Author Archives: christmaskynisha

Video
0

OH REALLY?!!!

“With our partner in Brazil, we’re also producing ethanol, a biofuel made from renewable sugar cane.” -Shell

I thought I would share this with you guys. As I was doing my hair and watching tv, this shell commerical came on. Not paying attention, but listening to the tv; all I heard was Shell and Sugar Cane. All I could do was laugh because I do not think there is a better way of saying from “plantation to plant”. I am in disbelief because their are children running around in the video but do not have any idea what is going on. The poor children and their families is all I can think about because they are at risk.

0

HELP THE CHILDREN

|

SHELL IS WRONG NO MATTTER WHICH WAY YOU CROSS IT, I don’t care if you Japanese to smell this stuff all the time is just wrong for people to inhale this. And I know it’s not healthy, that common sense. But what can a lot of people do, but smell it, like myself, and pray to God you don’t get sick. – Anyomous Interviewee April 18, 2013

0

1977 Explosion

|

“When it blew, it knocked me out of bed,” reported Adam Mashia, 65 year-old resident of Destrehan, Louisiana, who lived within a mile of the plant. Mashia said there were two “very, very loud,” successive explosions, and he could see a little smoke, then a lot of flames. “It knocked me to the floor, and as I was getting up, it knocked me down again.” Mashia eventually made his way to Destrehan High School for shelter, along with about 50 others from the area. Another local resident, Adam Migliore, who lived only three blocks from the plant said, “it blew both of the front doors in, and the deadbolts took the frames out.” Migliore’s mother, sleeping in the bedroom, believes she survived only because one of the posts on her four-poster bed stopped a flying door from hitting her.”

-Melinda Shelton, “Shocked Norco Residents Return to Pick Up Pieces,” Morning Advocate, May 6, 1988, p. 1-A; and, Ron Thibodeaux and Lisa Frazier, “Explosion” http://gcmonitor.org/downloads/shellchap4.pdf

0

We want children!

|

“A life-long resident of Cancer Alley expressed that “a lot of young women are suffering with uterine cancer and have had many many miscarriages, miscarriage after miscarriage after miscarriage. I’m wondering if the chemicals and the un-cleanliness of the environment has contributed to that.”

-Lerner, Steve. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Environmental Corridor. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005.