Thank you Democracy Now! for doing this report. You are deeply appreciate. Please don't stop! I just sent this link to my insurance company that refuses to pay for my evacuation due to the Arkema explosion. They put a 1.5 perimeter as the only area that needed a mandatory evacuation though people in Baytown were also feeling the weight of the toxins in the air. Please continue to blast this situation into the public so that people can know what is really happening here.
I was born and raised just south of about 5 Superfund sites. I have more health issues than I can count, and many others over here are fighting horrible rare cancers or are being born with more birth defects than ever before. Idk what's being burnt, but I plan to try to move away from this side of town within the next few years.
I was part of the Brio Superfund in Pasadena I was born in 84 so I was about two years old when we move there and I have plenty of health issues to biggest being kidney major kidney issues as an adult as well as learning disabilities that I've had to fight through my entire life, my mom's best friend got pregnant there and had her baby her son is extremely Disturbed mentally and emotionally and you can kind of tell physically something's not right
They don't care about people, the residents. It's all about the money to them. These companies will never take responsibility for the damage they're doing to the environment and to people's health. It's only best to move because breathing in these toxic pollutants will only kill you and everyone else slowly overtime. It's unfortunate how there are so many people in Texas who are uninformed of how dangerous and deadly this is. And the residents living nearby these areas have no say in it at all. They're basically forced to deal with it or pushed to move out.
I've thought for decades many people who try to scratch out an existence in parts of Africa near to be air lifted out. Houston needs to be completely shut down and those citizens air lifted to a safer place, too. I've never been to Houston, and this remarkable video re-enforces staying away. The Sahara is mostly uninhabitable and Petro Metro looks like a death camp.
jeff harris please stay away, Houston is fine and the best place to get you ahead than the rest of America, especially ahead of California and New York. This is a bayou, the city was built around bayous and we know and deal with it. Meanwhile Californians and New Yorkers keep fleeing to Texas and Houston.
*excellent BIASED coverage. They are CNN lite. Virtue Signalling is on full display. They used all the "trigger" words....Immigrant, hispanic community getting gased etc. This guy Bryan has no clue what he is talking about
Amy thank you, for having the courage to show this hell created by Exxon & the rest of these petro criminals who must be in prison. My love to the residents.
Tillerson should know exactly what toxic chemicals are being released in the water and air and the fact that he has not made any public statement on this is deplorable.
What role does fracking and its dirty oil have on this new type of more polluting crude oil? the residents say they recently noticed the smells and THEIR throats getting worse ....When the environment gets so bad the economy and peoples daily lives are interrupted only then will our government even allow talks of climate change and immediate actions that need to be taken...GREED WILL ALWAYS WIN IN THE CORPORATE WORLD ITS BUSINESS AS USUAL .
Petro is so Retro! Get them fancy pant oil moguls all together, Ivanka and family, FOX and friends, Alex Jones and Breitbart, Betsy de Voss etc. Let's add the meat factories and gelatin producers. Make them and CEOs and stockholders live around the dinosaur juice that supports them. They will have hotels, shopping and golf courses around there instead of families that have no other alternatives who deserve to be in better areas. It'll be like a reverse buy out. We'll build a dome, the most wonderful structure anyone has ever seen and cover them up with it. Don Drumpf can still have a place he can preside over. They can keep it all to themselves. That would be a beautiful "wall".
No facts presented, all speculation. Asking people with no scientific background at all "whats in the air?" You did no research at all, you have no idea how the operations of the plants works and the processes involved. Solid reporting. I love all you go green commentators, where do you think the energy to power your home and computer where you are making these unfounded comments comes from? Petrochemicals and refining of crude are in your lives, unless you want to get rid of the plastics that so many things are made of; your electronics, furniture, all types of plastics, the list goes on and on. "Toxic Tour" is right, toxic vomit coming out of your mouths. This "evil" industry puts thousands upon thousands of people to work every year all along the gulf coast, putting food on peoples plates and roofs over they're heads. A region I might add which has seen economic stability unlike your liberal safe havens and overly taxed unbalanced budget northern states. I have lost track of how many people I have met here in Houston that have moved down here because this is the only area with steady work and growth.
