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Stephen Baldwin to bring Thunder Response Team to Walton County (PHOTOS)
Actor, radio host, and filmmaker Stephen Baldwin is continuing to take action to help clean up the devastating aftermath caused by April’s oil spill in the Gulf region. Despite the news that the oil spill has been capped, there are still millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf that could possibly wash up on shore, and he is urging everyone to keep the area and its population in mind.
“With the opening of a new airport in Panama City,” Baldwin said, “the timing is right for all of us who can assist because it is only by continuous support and aid that the entire nation can help reignite the economic setback that this region has suffered. We need to help those that have lost loved ones and had their lives devastated by this disaster.”
On Aug. 30, Baldwin, along with his newly formed Thunder Response Group, a rapid response environmental cleanup organization, will do an on-beach demonstration of the “Borco Last Line of Defense Clean Beach Skimming Systems, consisting of the 5300 CFM Borco Supersucker truck, X Beach Vac, and X Wand Vac’s.
Thunder Response, working along with Walton County officials and the local sheriff’s department, wants to make sure that with these new clean beach skimming systems the beaches of Walton are as safe as ever. Everyone will first meet at the Walton County Visitors Center on the corner of Hwy 331 and Hwy 98 at 1:30 p.m., and the demonstration will follow soon after.
Baldwin recently spent several weeks in the Gulf producing his new documentary, The Will to Drill. The Will to Drill, which is currently still in production, is a non-partisan exploration of the events that transpired leading up to the explosion and all that continues to be transpiring of the offshore oil rig, Deepwater Horizon.
This event is now proven to be the worst environmental disaster to ever impact the American coast line. In May, he brought in a team of camera operators to the ‘ground zero’ of the situation in Plaquemines Parrish, New Orleans, where he began the process of understanding the overwhelming situation being faced by the region’s inhabitants.
For continued coverage, please visit www.TheWillToDrill.com. For more information on the August 30 event, please visit www.ThunderResponse.com .
