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Louisiana was once called the Sportsman Paradise. Not any longer. Louisiana sold it,s soul to the DEVIL when it let BIG OIL in, especially South Louisiana. They have destroyed our marshes and sw
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"Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil
posted at August 10, 2012 12:54 PM EDT
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Louisiana was once called the Sportsman Paradise. Not any longer. Louisiana sold it,s soul to the DEVIL when it let BIG OIL in, especially South Louisiana. They have destroyed our marshes and swamps digging thousands of canals through them to locate rigs. Many times not finding oil at all and just leaving without doing anything to minimize the damage. We are losing a foot ball field of marsh here every minute. A lot of it because of Big Oil. That leaves us vulnerable to hurricanes such as what Katrina did us a few years back, Regardless of the levees the marshes were a natural buffer that slowed these storms down before hitting the inhabited areas, now we are losing that buffer zone. One more storm like Katrina and a lot of communities will not be back. We have the most lax environmental regulations in the country. Shipyards still sand blast outside with silica sand and let the run offs go into our bayous, rivers and lakes. Big Oil still pumps toxic waste into salt domes and abandon wells. As I speak a community is evacuated because of toxic waste coming from a salt dome is spreading through a swamp swallowing cypress trees and everything in its path. Many of our communities have faced the same situation this one is now facing. OUR CANCER RATE IS THE HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY. We are last or near last in ever statistic that is good. The only businesses that will locate here are businesses that cannot operate in the rest of the United States because other states EPA regulations would not permit them. An oil company was caught in a lake pumping radio active liquid in a well a few years back and was only caught because it spilled into a lake and a fisherman happened to observe the frantic efforts to contain the spill and let a newspaper reporter know. It was reported but nothing ever became of it. Our governor has cut jobs on the state level with the highest poverty rate being second only to Mississippi. Even with the biggest man made disaster (The BP Oil Spill" that killed thousands of sea birds and countless marine life our politicians continued to criticize the President for stopping drilling in deep water until a fix for the problem could be found. That showed how much we are dependent on Big Oil. We are rich in oil but the State still has no money. When the oil boom is gone here in Louisiana and Big Oil moves on Louisiana will be gone also. |
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Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil
posted at August 10, 2012 1:01 PM EDT
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"love of money is the root of all evil"... I have just read an article how American big corporations devastate another paradise- PERU poisoningf earth to mine gold. and poor people are helpless. |
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Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil
posted at August 10, 2012 3:15 PM EDT
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Yes, Astra, And there seems to be no way to stop them from destroying this earth we have to live on. In Response to Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil: "love of money is the root of all evil"... I have just read an article how American big corporations devastate another paradise- PERU poisoningf earth to mine gold. and poor people are helpless. Posted by Astra2012 |
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Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil
posted at August 10, 2012 9:35 PM EDT
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First: November 27, 2011 Last: May 18, 2013 |
In Response to "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil: Posted by creppelrm Jobs, Jobs, Jobs . . . . PBS August 07, 2012 - North DaKota Boomtown Suffers Growing Pains Trying to Keep Up With Demand Just to give a different prospective - their unemployment is now at 1% Where I live it is the shear number of people causing havoc - because of development upstream and the related impervious surfaces that comes with the development - the run-off creates floods in my community. With people comes the demand for many resources. |
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Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil
posted at August 11, 2012 1:11 AM EDT
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Yes Gail1, Here in Louisiana the unemployment rate is under the national average. There are many jobs but not lucrative work that draws a lot of professionals. In the past in small towns here in Louisiana where oil-field work drew a lot of what we called transients (people who came from other states looking for work) some of these people were running from the law and would get a job offshore in the Gulf and would never come in for fear of being arrested. We had a serial killer a while back that the oil-field drew here that killed children. This is what these Boom Towns draw. There is no time to plan or calculate the risk. We are living the reaction from such a Boom here in Louisiana. I read the local paper today about what I wrote in this original post of the toxic waste that is spreading in the swamp was found also to be radio active. That happens a lot where drilling is going on it is called NORM or Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material is a byproduct of drilling for oil. Some of the drill pipe that is used for drilling for years used to be resold for use in other projects until a lot of the pipe was found to contain radiation higher than considered safe for humans. And we wonder now why we have a high incidence of cancer. I don't know exactly what is done with the pipe now. These Boom towns have been happening since oil was discovered and it seems we haven't learned from the past. In Response to Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil: In Response to "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil : Jobs, Jobs, Jobs . . . . PBS August 07, 2012 - North DaKota Boomtown Suffers Growing Pains Trying to Keep Up With Demand Just to give a different prospective - their unemployment is now at 1% Where I live it is the shear number of people causing havoc - because of develhtopment upstream and the related impervious surfaces that comes with the development - the run-off creates floods in my community. With people comes the demand for many resources. Posted by GailL1 |