The Petro Chemical industry is by and large responsible for this tragedy. Contributing to global warming on the one hand and then putting all their eggs in one basket in Houston which is prone to hurricanes in the first place. This industry will suffer no consequences. It will just use it as an excuse to create a situation of artificial scarcity and increase oil prices nationwide and then take government welfare. While the people of Houston get little or no relief. This should be a wake up call that we need to move away from fossil fuels and invest money in renewable energy. But that will not happen. We will end up subsidizing this outdated and obnoxious industry and it will just happen over and over again until every drop of oil has been profited from. Meanwhile people will suffer and die. And in the end we will make this planet uninhabitable. We are in the process of killing future generations for the sake of making a handful of people rich. And rich and poor alike will all die. That is a zero-sum game.
Consumers do have some responsibility for the environmental damage they contribute to. But when economical alternatives are not available that are technologically possible because of special interests and corruption what choice do we have? We need transportation. The fact that the government does not provide things like high speed rail, public transportation and renewable energy options is beyond our control. We spend the majority of discretionary spending on a military that really has no reason to exist except for creating death and destruction to fill the pockets of the very rich by stealing other countries natural resources under the guise of "Freedom and Democracy", when in truth it should be called "Enslavement and Oligarchy".
Hoodoo Man ,I agree,but there are alternative choices.If the majority of Americans refused to purchase fuel or own anything that runs on petroleum new markets would be created. The majority are brainwashed and sadly enough they won't change until there is no other choice. If a gallon of gas had a carbon tax and cost 5 bucks, the majority would be taking mass transit ,riding e-bikes, and finding new ways to travel. Society is as much too blame as government and corporations.
That is good in theory. But we should have moved away from fossil fuels 50 years ago. New markets can only be created through government subsidizing the creation of those markets until they are established. And government failed to do that because of corruption and special interests. It is not possible to move an entire nation into alternative renewable energy without a sort of Apollo project mentality. The people would follow where others lead. But our government failed us and our elected officials failed us. Now the entire planet will suffer the consequences of the greed and avarice of a very few. That is the price of predatory capitalism. And the people let it happen through ignorance and stupidity. Now I fear for my children and grandchildren. I have been screaming from the mountain top since the 1960's to no avail. I am old now and will soon die. I don't fear for myself anymore. I only fear for those who will have to live in this hell on earth. I fear for generations yet unborn. And I regret my inability to do anything about it.
Hoodoo Man ,I feel the same way brother. My days are short as well.Im planning on living them as simplistic as possible by not consuming finite resources. More than half the human population on earth lives on less than 4 bucks a day.I just want to live with nature (what's left of it)even if it means squatting in a tent on BLM land.
@DemocrationNow A reflection: Shouldn't you hide the face and change the voices of the workers (even if they could easily be identified by their employers). They may end up loosing their job for saying something wrong while they're just honest workers. Obviously, the CEO's are hiding but they're the ones who should answer your questions.
Why are not all the protesting organizations marching on Houston. To fight the injustice of Harvey. Help relieve they needy. BLM, white nationals (or is it patriots now?) antifa. Why don't you target your efforts to help those in need? As apposed to your own selfish desires.
Ben Smith actually it was BLM who organized help efforts from day one post impact. ANTIFA came after. I believe it was discussed on al-jazeera last week.
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Amy walking up to the pipeline workers and interviewing them is why she is the best.
Thank you Democracy Now! for doing this report. You are deeply appreciate. Please don't stop! I just sent this link to my insurance company that refuses to pay for my evacuation due to the Arkema explosion. They put a 1.5 perimeter as the only area that needed a mandatory evacuation though people in Baytown were also feeling the weight of the toxins in the air. Please continue to blast this situation into the public so that people can know what is really happening here.
Can't we get a chemist out there and test the water and air?
Love the On site coverage. Amy Goodman!!!
Emerald Fire Much Love, Honor, and Respect to Amy and DN Team, thank you!
I was born and raised just south of about 5 Superfund sites. I have more health issues than I can count, and many others over here are fighting horrible rare cancers or are being born with more birth defects than ever before. Idk what's being burnt, but I plan to try to move away from this side of town within the next few years.
