"I had a run-in with one of the Coast Guard. He said this is my water out here. I said, no, you're wrong. This is my water. You're just a visitor...
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ffxiv gil, We've been here all our lives," says Wayne Eldridge, whose construction company in Bayou La Batre, Ala., has been working on oil spill response.
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ffxiv gil, "You got guys in hazmat suits walking down the beach. It's not ... fun having your wife and daughter lying out in bikinis.
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ffxiv gil, It just doesn't go together, you know?" says Alabama real estate agent and developer Howard Yeager.
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ffxiv gil, Although he has a hard time trusting anyone linked to the spill, he is counting on the government to make the rig's owners and operators fulfill their promises of restoring the Gulf. "I don't see BP packing up and leaving. I don't think they could do that without the government seizing assets and trying to pay bills for them, taking drastic action," Yeager says.
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ffxiv gil, Mary Scarcliff's thinking kind of goes the other way. The owner of Lighthouse Bakery at Dauphin Island, Ala., who has a BP contract to feed National Guard members working on the coast, trusts BP to do the right thing since the company already is making claims payments.
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ffxiv gil, But she is worried about the federal government and general public forgetting what happened once news coverage of the spill decreases.
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