Catholic Charities director: Spill could be 'worse than hurricanes'
"It's not knowing the extent of the continuing crisis in the Gulf of Mexico that is ratcheting up anxiety in southern Louisiana," said Rob Gorman of Catholic Charities
Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service
Dead fish in the Gulf of Mexico near Port Sulpher, La. (CNS/Reuters)
The ultimate tally of the devastation wrought by the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in April could be "worse than hurricanes," said the director of Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, La.
"The level of anxiety is incredibly high," said Rob Gorman, who has been with Catholic Charities since 1982 and married the daughter of a French-speaking bayou fisherman. "If you're a trawler, you don't know if you're going to be able to trawl this year, or if you're going to be able to trawl next year, or the year after that, or the year after that."
The same, Gorman said, applies to fishermen, crabbers and shrimpers.
