BP Texas City Explosion 2004 - How many people were working when it happened including contractors?
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They will probably never know the true count. How many contractors are going to admit to how many illegals they had working for them?
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For you information, we did NOT get aid immediately, it was nearly 1 week and a half after that we got ANY acknowledgment of being alive.  I live in Northwest Florida and we still have damage.  There are people with blue roofs still after nearly 2 years (Hurricane Ivan).  We had no help from anyone, we were completely ignored!  The gym at one of the local high schools had the roof ripped off, and just recently was it replaced.  The reason we were "better off" was that we actually prepared. I feel pity for them yes, but hardly guilt, they got relief faster than we did.
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noone dynamited the towers. it was caused by thousands of gallons of jet fuel.
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My father farmed cotton in S. Texas in the 1950's. There wasn't the problems back then with people coming across the Rio Bravo to work. We had a family that came up from San Luis Potosi to chop or pick when needed. I worked right along side of them as a teen. Then in '54 came the big crack down and the BP came in force and using aircraft would dive on workers to get them to jump up and run. My father was a victim of one such incident just being missed by an aircraft.\n\nOne of our workers after being caught was pistol whipped by a BPman because he wanted to get his shoes. He asked several times if he could go and even if a BP would go with him. He told them they were new shoes and started to go get them. Our man was pistol whipped and thrown into the back of a truck. When they got him to Harlingen someone noticed how bad the man had been injured and took him to the hospital where he remained for several days.\n\nThen came the Bracerro Act which allowed men only to cross and work in the fields. It worked fairly well but at a huge expence to the farm owner. \n\nToday herbacides are used and planting is different so much hoeing and chopping are not needed. then machines are now used in much of the harvesting. A few of the crops such as onions, cabbage, and the like are hand picked. Much less hand labor is required today. True in the Rio Grand Valley there is enough laborers to do the work but in some areas there isn't. Because those from across the river will work for less pay the farmer or even the contractor will hire them to save money.\n\nToday you are dealing with a govenrment that is out of control and paranoid about everyone, including Americans. True there are those hell bent on drug trafficing etc over the border and that is causing a lot of the problems. Then also the US govenment thinks everyone is a terrorist and sends their gestapo after everyone.\n\nCanada welcomes the Mexican workers especially in SW Ontario where much farming goes on.\n\nAll this is a total "catch 22" no one wins and no one looses and nothing works as it should.\n\nIs there an easy answer to your question? No, not as long as governments of all countries are corrupt. I am a US citizen but the govenment here is an embarrasment to me.
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They try to reduce figures in many different ways. Private contractors die and those death numbers really would have been US troop deaths if they didn't hire so many private contractors. Another way to reduce number people use to gauge the country's sacrifice.
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The most famous episode of a human-induced earthquakes began in 1961, when a 3600 meter (12,000 feet) deep disposal well was drilled in the United States Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal northeast of Denver, Colorado. The well was used for disposing of toxic waste fluids from nerve gas production, and injection commenced in March 1962.\n\nShortly thereafter an unusual series of earthquakes erupted in the area, and by the end of December 1962 about 190 earthquakes had occurred. None caused damage until December, when several structures were damaged in Dupont and Irondale.\n\nOver 1,300 earthquakes were recorded between January 1963 and August 1967. In April 1967 the largest earthquake since the series began in 1962 occurred, and damage was recorded in the arsenal, Derby and Boulder. This tremor measured 5.0 on the Richter scale.\n\nEven after the Rocky Mountain Arsenal waste dumping practice stopped, earthquakes continued to be felt in the Denver area, so in 1968 the Army began removing fluid from the arsenal well very slowly in an effort to reduce the earthquake activity.
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They live in South Texas.  They work in the refineries and on the docks.  They work in restaraunts and in light manufacturing jobs.  They work in construction and in oilfield services.  You know, all the jobs Americans won't do.
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U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics said that 1,213,300 people were employed as of April 2006. See link below for more specific information as to types of employment.\n\n\n\nhttp://stats.bls.gov/eag/eag.ms.htm
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Well engineers work with extremely explosive materials or non life threatening materials. Either way, safety must come first.