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Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil
posted at August 11, 2012 8:57 AM EDT
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In Response to Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil: Yes Gail1, Here in Louisiana the unemployment rate is under the national average. There are many jobs but not lucrative work that draws a lot of professionals. In the past in small towns here in Louisiana where oil-field work drew a lot of what we called transients (people who came from other states looking for work) some of these people were running from the law and would get a job offshore in the Gulf and would never come in for fear of being arrested. We had a serial killer a while back that the oil-field drew here that killed children. This is what these Boom Towns draw. There is no time to plan or calculate the risk. We are living the reaction from such a Boom here in Louisiana. I read the local paper today about what I wrote in this original post of the toxic waste that is spreading in the swamp was found also to be radio active. That happens a lot where drilling is going on it is called NORM or Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material is a byproduct of drilling for oil. Some of the drill pipe that is used for drilling for years used to be resold for use in other projects until a lot of the pipe was found to contain radiation higher than considered safe for humans. And we wonder now why we have a high incidence of cancer. I don't know exactly what is done with the pipe now. These Boom towns have been happening since oil was discovered and it seems we haven't learned from the past. In Response to Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil : Posted by creppelrm The earth is full of naturally occuring toxicities. In my area, we have radon - 2nd cause of lung cancer so I hear. But people still flock and build. Things is, even our building codes don't call for testing or the required ventilation system; if you want it, you must go to the expense of putting the vent system in and most people opt not to do it. Did you watch the PBS report? There are growing pains but just the process of the boom is creating tons of jobs because of all the things that are needed and many are not of the low pay type and if you start at some type of lower paid job there are tons of ways to climb the ladder to better and better. Sure there maybe some bad apples but not the majority - many of these people are coming from other areas where jobs have died, never to return - I want to give them and us (that's U.S.) a shot at a better tomorrow. We have to claim our own natural resources rather than dealing with other countries and all that dealing may entail. |
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Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil
posted at August 11, 2012 11:04 AM EDT
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I missed the PBS program, but I did read what was happening in a newspaper article a while back. What happened here in La. a lot of oil companies administrative offices were located in and around La. that employed many of our own who were college grads. Than around the late 80's there was a down turn in the oil business and to save money the oil companies centralized the business in Houston taking these people with them. Since we have been having a brain drain here in La. All of our young and smartest are graduating college and moving to Texas. Not only for the Oil work but electronics industry in Austin etc. We have gotten where if the oil industry goes then what? We definitely have to draw more business here other than oil. Businesses that don't put a strain on the environment as oil did. We need to keep our young and smartest here in this state who can make those changes. In Response to Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil: In Response to Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil : The earth is full of naturally occuring toxicities. In my area, we have radon - 2nd cause of lung cancer so I hear. But people still flock and build. Things is, even our building codes don't call for testing or the required ventilation system; if you want it, you must go to the expense of putting the vent system in and most people opt not to do it. Did you watch the PBS report? There are growing pains but just the process of the boom is creating tons of jobs because of all the things that are needed and many are not of the low pay type and if you start at some type of lower paid job there are tons of ways to climb the ladder to better and better. Sure there maybe some bad apples but not the majority - many of these people are coming from other areas where jobs have died, never to return - I want to give them and us (that's U.S.) a shot at a better tomorrow. We have to claim our own natural resources rather than dealing with other countries and all that dealing may entail. Posted by GailL1 |
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Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil
posted at August 11, 2012 12:30 PM EDT
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First: February 29, 2008 Last: May 17, 2013 |
