12 Days of Christmas by Coastal Justice

12 Days of Christmas 

(coastal justice style)

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On the first day of Christmas, BP gave to me
    a great big tar ball .

On the second day of Christmas, BP gave to me
    Two dead turtles and a great big tar ball.

    On the third day of Christmas, BP gave to me
    3 Dead dolphins, Two dead turtles , a great big tar ball.

On the fourth day of  Christmas, BP gave to me
    Four oily beaches ,  3 Dead dolphins ,Two dead turtles ,
 a great big tar ball.

On the fifth day of Christmas, BP gave to me
Five Oiled Pelicans, Four oily beaches , 3 Dead dolphins , Two dead turtles ,
and a great big tar ball.

 On the sixth day of Christmas, BP gave to me
Six MDEQ guys a lying, Five Oiled Pelicans,
 Four oily beaches ,
3 Dead dolphins , Two dead turtles, and a great big tar ball.

On the seventh day of Christmas, BP gave to me
    Seven toxic chemicals in my body, Six MDEQ guys a lying, Five Oiled Pelicans, Four oily beaches , 3 Dead dolphins ,Two dead turtles, and a great
 big tar ball.

On the eighth day of Christmas, BP gave to me
    Eight different medical diagnoses they can not explain
 , Six MDEQ guys a lying, Five
Oiled Pelicans, Four oily
beaches , 3 Dead dolphins ,Two dead turtles, and a great big tar ball.

On the ninth day of Christmas, BP gave to me
  Nine reasons for denial from the GCCF,  Eight different
medical diagnoses
 they can not explain , Six
MDEQ guys a lying, Five Oiled
 Pelicans, Four oily beaches ,
 3 Dead dolphins ,Two dead
turtles, and a great big tar ball.

On the tenth day of Christmas, BP gave to me
Ten County workers covering up toxic beaches, Nine reasons for denial from the GCCF,  Eight different medical diagnoses
 they can not explain , Six
MDEQ guys a lying, Five
Oiled Pelicans,Four oily beaches , 3 Dead dolphins ,Two dead turtles, and a great big tar ball.

On the eleventh day of Christmas, BP gave to me
Eleven C-130's flying over my
 house. Ten County workers
covering up toxic beaches,
Nine reasons for denial from the GCCF,  Eight different medical diagnoses they can not explain. Six MDEQ guys a
 lying, Five Oiled Pelicans,
Four oily beaches , 3 Dead
dolphins ,Two dead turtles, and a great big tar ball.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, BP gave to me
Twelve different propaganda BP videos saying all is great on the coast when its not..
Eleven C-130's flying over my house. Ten County workers covering up toxic beaches, Nine reasons for denial from the GCCF,  Eight different
medical diagnoses they can
not explain , Six MDEQ
guys a lying, Five Oiled
Pelicans,Four oily beaches , 3 Dead dolphins ,Two dead turtles, and a great big tar ball!!!!

Merry Christmas to all of us on the Gulf Coast and all of our supporters world wide trying to help us expose the truth and make a change. 

Prayers and Thoughts are with those lives have been effected by BP's April 2010 Disaster that is still ongoing.

Prayers are with the lives of the families of the men, whom lost their lives in this tragedy as well. Let us not forget those families as well as all the rest of us suffering day to day by this Catasrophe that is killing more lives as well as our GULF.

It is time to update

I am back to update my blog as need be. Now with this Ditch situation going on in Hancock County and no telling where else on the Gulf Coast since Tropical Storm Lee, I am ticked off more then ever and someone needs to do something about this situation. People are getting sick and complaining of symptoms all related to chemical and exposure to crude oil. These people have no choice, they live and work in these communities.

Coastal Justice You Tube Channel

A perfect example of the issues here on the GULF and what they are NOT doing about it!

This is just a example of what we are facing down here on the Gulf Coast. The below statement is from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Beach monitoring program. Now we all know this beach should be closed if there is any remote chance contact could possibly make someone ill.... Why are they not closing these beaches??? Tourism and $$$$ 

So they would rather risk the health of innocent uninformed residents as well as tourist and make some money off of them then to save their health and possibly save lives. 

What is wrong with this picture???

 

Photo by: Laurel Lockamy

 

MDEQ ISSUES WATER CONTACT ADVISORY FOR LOCATION IN JACKSON COUNTY

(JACKSON, Miss.) --

     The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
(MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program issued a water contact
advisory today for a sampling station in Jackson County.   This segment of beach

is not closed; however, there may be an increased risk of illness

associated with swimming in that area. MDEQ is working closely with local

officials to advise residents that the water in the following location may

have high bacteria levels:

●Station 19 -- Pascagoula Beach West near Oliver Street in Pascagoula.

When water samples show that levels are safe for human contact, the
advisory will be lifted. The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, which
performs water sampling of the Mississippi Gulf Coast beaches for MDEQ,
notifies the agency when an area has returned to acceptable levels.

Additionally, swimmers are reminded that the Beach Task Force has a
standing recommendation that swimming not occur during or within 24 hours
of a significant rainfall event.

We the citizens of Lousiana and Mississippi have a much different story to tell you...By: Laurel Lockamy Coast

We the citizens of Lousiana and Mississippi have a much different story to tell you...By: Laurel Lockamy Coast 


Please read and share with as many as you can. Remember we are all the media on the coast. Laurel you do awesome work and we all thank you for what your doing.

