A recent film, originally airing April 22nd on Discovery Planet Green, documents the impact of the oil spill on Gulf residents…

“You go out in the water and think everything’s okay, but it’s not. You close your eyes and you don’t hear any seagulls, there’s no fish jumping.”

“I’ve been in the bayou my whole life, and I ain’t ever seen so much dead stuff as I have the past six months.”

“They smiled and they looked at us and said we’re going to take care of you, we’re going to pay all legitimate claims. That was their mantra back in those days…I sent them pages of every cancellation, every date and every name, what each trip was worth and they sent me twelve percent of its value. Don’t tell me you’re going to make me whole and then send me twelve percent.”

“This is serious, they have brought destruction, they have brought pain on all of us.”

“We can’t go somewhere else. We’re stuck, we’re stuck in limbo.”

“It’s not just about industry, I grew up here, all my friends are here, everybody here knows everyone. If we go somewhere else, we’ll know no one. It’s a whole social shock, it’s not just financial. People don’t get that part of it.”

“What bothers me the most is the distinct possibility we will cease to be.”

“Time for everybody to stand up and fight for our land.”

“We can carry this message to the rest of the nation, they have a vested interest in seeing south Louisiana continue to be. It’s morally the right thing to do, politically I think it’s the right thing to do and environmentally, I know it’s the right thing to do.”

Have a nice day.