I was part of the Brio Superfund in Pasadena I was born in 84 so I was about two years old when we move there and I have plenty of health issues to biggest being kidney major kidney issues as an adult as well as learning disabilities that I've had to fight through my entire life, my mom's best friend got pregnant there and had her baby her son is extremely Disturbed mentally and emotionally and you can kind of tell physically something's not right
They don't care about people, the residents. It's all about the money to them. These companies will never take responsibility for the damage they're doing to the environment and to people's health. It's only best to move because breathing in these toxic pollutants will only kill you and everyone else slowly overtime. It's unfortunate how there are so many people in Texas who are uninformed of how dangerous and deadly this is. And the residents living nearby these areas have no say in it at all. They're basically forced to deal with it or pushed to move out.
Carlos Caban Jr. from Brooklyn. God Bless you and the church.
I've thought for decades many people who try to scratch out an existence in parts of Africa near to be air lifted out. Houston needs to be completely shut down and those citizens air lifted to a safer place, too. I've never been to Houston, and this remarkable video re-enforces staying away. The Sahara is mostly uninhabitable and Petro Metro looks like a death camp.
jeff harris please stay away, Houston is fine and the best place to get you ahead than the rest of America, especially ahead of California and New York.
This is a bayou, the city was built around bayous and we know and deal with it.
Meanwhile Californians and New Yorkers keep fleeing to Texas and Houston.
Excellent coverage on this, Democracy Now! Thank you for sharing this show with me!
V. Lee Walker thank goodness for DemocracyNow, for risking their lives to report news for and by the people.
*excellent BIASED coverage. They are CNN lite. Virtue Signalling is on full display. They used all the "trigger" words....Immigrant, hispanic community getting gased etc. This guy Bryan has no clue what he is talking about
Amy thank you, for having the courage to show this hell created by Exxon & the rest of these petro criminals who must be in prison. My love to the residents.
Tillerson should know exactly what toxic chemicals are being released in the water and air and the fact that he has not made any public statement on this is deplorable.
What role does fracking and its dirty oil have on this new type of more polluting crude oil? the residents say they recently noticed the smells and THEIR throats getting worse ....When the environment gets so bad the economy and peoples daily lives are interrupted only then will our government even allow talks of climate change and immediate actions that need to be taken...GREED WILL ALWAYS WIN IN THE CORPORATE WORLD ITS BUSINESS AS USUAL .
The American Federal/State rule of law appears to exempt Corporations,US justice system is rather pretentious choosing to victimize truth.
I love this blouse.
Please explain the point of asking those workers about their opinion on climate change.
Petro is so Retro! Get them fancy pant oil moguls all together, Ivanka and family, FOX and friends, Alex Jones and Breitbart, Betsy de Voss etc. Let's add the meat factories and gelatin producers. Make them and CEOs and stockholders live around the dinosaur juice that supports them. They will have hotels, shopping and golf courses around there instead of families that have no other alternatives who deserve to be in better areas. It'll be like a reverse buy out. We'll build a dome, the most wonderful structure anyone has ever seen and cover them up with it. Don Drumpf can still have a place he can preside over. They can keep it all to themselves. That would be a beautiful "wall".
No facts presented, all speculation. Asking people with no scientific background at all "whats in the air?" You did no research at all, you have no idea how the operations of the plants works and the processes involved. Solid reporting. I love all you go green commentators, where do you think the energy to power your home and computer where you are making these unfounded comments comes from? Petrochemicals and refining of crude are in your lives, unless you want to get rid of the plastics that so many things are made of; your electronics, furniture, all types of plastics, the list goes on and on. "Toxic Tour" is right, toxic vomit coming out of your mouths. This "evil" industry puts thousands upon thousands of people to work every year all along the gulf coast, putting food on peoples plates and roofs over they're heads. A region I might add which has seen economic stability unlike your liberal safe havens and overly taxed unbalanced budget northern states. I have lost track of how many people I have met here in Houston that have moved down here because this is the only area with steady work and growth.
seems like houston's a microcosm of corporate dystopia, this is what would happen worldwide if they got away with it.
this is really really good
why didn't the authorities cut the electricity to the town? so to stop the risk of electrocution all together?
When does the Red Cross ever help?
The American one? It seems never. It literally seems to be the most corrupt chapter of the International Red Cross there is.
Yrs, when house hunting I would recommend a different area. For those living here, might want to move.
how do these companies just refuse to release the information on what chemicals are in these controlled burns?