Thanks,
Laurie @ Coastal Justice

Oil spill may have indirect role in dolphin deaths

Oil spill may have indirect role in dolphin deaths

The reality of it all through the opinion of a local

Dear fellow Mississippi Gulf Coast residents as well as welcomed visitors of all ages,

I myself am a almost 38 year resident of our unique Hancock County. We have grown so much over the past I would say 20 years. We have overcome numerous storms and the worst Hurricane to hit our Coast. Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005 practically wiped our city off the map as well as destroying Bay St. Louis (my hometown). We have started recovery and things were and still are coming back. Things were getting better day by day. Our Main Street District is coming back beautifully. Old Town Bay St. Louis, the train depot area with our new duck pond is by far an awesome addition to our community. Holly Hester Lemoyne - Raymond and her new cafe Cypress Cafe is also a great asset to the area surrounding Old Town and the new Duck Pond.

We have begun to overcome Hurricane Katrina. Our community and surrounding communities were coming back stronger and stronger until...

April 20, 2010 when the Deep Water Horizon Disaster occurred it killed 11 men. Those families’ lives and so many others will never be the same. One year later those families are still in our thoughts and prayers. It seems like only yesterday those families’ lives were destroyed and so many more lives there after were changed and destroyed and the worst is yet to come.


Tribute to the Eleven 

Our own Governor of Mississippi Haley Bourbor will not even support us and back us up. Start watching this video and see that for a fact at about 6 mins. and 20 secs. into the clip.

View Clip Here 

He states people that are sick need to go to the doctor if they are sick but the doctors do not know how to diagnose much less treat the health of everyone that is affected. Our local media does not inform or cover a portion of what they should even be covering. The top news story every night should be "Caution on beaches stay off of them due to Dead Marine Life washing up daily along with chemicals and other toxins!!!"

What makes no sense is most everyone knows the EPA allowed the use of the dispersant Corexit knowing it was illegal in other countries. So why would they allow them to dump it on us? That alone should be a warning for people on our coast, and visitors and families on our beaches and swimming in our waters. I went out just yesterday in my hometown Waveland, Ms. and photographed tar balls all throughout the sections of beach I walked. I have been witnessing this for months now and the media does not touch it. In my opinion those beaches should be closed and if we won't close them until we get it all clean and know for sure that it and what is swimming in it is safe at least warn people.

To me the value of a dollar is not what is important here. It is the health of ourselves and, the people that come down to visit our state and neighboring states, our children and all living things. That is truly what is important here.

That should be on the front page of our local newspapers. Instead we have little children swimming near dead dolphins and sea turtles.

                                                                      Credit for photo: 
                                                                      Laurel Lockamy

Now some of our beaches in Harrison County this week have been announced closed due to high levels of bacteria.

Read Story here along with my comment

Well, wouldn't you think the levels would be high all along our coast lines with dead marine life even household pets floating and washing up on our shores? As a concerned resident I just do not see why the media does not inform our people like they should about the possible and serious health impacts this could have on you and your children as well as our visitors. Why wouldn't we take time to make sure our Gulf is 100 percent safe before inviting folks to come down and possibly get ill? That in the long run would only be a devastating blow to our coast and our economy for years to come. Why not chance taking a blow to our economy for at least another year until further testing be done instead of making a bad name for ourselves down here on the coast? That could ruin us for years down the road. We as the people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and neighboring states could get a lot more respect if we took the time to inform everyone. Instead thanks to our government officials and media we will end up getting a bad name for ourselves down here on the Gulf. I as a caring Gulf Coast resident does not want to see this happen to my hometown and I am sure other Coastal residents does not want to see this either.

I spoke out at our Attorney General Jim Hood's meeting here in Waveland last month and at least we have as one community raised our level of health concerns to him and he is addressing the issue.

Residents speak up at Waveland AG Jim Hood's meeting about health concerns.

Now after seeing this news article from Mississippi Public Broadcasting we may see a glimmer of hope in our future for our health; however we have had so many broken promises this past year and have heard so many lies it is hard to get our hopes set on something we hear or see until it happens.

Myself, as well as others I know walk the beaches a few times a week to daily taking photographs. Do you know that most locals to not even know there is a problem down here. They believe what they hear and mostly they hear nothing unless they are tied into one of our internet sites informing the people. Join Coastal Justice on Facebook to be linked to many folks down here telling the true story of what is really going on.

I am far from a journalist. I am far from a professional photographer, however I am just your average citizen along with so many others that just want to get the word out because if it was not for so many of us we would not be as educated as we are to this day. Thanks to so many local residents for what they have done to help get out the word for our Mississippi Coast and our neighbors. Folks like Mrs. Shirley Tillman, Laurel Lockamy, and Lorrie Williams to name a few. And that is just our Mississippi reporters of the bunch. There is others like for example Ms. Betty Doud from Grand Isle, Louisiana that keep the news and photographs circulating. I cannot begin to thank them all.

In closing I just want to state to all my readers and anyone who comes across this blog as well as all of my Coastal Justice Facebook friends, thank you and we will not give up. We will not let them win." We are the Media" and will continue to be until the real media takes over.

Thank you all for all the work you do,

Laurie G. Lambert

Also, Please take time to check out Bridge the Gulf Project

I Am America

I am still planning on doing a video with this song...

A picture says a 1000 words...

What is it going to take ??? What else can we possibly do other then keep talking??? Something has to give!

by Coastal Justice on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 1:22pm

It just really honestly upsets me that our locals (some of them) the ones in office and in tourism or so oblivious to the fact that our beaches are so contaimated...why would they want tourist to come see this? Not what I would want to remember on my summer vacation....Whats a few dollars missing in our community for a year or so verses a life long remembrance of how you went on vacation to the Gulf Coast and saw dead turtles, dolphins and fish and the occasional dead armadillo on the not so white beaches of our Mississippi Coast. I am a life long resident. I love our community. I am all for tourism. I have worked in tourism most of my adult life. But come on what happened to common humanity?