folks who go out and they re doing the cleanup work, they come back, they feel better, and they go back again because it s a choice between feeding their family and not having any money to feed their family. and they re willing to sacrifice their health to feed their family, and i think that s tragic. you re group has been distributing what protective gear you have to these workers. do we know what bp s reaction has been to workers showing up with their own protective gear? yes, i m glad that you brought that up. lean and the mississippi riverkeeper is distributing protective gear when our folks, our fishermen folks had their respirators on they were told to take them off, that they would be fired if they used them. fired for wearing they re not allowed to what was the premise of that? fired for using safety equipment. i think that perhaps they re afraid they ll admit some sort of liability, that there s a problem in the air if they allow them to use the respirators.
doing the cleanup work, they come back, they feel better and they go back again because it s a choice between feeding their family and not having any money to feed their family, and they re willing to sacrifice their health to feed their family and i think that s tragic. your group has been distributing what protective gear you have to these workers. do we know what bp s reaction has been to workers showing up with their own protective gear? yes. i m glad that you brought that up. the lower mississippi river keeper is distributing protective gear when our folks, our fishermen folks had their respirators on, they were told to take them off, that they would be fired if they used them. fired. for they were not allowed what was the premise of that? fired for using safety equipment. i think that perhaps they re afraid that they will admit some sort of liability, that there s a problem in the air if they allow them to use the respirators. dr. ott said last night that the pr