The Spill in the Gulf
Tuesday, May 04 2010
THE SPILL IN THE GULF
Today, three people comment on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Colonel Daniel Bordelon, the Commander of the Engineer Task Force with the Louisiana National Guard, joins Dick Gordon from the Breton Sound Marina in Hopedale, La. Michael Ziccardi, director of The Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN), talks with Dick about his group's efforts to relocate to the disaster zone, preparing to deal with the animals that will soon be covered in oil.
Dick also talks with David Morris. David is an Emergency Response consultant specializing in oil spills. Since the 1980s, he's worked on more than 200 oil spills - offshore, on land, and from pipelines. He usually finds himself at the Emergency Command Post. There he brainstorms about where the oil spill will travel, how to stop it from reaching the shoreline where it causes the most damage, and how to contain it if it does reach shore.
- Find out more about David's business http://www.alitek.com/
SECURING A POSITION
Nancy Eade
There will be lots of talk about the state of the economy this week. Many corporations are due to release quarterly results, and later this week, we'll hear about the unemployment numbers for the month of April. It's the news about jobs that most people will be watching most closely. Dick's guest, Nancy Eade, was laid off from a big corporation, and she was without work for fourteen months. But she's now working again. And what she did to find work could be a lesson for others who are job hunting.
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