NOLA lawyer prepares challenge to declaration of Gulf seafood’s safety

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story

NOLA lawyer prepares challenge to declaration of Gulf seafood’s safety

By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 -- 4:32 pm
An environmental law firm in New Orleans said it was preparing to challenge the government's public declaration that following the nation's worst-ever oil disaster, seafood from the Gulf of Mexico remained safe to eat.

Stuart H. Smith, Esq., of the law firm Smith Stag, LLC., was leading the charge, rallying additional litigants to his side through a website called Oil Spill Action.

He's the attorney who secured a verdict awarding over $1 billion over the radium contamination of leased land due to oil drilling.

"Mr. Smith’s litigation experience includes a lawsuit against Ashland Oil for contaminating the Lee aquifer, once one of the largest sources of fresh water for residents in eastern Kentucky," his self-published bio claims. "He also sued Chevron Corporation for damages associated with that company’s contamination of the groundwater in the rural town of Brookhaven, Mississippi. His firm also represents clients injured by chemicals and defective drugs."

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/nola-lawyer-mounts-legal-challenge-declaration-gulf-seafoods-safety/#

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Good !!!!!

The truth has to come out.

[midnight]

5. I second this....

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. And this:

"dispersant use has continued well beyond the “official” end date. The piece, by senior reporter Kari Huus, is entitled, “Is dispersant still being sprayed in the gulf?”

The importance of that question goes directly to the issue of seafood safety, among others. In a recent article from AOL Daily Finance, Peter Hodson, an aquatic toxicologist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, explains: While dispersants don’t increase the toxicity of petroleum, they can vastly increase the chances that a fish will interact with oil, and that the oil’s toxicity will affect sea life."

MSNBC.com Confirms Findings that Dispersant Use Continued Well After “Official” End Date

http://oilspillaction.com/msnbc-com-confirms-findings-that-dispersant-use-continued-well-after-official-end-date

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Link

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/nola-lawyer-mounts-legal-challenge-declaration-gulf-seafoods-safety/#


You had the Google results for yours.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Accck!!! Thank you, vm.

:hi:

[defendandprotect]

4. EPA .... after 9/11 ... air quality is SAFE in NYC .... !!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Best we can say about Bush regime, it gave us LONG memories.

The guy and his cronies were NOT forgettable, were they?

[defendandprotect]

9. Tremendous damage done that the nation still suffers and is not being reversed ....

sadly -- !!


:) fingers crossed for the New Year!!

[crim son]

10. The shrub made blatant deception the norm here in the U.S.

I'm guessing we will see a ripple effect around the world, because if the U.S. can get away with such crimes, why not, say, Honduras?

[Kingofalldems]

8. Kick this one

[pacalo]

11. As a seafood lover, I'm thrilled!