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A21 Special to Florida Weekly the bereavement programs available in feelings.” the area and had a hard time coping with Ken Staggs, a 47-year-old project man- A 7-year-old boy who lost his father the reality of the death. ager at Motorola, died in 2009. Ryan Download in a drowning accident couldn’t find an “I sought out a lot of resources for him struggled with the tragedy for two years our FREE outlet for his grief. Traditional therapy, — pretty much every resource I could before finally opening up. His unconven- App today including individual counseling, school find — but in essence, it was a situation tional therapist: a girl whose father had counseling and a weekend retreat at Hos- where an adult was working with a child died. Available on pice of Palm Beach County’s Camp Good to help him or her work through their the iTunes and Grief, failed. grief situation,” mother Valerie Staggs SEE KIDS, A24 Android App Store. 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An oil-soaked beach is their nightmare. tial downside of the deal. When a disaster All the pretensions and the hubris to The Deepwater Horizon was pumping oil happens, the questions always come up: the contrary, this engineering marvel 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. What is the true cost of drilling and are failed on every measure of regulation, The seaside town of Santa Barbara is When it exploded, the chickens came the risks worth it? management, safety, prevention, and con- in the news lately, but not in a good way. home to roost faster than you can say, The “before” and “after” of the spill tainment that matters, and on a massive The pristine beaches of this California “Workers will be fired for raising safety in Santa Barbara are instructive. Oil scale, affecting millions of people. town are awash in more than 100,000 gal- concerns.” transformed the beautiful beaches from Today, we still do not know the full lons of crude oil, the result of a pipeline The coastal economies of hundreds of a Memorial Day haven for bathers and extent of the permanent damage to the break that should have been preventable communities consist of thousands of jobs seaside campers into a toxic waste dump, Gulf, but we know we have been boiled but wasn’t. fueled by the multi-billion-dollar tour- littered with dead fish and fowl. Vinyl- in oil. The company responsible apologized, ism and fishing industries. These sectors clad aliens in hazmat suits added to the The Obama administration expects and ironically is employing the same generate millions more in tax revenue. surrealism of the scene, populating the to permit seismic exploration in the firm to clean up the mess that undertook Coastal communities like the way they beach like brothers from another planet. Atlantic Ocean, from Delaware to a similar task following the Deepwater butter their bread now and are resistant The spill covered 10 square miles. Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico in to the shotgun wedding the oil industry Santa Barbara does not want this ver- Scientists know little about the 2005. and its supporters never tire of proposing sion of the picture postcard sent to the impact on endangered fish, whales Here at home, the consequences of in Congress or our state capitals. folks back home: azure waters turned and sea turtles. the Gulf spill are still with us, although New plans are in the air to open yet black and filthy; and white sand beaches The Florida Department of Environ- BP Oil would like us to think otherwise, further the door to drilling for oil and gas obliterated by poisonous sludge. Sure. mental Protection wrote to the feds and if we think the largest environmental off our coastlines. They’ll clean it up, but will the place ever requesting a delay, noting, “Much of disaster in U.S. history has reduced the The unease is palpable. This is a union be the same again? Florida’s economy is dependent on inevitability of oil spills, Santa Barbara of disparate economies and incompatible They started asking that question in these healthy and sustainable marine proves us wrong. partners. One holds in reserve the threat Santa Barbara 50 years ago, after the mas- and coastal resources” — a profound The systems of prevention are so rid- of an environmental disaster that could sive dump of millions of gallons of oil understatement if you ask me. ■ dled by Murphy’s Law (anything bad that mean death of the other. polluted the Santa Barbara Channel — at can happen, will happen) that entrepre- The risk lies in wait like a bad uncle the time, an unprecedented disaster. They — Leslie Lilly is a native Florid- neurs are making a profit out of everyone who is waiting to spoil the party when are still asking it. Add now to their query, ian. Her professional career spans more else’s bad news, and the clean-up sector an inherent weakness goes full blown, the environmental woes spawned by this than 25 leading major philanthropic for drilling when drilling goes bad is pros- despite the perfect plan. more recent spill, and the words “no, institutions in the South and Appala- pering — not a good sign. When things go bad, and the unthink- never” come to mind as the answer to the chia. She resides with her family and The failed plan to protect Santa Barba- able that Big Oil denies will happen does question. pugs in Jupiter. Email her at llilly@ ra’s coastal environment is symptomatic. happen, we push the reset button to slow- Closer to home, five years ago, BP’s floridaweekly.com and follow Lilly on It is another example of failures occurring ly open the door to more drilling. But it is Deepwater Horizon exploded, leaving 11 Twitter @llilly15men. “Watch how high I can go!” For her, it’s a personal challenge.challenge. 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