:55.49,0:07:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My child broke out in a rash the first time.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:57.83,0:07:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took her to Florida for four days.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:07:59.66,0:08:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It magically cleared up.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:01.36,0:08:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I brought her back, she broke out again.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:03.20,0:08:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I left, she cleared up.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:05.94,0:08:08.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now today, she's broke out again.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:08.27,0:08:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to mention that my beautiful, healthy, straight-A student,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:13.29,0:08:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gorgeous daughter has a double ear infection, upper respiratory problems.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:18.83,0:08:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I left and went to Baton Rouge and as I drove back home:
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:22.24,0:08:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clearing the throat, the stickiness, the upper respiratory irritation.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:26.73,0:08:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the bottom line here is: this morning I contacted
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:30.28,0:08:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Miss Marla Cooper, who is District 9 Councilwoman for Plaquemines Parish.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:34.92,0:08:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Miss Marla has three grandchildren in our area
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:38.46,0:08:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she's just a great grandparent and a good mom. And I told her:
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:41.58,0:08:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Miss Marla, we have got to call an evacuation of our area.{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:45.69,0:08:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can not allow our citizens to sit like we're out in the middle of the...
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:50.78,0:08:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are! This stuff's on all three sides of my home!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:54.96,0:08:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I walk outside and there's a haze.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:57.54,0:08:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're called {\i1}bad air days.{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:08:59.15,0:09:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\i1}Folks, stay inside, put your air conditioning on recirculation. Everything's just fine!{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:03.49,0:09:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, why would we need to lock ourselves up in our house?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:05.31,0:09:07.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you really think that's gonna cut it?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:07.21,0:09:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you really think that's gonna make the situation better?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:10.42,0:09:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, it's not!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:11.75,0:09:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do you think air comes from that's in  the house?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:13.60,0:09:15.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Outside the house.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:15.42,0:09:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people, they never cease to amaze me.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:21.36,0:09:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The lack of humanity, here.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:23.58,0:09:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that my Parish only makes up two percent of Louisiana's population,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:27.15,0:09:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but does that make my people expendable?!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:31.42,0:09:34.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is unacceptable!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:35.29,0:09:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are slowly poisoning every person that I've ever been close to in my entire life
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:41.48,0:09:44.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm standing here saying, {\i1}no more{\i0}!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:44.28,0:09:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, if I ruffle some feathers, and make some people mad,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:46.64,0:09:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so be it. I don't care.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:49.07,0:09:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My people are more important to me than {\i1}their bottom line{\i0}.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:53.79,0:09:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is {\i1}my bottom line{\i0}.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:09:56.14,0:10:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So basically, this whole {\i1}ponies and balloons{\i0} act...
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:03.02,0:10:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If someone does not come in and properly oversee this response...
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:07.07,0:10:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our marsh now is being used as a boom,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:10.51,0:10:13.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an [unclear] boom, a big, giant sponge.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:13.56,0:10:17.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's on both sides of us. It will fill up, it is filling up, constantly.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:17.74,0:10:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have heavy, heavy crude penetrating our marsh
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:19.84,0:10:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all over the place right now as we speak.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:22.19,0:10:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They deploy, and then they pull ‘em back in when a politician comes in,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:25.80,0:10:27.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is not acceptable!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:27.36,0:10:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not cleaning it up; they're covering it up!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:31.87,0:10:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is... We're barely into this.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:34.08,0:10:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This could go on for years and years and they are already cutting costs!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:37.17,0:10:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cutting costs, cutting corners, and taking shortcuts
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:39.86,0:10:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is why we're all sitting in this room today.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:42.66,0:10:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enough is enough!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:46.64,0:10:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, as far as EPA, OSHA, NOAA, BP and Federal Government,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:53.24,0:10:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they... Every one of them's in collaboration with each other.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:56.26,0:10:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That comes from someone at the top of NOAA.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:10:59.31,0:11:01.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the kind of people I've been talking to.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:01.47,0:11:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That came from someone at the top of NOAA,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:03.66,0:11:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they're all in collaboration with BP.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:06.54,0:11:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you serious!?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:08.03,0:11:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who do these people work for?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:09.92,0:11:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought these were our agencies to protect our better interests,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:13.50,0:11:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our world, our Earth, our lives and what is going on here?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:19.88,0:11:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we that dependent upon these banks,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:24.87,0:11:31.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to just roll over and let them poison our world, and our people in it?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:31.43,0:11:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is unacceptable!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:32.93,0:11:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A week after this started they want to say: {\i1}Nothing's going on. Nothing's dying{\i0}?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:36.92,0:11:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A week after this story, I traveled 70 miles east of the original site.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:41.54,0:11:44.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was these shells floating all over the top of the water.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:44.29,0:11:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of thousands of them. They were empty because they were dead.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:47.05,0:11:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never seen a shell float in my life.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:49.85,0:11:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dead. A week after.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:51.79,0:11:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four weeks ago when the oil was trajected to hit the west side of our peninsula,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:56.21,0:11:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was so mad after I went down to Pascaloocha
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:11:58.72,0:12:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and seeing what wasn't being done there,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:00.61,0:12:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I got in my boat — my dime, my time — and I took a trip.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:03.63,0:12:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was like Fox national news on my boat.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:06.17,0:12:13.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I traveled from Red Pass 10 mile... to Four Bayous, about 10 miles, the east side of Grand Isle.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:13.72,0:12:17.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the oil was trajected to hit that side of the peninsula [unclear].
