Thursday, December 23, 2010

Times Picayune: “Many” Gulf residents are “experiencing serious physical” problems

Florida Oil Spill Law

December 22nd, 2010

Gulf residents, businesses say they’re still suffering from BP oil spill effects, Times-Picayune, December 22, 2010

Spokespeople for the United Houma Nation in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes and Vietnamese-American residents of Bayou La Batre, Ala., said residents are experiencing severe stress from the loss of their livelihood.

Many are experiencing serious physical and mental health problems. …

The stress is showing up as physical and mental health problems, [Maryal Mewherter, a spokeswoman for Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing] said, including headaches, intestinal problems, loss of appetite, depression and anger. …

[Dan Favre, a spokesman for the Gulf Restoration Network, a New Orleans-based environmental group] said those kinds of problems faced by Gulf Coast residents aren’t resonating in Washington…

Read the report here.

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