The Petro Chemical industry is by and large responsible for this tragedy. Contributing to global warming on the one hand and then putting all their eggs in one basket in Houston which is prone to hurricanes in the first place. This industry will suffer no consequences. It will just use it as an excuse to create a situation of artificial scarcity and increase oil prices nationwide and then take government welfare. While the people of Houston get little or no relief. This should be a wake up call that we need to move away from fossil fuels and invest money in renewable energy. But that will not happen. We will end up subsidizing this outdated and obnoxious industry and it will just happen over and over again until every drop of oil has been profited from. Meanwhile people will suffer and die. And in the end we will make this planet uninhabitable. We are in the process of killing future generations for the sake of making a handful of people rich. And rich and poor alike will all die. That is a zero-sum game.
Hoodoo Man ,I agree, but we are all to blame for using it.
Consumers do have some responsibility for the environmental damage they contribute to. But when economical alternatives are not available that are technologically possible because of special interests and corruption what choice do we have? We need transportation. The fact that the government does not provide things like high speed rail, public transportation and renewable energy options is beyond our control. We spend the majority of discretionary spending on a military that really has no reason to exist except for creating death and destruction to fill the pockets of the very rich by stealing other countries natural resources under the guise of "Freedom and Democracy", when in truth it should be called "Enslavement and Oligarchy".
Hoodoo Man ,I agree,but there are alternative choices.If the majority of Americans refused to purchase fuel or own anything that runs on petroleum new markets would be created. The majority are brainwashed and sadly enough they won't change until there is no other choice. If a gallon of gas had a carbon tax and cost 5 bucks, the majority would be taking mass transit ,riding e-bikes, and finding new ways to travel. Society is as much too blame as government and corporations.
That is good in theory. But we should have moved away from fossil fuels 50 years ago. New markets can only be created through government subsidizing the creation of those markets until they are established. And government failed to do that because of corruption and special interests. It is not possible to move an entire nation into alternative renewable energy without a sort of Apollo project mentality. The people would follow where others lead. But our government failed us and our elected officials failed us. Now the entire planet will suffer the consequences of the greed and avarice of a very few. That is the price of predatory capitalism. And the people let it happen through ignorance and stupidity. Now I fear for my children and grandchildren. I have been screaming from the mountain top since the 1960's to no avail. I am old now and will soon die. I don't fear for myself anymore. I only fear for those who will have to live in this hell on earth. I fear for generations yet unborn. And I regret my inability to do anything about it.
Hoodoo Man ,I feel the same way brother. My days are short as well.Im planning on living them as simplistic as possible by not consuming finite resources. More than half the human population on earth lives on less than 4 bucks a day.I just want to live with nature (what's left of it)even if it means squatting in a tent on BLM land.
I cannot believe that people and houses are allowed so close to the tanks. They need to be moved out.
Their very lives are dependant on oil jobs....AND let's bet there is a signed nondisclosure agreement in their employee files!!!
kinda wished i saw amy while she was here Dx
Parks. Make no sense to corporations. No money.
@DemocrationNow
A reflection: Shouldn't you hide the face and change the voices of the workers (even if they could easily be identified by their employers). They may end up loosing their job for saying something wrong while they're just honest workers. Obviously, the CEO's are hiding but they're the ones who should answer your questions.
Don't drive-take mass transit
"EXON BOUGHT THEM ALL OUT"
You can't hide from are mother earth today 2020
Why are not all the protesting organizations marching on Houston. To fight the injustice of Harvey. Help relieve they needy. BLM, white nationals (or is it patriots now?) antifa. Why don't you target your efforts to help those in need? As apposed to your own selfish desires.
Ben Smith actually it was BLM who organized help efforts from day one post impact. ANTIFA came after. I believe it was discussed on al-jazeera last week.
grand old party or [gay ol gas and oil shake down party.]
Greetings Good Work Ms. Goodman! Mr. Bryan Parras Mexican Amercan? What! You What To Help YOU'R People You Better Get You'r Heritage Right Frist; Preacher Stop Lying Teach The Truth!!! Check Out The Chief Nanya Shaabu Eil!!!
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what about the nuclear power plant, why don't you cover that also? nuclear is more dangerous