Comments on: Oil Smell Reported In Escambia; Health Department Cautions Residents

By: Big B, little ill

Big B, little ill — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:57:27 +0000

The paper mill in cantonment used to call it clean steam, but it never smelled like pine-sol fresh to me. So what you going to do? We all just can’t pack up and move. The damage done from BP oil LEAK as they call it will be around for a long time and looks as if it could spread up the east coast.
So far they have only tried to syphon off some of the oil and not stop the flow. The top hats that were built where not designed to stop it, just allow them a means of capturing some of it. Why they don’t use every effort to stop the flow, I will never understand.

By: geezzzz

geezzzz — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:01:23 +0000

bob your right about the jobs,
but you know mom and pop shops and manufacturing of good clean products
also bring jobs!

If we all stopped buying other countries goods and boycotted walmart maybe
we could do what built this country and make better products again IN THIS COUNTRY! Stop sending all our money OUT, with nothing comming in, and
then you would see what clean air was and that money could still flow, towns
could still grow, and ppl would prosper. Way back when some towns had
dirty air from certain manufacturing, but many towns made good clean products.
We could have been one of those towns.

Also bob, obviously you have never had an acute ashma attack, and you
don’t have cronic lung disease!

By: S.L.B

S.L.B — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:57:58 +0000

Bob, you have a reasonable point, however that point doesn’t really mean squat to those who have breathing complications and something sets off an attack!

We can control not driving ourselves into area’s that have Mills and etc…, but we cannot control the South winds that bring in the vapors of the petroleum-like substances, into our air space.

My husband describes his attacks as trying to breath out of a straw OR being a fish laying outside a fish bowl and gasping to get air into his lungs. It’s not a good feeling to not be able to breath freely and is very upsetting to watch.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:46:06 +0000

I smell the oil smell up here in Brewton during the day. It smells more like burnt plastic to me. The TV said the winds are blowing from the South so everyone should be smelling it as time goes on. The Health Department should check there machines if the are not picking it up.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:19:38 +0000

When I go to Pensacola ,I smell the paper mill at Cantonment. When I go to Brewton I smell the paper mill at Brewton. While I’m traveling on Hwy 31, I smell the Big Escambia Facility. Early in the morning with a southeast breeze I can smell Solutia. When I go to Bay Minette I smell the Pole Treating facility. Do I run get in the house,close my windows and act like a recluse? Of course not , as long as we have these odors I know people have jobs and their children are being cared for everyday. When these smells cease to exist we are all in trouble.

By: JW

JW — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:08:08 +0000

That’s funny Big B! Good point.

By: Chumuckla proud

Chumuckla proud — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:04:55 +0000

Let’s try anything that may work to clean up this horrible mess. If Kevin Costner says he has an oil separator that he, his scientist brother, and an attorney have invested millions of dollars in (and that it actually works), then by all means, let ‘em go at it! No harm in trying! In the meantime, BP can concentrate on sealing the darned leak!

By: Big B, little ill

Big B, little ill — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:53:23 +0000

It’s amazing to me that when you strike oil on land, they call it a gusher, but when it’s 5000 feet below sea level in a 21 inch open pipe. It’s called a LEAK.

By: rollingwiththetide

rollingwiththetide — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:50:09 +0000

BP concedes Gulf oil spill is bigger than estimate. What else is BP hiding from us?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:32:39 +0000

I certainly hope they can prevent the oil from reaching our shores.