BP Oil Spill Witness: Kindra Arnesen

(10AM EST – promoted by Nightprowlkitty)

Kindra Arnesen is part of a husband and wife fishing & shrimping team that made their living off the coast of Louisiana until the blowout of the BP Deepwater Horizon well destroyed their livelihood.   They then tried working for BP as part of the cleanup.   What do you do if you see your young child on shore getting so sick from the fumes you have no choice but to try to take her away from this ?  What do you do when you see workers told not to use respirators, and fish dying ?  This is her story.

This was originally posted on

http://GulfEmergencySummit.org

and it may be also seen here:

http://www.sott.net/articles/s…

partial transcipt highlights: (I am having trouble with some of this, due to sound quality, incomplete)

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{{{   BP says about the clean up “We need to cut costs”

Ponies and balloons means “heads up,” when an official shows up. Happens everyday watched it seen it don’t agree with it.

Health issues sat thru endless hours of meetings w/ BP, Coast Guard OSHA, in order to obtain a respirator, but EPA is doing their monitoring, so everything is “great.”

There is an OSHA act somewhere that volunteers can wear their own respirators, but BP has TAKEN OVER OUR GULF They are here in charge of this response. BP’s rules are that you have to be properly trained to wear a respirator, but everything’s okay, so they don’t need to wear a respirator, and guess what if you don’t follow BP’s rules, you don’t have a job, that’s what they told me.

OSHA Blaming heat exhaustion, or boats spraying PINE SOL over their boats, for the sickness on the 4 boats. I’ve been on boats all my life, we take care of our boats. What about 9/11, I asked him ? They are trying to blame them.

He actually pointed the finger at our NY firefighters , and pointed the finger at them, people who are dying a slow death, from poisons, and said, when we there, we followed them around with the respirators, they said, “we’re not wearing the respirators. We’re looking for our friends.” Trained firefighters in NY ? Are you serious ?

My child is breaking out in 4 rashes. I took her away, she cleared up, I brought her back, she broke out again,

Fishing is already very highly regulated.  We have 7 fishing permits and don’t have anywhere else to go. we provide a food source for our country, a natural way to feed people, if anyone knows how to do this now would they tell me?

what is going on here are we going to roll over and let ourselves be poisoned?

(she describes boating for miles along the shoreline, with oil off the coastline, and seeing no responders. And seeing schools of fish dying in the water, hundreds and hundreds of them.  )

“Yes there is a media blackout. ”

“the bottom line is , if this country does not step up and stop this, it will destroy a third of the world’s oceans, everything is connected. enough is enough”    }}}

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– Kindra Arneson ,  Gulfemergencysummit.org