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I'm not sure that we know. The sources I found said that 30,000 people died, but there are "no detailed records."
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Yes,their aircraft carrier ran aground in hurricane Katrina near Tex-Mex border.Thousands were walking back to Panama beach to catch ride w/sub but some were separated from the group and wound up getting trashed in matamoros during spring break.My sister danced with one of them.They were a trip.
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There are many companies that have civilians working to support the troops in Iraq.\n\nKBR has many people over there doing everything from repairing helicopters to supervising laundry services.\n\nI will warn you that you will work 12-hour days, six days a week.
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There are several in the Houston area.\n\nTry this:\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Construction+Project+Management+Company+that+services+Texas+%26+Louisiana&fr=FP-tab-web-t400&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8
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I'm here.  So are lots of other people.  No, we are not still under flood waters.  Yes, a lot of the city was destroyed and still lies in ruins.  Come see for yourself.
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tats simple go to www.google.com and click images and type in construction accidents and theres plenty hopfully i helped u!!
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The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.\n\nKBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said. KBR, which announced the contract last month, had a similar contract with immigration agencies from 2000 to last year.\n\nThe contract with the Corps of Engineers runs one year, with four optional one-year extensions. Officials of the corps said that they had solicited bids and that KBR was the lone responder.\n\nA spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jamie Zuieback, said KBR would build the centers only in an emergency like the one when thousands of Cubans floated on rafts to the United States. She emphasized that the centers might never be built if such an emergency did not arise.\n\n"It's the type of contract that could be used in some kind of mass migration," Ms. Zuieback said.\n\nA spokesman for the corps, Clayton Church, said that the centers could be at unused military sites or temporary structures and that each one would hold up to 5,000 people.\n\n"When there's a large influx of people into the United States, how are we going to feed, house and protect them?" Mr. Church asked. "That's why these kinds of contracts are there."\n\nMr. Church said that KBR did not end up creating immigration centers under its previous contract, but that it did build temporary shelters for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.\n\nFederal auditors rebuked the company for unsubstantiated billing in its Iraq reconstruction contracts, and it has been criticized because of accusations that Halliburton, led by Dick Cheney before he became vice president, was aided by connections in obtaining contracts. Halliburton executives denied that they charged excessively for the work in Iraq.\n\nMr. Church said concerns about the Iraq contracts did not affect the awarding of the new contract.\n\nRepresentative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, who has monitored the company, called the contract worrisome.\n\n"With Halliburton's ever expanding track record of overcharging, it's hard to believe that the administration has decided to entrust Halliburton with even more taxpayer dollars," Mr. Waxman said. "With each new contract, the need for real oversight grows."\n\nIn recent months, the Homeland Security Department has promised to increase bed space in its detention centers to hold thousands of illegal immigrants awaiting deportation. In the first quarter of the 2006 fiscal year, nearly 60 percent of the illegal immigrants apprehended from countries other than Mexico were released on their own recognizance.\n\nDomestic security officials have promised to end the releases by increasing the number of detention beds. Last week, domestic security officials announced that they would expand detaining and swiftly deporting illegal immigrants to include those seized near the Canadian border.\n\nAdvocates for immigrants said they feared that the new contract was another indication that the government planned to expand the detention of illegal immigrants, including those seeking asylum.\n\n"It's pretty obvious that the intent of the government is to detain more and more people and to expedite their removal," said Cheryl Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami.\n\nMs. Zuieback said the KBR contract was not intended for that.\n\n"It's not part of any day-to-day enforcement," she said.\n\nShe added that she could not provide additional information about the company's statement that the contract was also meant to support the rapi
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Stay away from Iraq.  The contractors are screwing with the labor force there - inticing them with big money offers and then reducing wages and in some cases not paying at all.  And that's besides kidnapping and beheading.\n\nNew Orleans is probably not as dangerous, but some news sources say that many trades people are there with no steady work. Also Homeland Security says they don't have to pay prevailing wage rates.\n\nContact unions and find out what's needed, they may know. Peruse online and NO newspaper classified listings - the Times Picayune is the local paper.   Good luck!