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    Posted August 26, 2011 by
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    BATTLE CREEK, Michigan

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    Kalamazoo River Oil Spill Disaster - 26 Aug 2011 UPDATE

     

    Oily Creek (Battle Creek) Michigan sends it greetings... So it's been a busy busy week,  trying to help some of the people, here in town that apparently have been forgotten by a certain multi national, billion dollar or trillion $ pipeline company.  (ENBRIDGE) ENB, EEP, EEQ AND ENF.

           I have been in touch with several of the residents who attendend the Battle Creek Oil Spill Group on Facebook meeting at a local resturant/ pub last sunday... You see when a bunch of people get together it is amazing what you find out.

        I have mainly written about people that live near me... but this meeting put me in touch with more people up and down the river... People who are ill, or their children are ill... or their pets and animals are ill.

          So I have been talking with some highly connected people and trying to figure out what to do ??? It has been difficult to deal with the residents where I live... but how could I turn my back on people who left me notes saying Please help me my children are sick... I can't ...I was not raised to turn my back on people who need help. You do not screw the poor in a town where Sojourner Truth lived...

        So I will help them find doctors who know something about oil toxicity and chemical poisoning.  I will help them find lawyers who know  about toxic torts.. ( apparently the only time big energy companies  give a darn)   I will network,  I will yell, I will post signs and hold meetings until the people in this city, county, state and nation wake up.

        A year ago I was just a retired photographer living my quiet little life... Now I will be the biggest pain in a certain part of a certain companies lower posterior.

        Yes Enbridge... I am talking to you... if you thought I have been a pain in the last year... I was being quiet....

        Tommorow  I meet with the group from Texas who are going to Washington DC to get arrested.... Here is one of their youtube videos ... They want to see what a spill could do to their land and water if they had a spill on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline (not Enbridge).

           http://youtu.be/AFXei1ol-hA

        Watch out  Big Oil / Big Energy... we the people will stand up...as we were taught by Martin Luther King and Sojourner Truth...we will take care of our neighbors and friends. AND TO THE 2000 people getting arrested in Washington DC... Thank you from Oily Creek. ... and stay tuned... more from Oily Creek to come...

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