so guard right on the risk/reward occasion. mr. chairman, the comments of our witness today reveal little sorrow for the events that have occurred and here he said, the gulf of mexico is a very big ocean. the amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting in is tiny in relation to the total water volume, and, then, the environmental impact of the disaster is likely to be very, very modest. i wonder if he wishes to stand on that statement today. when mr. hayward responded to the claims that cleanup workers were becoming ill because of oil fumes and such, he said this, food poisoning is clearly a big issue. and, finally, most famously, mr. hayward informs us he wants his life back. last year, mr. hayward enjoyed a splendid 41% pay raise even as
lot of our areas impacted by oil. corey, our folks have been down there from cnn trying to get cleanup workers to open up a little bit, to talk about them and i tried to ask the representative from bp about this a little earlier, not with much success. but that you know, what we are hearing is there is nothing, frankly. and it feels like this gag order has been put on anybody sort of involved in the cleanup in anyway. people are being extraordinarily cautious. are you, because you are there every day, you are local, having anymore success in sort of getting the real sense of what s happening on the ground? i think like after workup, the work is over with and the crews are heading maybe to restaurants and the like, louisiana crew people, they will kind of talk a little bit. but i noticed the folks from texas, anyone from out of town, that bp or their subcontractors have hired, i have tried to talk
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do we know how many of these cleanup workers, a percentage, perhaps, how many of them have to do this out of the economic necessity caused by this bp disaster in the gulf? the overwhelming majority of cleanup workers are the fishermen, shrimpers who have been put out of work by bp s oil disaster. and in fact, bp representatives have spoken very glowingly at community meetings that it s their goal to employ as many of these out of work fishermen and shrimpers as they can in order to minimize payouts for a loss of compensation. who s actually governmentally responsible for ensuring the safety and health of the people trying to do the cleanup here? there s a report i read that in that four-state region, osha has 25 employees. does it seem unavoidable that people are going to fall through the cracks? well, i think the situation with osha and the few resources and staffing that they have for the gulf region, it s part of this larger pattern, where we see this major failure of our
perhaps, how many of them have to do this out of the economic necessity caused by this bp disaster in the gulf? the overwhelming majority of cleanup workers are the fishermen, shrimpers who have been put out of work by bp s oil disaster. and in fact, bp representatives have spoken very glowingly at community meetings that it s their goal to employ as many of these out of work fishermen and shrimpers as they can in order to minimize payouts for a loss of compensation. who s actually governmentally responsible for ensuring the safety and health of the people trying to do the cleanup here? there s a report i read that in that four-state region, osha has 25 employees. does it seem unavoidable that people are going to fall through the cracks? well, i think the situation with osha and the few resources and staffing that they have for the gulf region, it s part of this larger pattern, where we this larger pattern, where we see this major failure of our regulatory agencies to protect