Oil Spill One Year On: What's Changed?
Post categories: Robyn in New Orleans
| 14:11 UK time, Friday, 1 April 2011
Hi folks, Robyn Bresnahan here.
The one year anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is just around the corner. I've come back to Louisiana to catch up with many of the fishing families I met just after it happened.
Just the other day, I reconnected with fifth-generation shrimper Charles Robin. When we first met, he broke down in tears and told me he felt useless without being able to fish.
A year later, I asked him what had changed.
"You may think the oil spill is over, but the reality is we're dealing with it every day."
He and many others are still fighting to get compensation from BP.
On Friday's World Have Your Say, I'll be speaking to fishermen live from the banks of a fishing bayou.
Do you have questions for them? If so, post them here.
I'll also speak to a crisis counsellor who is seeing an increase in the number of fishermen who are depressed, have high blood pressure and have developed eating disorders.
I hope you'll be able to tune in.
