When I first heard of Bucket Brigade I immediately thought of people going around with buckets and sampling water. But what was interesting to me was that these are actually buckets used for sampling air. I never thought that one would have access to measuring the quality of the air in their environment. This was pleasing to know because depending on what you breathe in, could be very detrimental to your health. But now my question is, when you find out that your air quality is unsatisfactory due to the waste of a refinery, do you get immediate attention once you bring attention to this situation? I think that the government should make a law banning contractors the right to build refineries in areas where there are residents, or they shouldn’t build houses near an oil refinery. this way no one is put in a conflicting situation.
What I also found quite shocking was the 17 refineries in Louisiana have had an accidents everyday since 2005. At that point I would no longer consider these accidents because these are more like a common occurrence. I would like to know what happened in 2005 that triggered all of these so-called accidents. Why hasn’t the government started to place fines on these 30 billion dollar? Its costs just as much if not more to clean up these accidents, so why not use the money spent for cleaning up, from the polluters themselves. They should not pay the amount necessary for cleanup purposes only, but extra as well. I am a firm believer in that once you begin to interfere with one’s income or profit then you decrease the amount of mistakes being made.
As a new resident of this state I find this website very informative and it rises awareness on very important issues that should have already been solved.