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:17.72,0:12:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,30 miles! I did not run into one responder!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:21.46,0:12:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did not run into one piece of boom, hard or soft.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:25.46,0:12:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,150 feet of sandbags on a 30 mile stretch of shoreline.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:30.26,0:12:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is unacceptable!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:31.89,0:12:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I decided on the way back, well let me just
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:34.02,0:12:36.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go out on the coast a little bit and see what's going on.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:36.52,0:12:39.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ran into oil 3/4 of a mile off our coast.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:39.83,0:12:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not sheen. Crude.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:44.46,0:12:47.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I'm travelling along back towards Red Pass,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:47.23,0:12:50.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked over the Gulf and I notice that there's big swarms of birds.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:50.34,0:12:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not unusual. I figured they was diving on bait.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:52.68,0:12:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what where they diving into oil sheen?
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:55.00,0:12:56.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because birds don't know any better.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:12:57.75,0:13:00.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We travelled out towards the birds. I wanted to see what they were diving into.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:00.91,0:13:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was... I want to know.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:03.13,0:13:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we get out to the birds... I don't know if you've been on the water much,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:05.87,0:13:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even if you've seen a big school of fish.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:07.67,0:13:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have like a boil in the water.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:09.85,0:13:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks like a pot boiling.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:11.60,0:13:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fish boil the water; it moves.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:13.86,0:13:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we drift into it, it's big Bull Reds
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:16.83,0:13:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their mouths open, on top of the water,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:20.03,0:13:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laying sideways, swimming upside down in a circle.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:23.64,0:13:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, hundreds of thousands of them, school after school after school.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:27.79,0:13:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were dying.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:29.31,0:13:34.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were so disoriented that they were running into the side of my boat.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:34.65,0:13:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[unclear question from the audience]
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:36.64,0:13:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a real good question.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:38.12,0:13:40.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fox national news swears it's on their website,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:40.43,0:13:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I've search it up and down. I've even...
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:42.51,0:13:45.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what? I've got the camera man's phone number in my purse right there.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:45.58,0:13:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can call him after and find out exactly where it's at.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:48.08,0:13:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've called and asked them for it over and over again,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:52.07,0:13:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they won't give it to me.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:55.09,0:13:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what? Everybody is saying: {\i1}a media blackout, a media blackout.{\i0}
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:13:58.43,0:14:00.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes ma'am, there is a media blackout.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:00.93,0:14:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sydney, Australia's {\i1}60 minutes{\i0} came over and they did a real nice piece.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:05.70,0:14:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I watched it on their website. The transcript is still there.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:09.43,0:14:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,24 hours after the video hit the website, it disappeared.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:14.72,0:14:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, as far as {\i1}the fisherman can catch shrimp elsewhere{\i0} comment,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:18.90,0:14:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to make something real clear.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:21.40,0:14:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have bee fighting imports and regulations for the last 20 years.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:27.74,0:14:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have regulated us to the point as commercial fisherman,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:31.05,0:14:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that my husband personally has seven different permits.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:34.28,0:14:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only thing that my husband does not do is oyster.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:37.92,0:14:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, if there's shrimp somewhere else, or we can use gill net
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:41.04,0:14:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whatever we need to do in order to provide a food source for this country,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:45.98,0:14:48.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a natural way to feed people,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:48.89,0:14:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then somebody point me in that direction and let me know where it is,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:51.48,0:14:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I've looked all over the place.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:53.80,0:14:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came back here four-and-a-half years ago and rebuilt on dirt
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:56.06,0:14:58.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this is my home and I love Louisiana .
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:14:58.71,0:15:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I live right out in the middle of nowhere in the boondocks.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:15:02.00,0:15:08.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The bottom line here is, that if the country does not stand up and say: {\i1}no more{\i0}...
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:15:08.82,0:15:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must take action. We cannot sit back.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:15:12.66,0:15:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if this stuff does not stop, guys, this is gonna go global.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:15:16.06,0:15:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will destroy one-third of the world's water. Bank on it!
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:15:22.21,0:15:24.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they do not stop this — every ocean is connected —
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:15:24.81,0:15:26.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will go on and on and on.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:15:26.93,0:15:29.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As my daughter says: {\i1}infinity plus two{\i0}.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:15:30.46,0:15:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enough's enough.
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:15:32.71,0:15:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll take any questions after. Thank you for listening.