The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday announced on its website, the waiver of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for seven vessels, seeking approval to conduct bunkering services within the Stabroek and Corentyne oil Blocks, offshore Guyana.
sense of how big this problem is just in your city. yes, as a matter of fact, the reason for the declaration of disaster is to activate our partners like ngos, police, fire, medical, and in regards to medical, like we did in the pandemic, we re able to tap into other resources like the state or federal, to get medical personnel here to help the situation and avoid overwhelmed medical situations and overwhelmed ngo systems, which we only have two, and the capacity of those two are very limited. we have to tap into our other resources and we are doing proactive things through our emergency management plan. dr. victor trevino, i know you have a lot on your plate right now. we take very seriously that you spent time waiting to come on the program and share your city s story with us. we thank you so much for your
a fraction of that. so we will be overwhelmed, everybody could potentially wind up in the streets. so we have to have plans for this. we have instilled our local emergency management plan and we are trying to get rec centers and park and ride areas ready for this. but for that of course, we need funding. my last question shunned you in time we have left, mister mayor, is how are you balancing the needs of asylum seekers with the needs of laredo residents? particularly when it comes to things like maintaining access to services like hospitals, for example. you talk about not having the infrastructure, and hospitals being overwhelmed. how do you balance that? these are federal problems that we re having to handle ourselves at the local level. and we ve been medically underserved for decades. we cannot have this overflow of
people look on there. they are well equipped with bedding, with food supplies, and entertainment and distraction for the people that might be up during the night. so, it s plenty of water supplies and plenty of food supplies are available, and there will be medical supplies close by as well. all of the people who are out in the desert communities who have may be medical conditions or who are frail age have been evacuated down to newman to shelter centres down at newman, so they are well accommodated. so we have a plan. we have a local emergency management plan to cater for this sort of event. so that was activated about three days ago. where there cyclone had crossed at the coast at a premier caravan park and recreation site, that was