Ponies & Balloons

This video clip is from a speech given by Kindra Arnesen. Please watch it and pass it along to everyone you know. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99s1O6K1UvI Her comment about "Ponies & Ballons" is a sad reality.



I am seeing this first hand here in the Gulf Shores area. Today, I visited the Fort Morgan area, extreme western tip of the peninsula, (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=map+of+fort+morgan+alabama&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Fort+Morgan,+AL&gl=us&ei=ww81TL3jCsL38AaBhdTJCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CB0Q8gEwAA),
and saw first hand that no clean up had been done. I asked some of the tourists on the beach, and they confirmed no clean up crews had been seen in 10 days.

The clean up efforts in the Gulf Shores are being targeted towards the tourist areas, such as Orange Beach. Of course it is important to clean the highly traveled areas, but the debris and toxic waste are piling up on the beautiful shoreline of Alabama. The cleaning efforts are not enough and it is not happening fast enough. Workers sit in air conditioned vans for 45 minutes, and work for 15. Yes, it's hot, but there are areas that haven't been touched in weeks. More needs to be done, and BP needs to be held accountable. Do we really want these Pony & Balloon wranglers drilling in the Arctic?

Peace.