Banned Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster

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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they became a symbol of the government’s inept response to that disaster: the 120,000 or so trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to people who had lost their homes.

The trailers were discovered to have such high levels of formaldehyde that the government banned them from ever being used for long-term housing again.
Some of the trailers, though, are getting a second life amid the latest disaster here — as living quarters for workers involved with the cleanup of the oil spill.





http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/us/01trailers.html?_r=1



Way to go ... and because that is not enough:


Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead


Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this oil spill that many scientists are warning us of, and now it has been reported on CNN that the vast majority of those who worked to clean up the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska are now dead. Yes, you read that correctly. Almost all of them are dead.
In fact, the expert that CNN had on said that the life expectancy for those who worked to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill is only about 51 years.

Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead



Maybe let some professionals handle it and not some freaking civilian who have no clue nor the money to protect themself from stuff like this?
W/E just more and more fail each day for the oil spill. Lets hope that this stuff will chopp some heads of and tbh i want to see obamas first for beeing totally stupid jumping from side to side not telling the truth and his way to blame others for his own faults.

For me this shows once again that Obama was only good to talk and motivate ppl but what he made beside health care is just plain and simple nothing. Fail president is fail!
 


b_sun said:
Clearly, the oil spill is Obama's fault. What a dick.
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read up man

it was his administration that failed to check and if you tell me "he didn't know" then its his fault once again. In germany he would be out of his job including all the guys involved.

Plus he is the one talking how the disaster should be handled. Telling BP what to do and telling it is now "his job to take care of" and yet he failed badly at every single point.

There is a reason why goverments have to check for stuff like this because if they fail it couses damage that is beyond some income shortage.


Its just another point on the fail list of Obama.

You can discuss as much as you want but when a president tells "I take care" and then does nothing but shit talk then there is something wrong ...
 
In an April hearing, members of the House Energy Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection raised concerns that the trailers would end up being used for housing. More than 100,000 trailers have been sold so far in public auctions.

The trailers are “not intended to be used as housing,” said David Garratt, FEMA’s associate administrator for mission support. “Subsequent owners must continue to similarly inform subsequent buyers for the life of the unit.”
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Standing in a small field surrounded by a new shipment of the trailers, Mr. Mason declined to say whether he informed buyers of the formaldehyde risks or kept warning labels on the trailers.

One of Mr. Mason’s trailers, shown to a reporter, had an overpowering smell of formaldehyde inside and none of the required placards on the outside or inside indicating the formaldehyde risk or that it was not supposed to be used for housing.
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Bottom line? FEMA is not providing these trailers - Private companies that bought the trailers are skirting the rules, and not informing buyers.

Clearly Obama's fault. Maybe the government should REGULATE THESE PRIVATE COMPANIES more...
thekaine said:
Maybe let some professionals handle it and not some freaking civilian who have no clue nor the money to protect themself from stuff like this?
W/E just more and more fail each day for the oil spill. Lets hope that this stuff will chopp some heads of and tbh i want to see obamas first for beeing totally stupid jumping from side to side not telling the truth and his way to blame others for his own faults.
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The government isn't running the cleanup, BP is. They're the professionals, no? The people who BP is hiring aren't being forced to do anything. Or should the government increase regulation/control of a private company, and TAKE OVER the efforts?

Holy shit, the hypocrisy is ridiculous.
 
Blaming Obama for what exactly? He's the president, he should delegate authority to others to handle this issue, not get stuck in it himself.

Regulate the oil clean-up crew so that nobody can skirt the law and hire cheap unregulated labor.

Regulate their housing health and safety measures so that these suckers don't die young.

If we want the hired hands to be handled only by BP, at least let them know of the health risks and risk of dying early. Again, regulation.

Make BP foot the bill.
 
johu said:
Bottom line? FEMA is not providing these trailers - Private companies that bought the trailers are skirting the rules, and not informing buyers.

Clearly Obama's fault. Maybe the government should REGULATE THESE PRIVATE COMPANIES more...
The government isn't running the cleanup, BP is. They're the professionals, no? The people who BP is hiring aren't being forced to do anything. Or should the government increase regulation/control of a private company, and TAKE OVER the efforts?

Holy shit, the hypocrisy is ridiculous.
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Wow there comes the US mentallity once again.

What did the GOV fucking THINK when they sold them? That they are going to PAY TO GET THIS CONTAMINATES trailers away?

They were well aware that this will be sold to others and yet they decided fuck it lets just move the problem to the next person. A bit common sence would go along way actually!


And OFC BP is cleaning cuz if the GOV would do like Obama said they would fail even more! So there is this president sitting in his office telling the nation how freaking bad BP sucks and that that he will fucking personal take care of the problem. And all he does is telling BP "hey guys clean up and pay for it". Fucking awesome job! Then he should just have his mouth shut. But hey then someone would think about why this happened. And why there are regulations when companys are not controlled to make sure they are paying attention to it. So its better to tell the world fuck BP so no one is actually paying attention on what his administration was doing around this.

And WTF is this shit you talking about?

I told ya OBAMA TOLD HE IS TAKING OVER! And yet he does nothing ...
Thats the whole point that he is saying it's HIS JOB ...


Btw just keep in mind you still need a approval to build a rig in the ocean. And that stuff like this can happen have been proven many times and what kind of damage oil does to the enviroment should be known also.
But yet the gov is going on with telling those oil industry build more rigs get us more oil no need to put serious effort in new ways to get energy...

 
Those trailers are less lethal then the rednecks they put in them. Eventually those trailers would be surrounded by junk cars dripping toxins into the ground anyways. Think of the cumulative effect of years of that shit going on? And that's not to mention all the dumbass ways people come up with to hook up oil and kerosene storage tanks for heating those trailers - spills happening all the time. Course, I'm one to talk - I've got a transmission draining in my bathtub right now ...
 
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