In Response to "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil: Louisiana was once called the Sportsman Paradise. Not any longer. Louisiana sold it,s soul to the DEVIL when it let BIG OIL in, especially South Louisiana. They have destroyed our marshes and swamps digging thousands of canals through them to locate rigs. Many times not finding oil at all and just leaving without doing anything to minimize the damage. We are losing a foot ball field of marsh here every minute. A lot of it because of Big Oil. That leaves us vulnerable to hurricanes such as what Katrina did us a few years back, Regardless of the levees the marshes were a natural buffer that slowed these storms down before hitting the inhabited areas, now we are losing that buffer zone. One more storm like Katrina and a lot of communities will not be back. We have the most lax environmental regulations in the country. Shipyards still sand blast outside with silica sand and let the run offs go into our bayous, rivers and lakes. Big Oil still pumps toxic waste into salt domes and abandon wells. As I speak a community is evacuated because of toxic waste coming from a salt dome is spreading through a swamp swallowing cypress trees and everything in its path. Many of our communities have faced the same situation this one is now facing. OUR CANCER RATE IS THE HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY. We are last or near last in ever statistic that is good. The only businesses that will locate here are businesses that cannot operate in the rest of the United States because other states EPA regulations would not permit them. An oil company was caught in a lake pumping radio active liquid in a well a few years back and was only caught because it spilled into a lake and a fisherman happened to observe the frantic efforts to contain the spill and let a newspaper reporter know. It was reported but nothing ever became of it. Our governor has cut jobs on the state level with the highest poverty rate being second only to Mississippi. Even with the biggest man made disaster (The BP Oil Spill" that killed thousands of sea birds and countless marine life our politicians continued to criticize the President for stopping drilling in deep water until a fix for the problem could be found. That showed how much we are dependent on Big Oil. We are rich in oil but the State still has no money. When the oil boom is gone here in Louisiana and Big Oil moves on Louisiana will be gone also. Posted by creppelrm According to the AD on TV by BP ....you are so wrong....everything is just "wonderful" and "they care". But then we hear from someone like yourself.....who is well-read....and lives there to tell us all the truth. They must not like you very much. |
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Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil
posted at August 12, 2012 6:59 PM EDT
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First: December 21, 2011 Last: May 18, 2013 |
I've been watching "Cajun Pawn Stars" on the history channel. Those people seem to be doing just fine, with their $20K Mako boats that are tricked out with all sorts of expensive toys. According to an article I read a few months ago in "Chem &Engineering News most of the oil residue from the BP accident has been biodecomposed so it no longer is an issue. Response to "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil: Louisiana was once called the Sportsman Paradise. Not any longer. Louisiana sold it,s soul to the DEVIL when it let BIG OIL in, especially South Louisiana. They have destroyed our marshes and swamps digging thousands of canals through them to locate rigs. Many times not finding oil at all and just leaving without doing anything to minimize the damage. We are losing a foot ball field of marsh here every minute. A lot of it because of Big Oil. That leaves us vulnerable to hurricanes such as what Katrina did us a few years back, Regardless of the levees the marshes were a natural buffer that slowed these storms down before hitting the inhabited areas, now we are losing that buffer zone. One more storm like Katrina and a lot of communities will not be back. We have the most lax environmental regulations in the country. Shipyards still sand blast outside with silica sand and let the run offs go into our bayous, rivers and lakes. Big Oil still pumps toxic waste into salt domes and abandon wells. As I speak a community is evacuated because of toxic waste coming from a salt dome is spreading through a swamp swallowing cypress trees and everything in its path. Many of our communities have faced the same situation this one is now facing. OUR CANCER RATE IS THE HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY. We are last or near last in ever statistic that is good. The only businesses that will locate here are businesses that cannot operate in the rest of the United States because other states EPA regulations would not permit them. An oil company was caught in a lake pumping radio active liquid in a well a few years back and was only caught because it spilled into a lake and a fisherman happened to observe the frantic efforts to contain the spill and let a newspaper reporter know. It was reported but nothing ever became of it. Our governor has cut jobs on the state level with the highest poverty rate being second only to Mississippi. Even with the biggest man made disaster (The BP Oil Spill" that killed thousands of sea birds and countless marine life our politicians continued to criticize the President for stopping drilling in deep water until a fix for the problem could be found. That showed how much we are dependent on Big Oil. We are rich in oil but the State still has no money. When the oil boom is gone here in Louisiana and Big Oil moves on Louisiana will be gone also. Posted by creppelrm |
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Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil
posted at August 12, 2012 7:01 PM EDT
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First: August 9, 2011 Last: May 14, 2013 |
Within a few short years we here in Louisiana especially South Louisiana, have been the recipients the greatest natural disaster (Hurricane Katrina) and the greatest man made disaster (BP oil spill) to ever hit the U.S. Although these were well publicized, we' ve been having similar disasters on a smaller scale going on for years. We have been struck by many hurricanes in the past and I have driven through oil spills in my vessel for miles in the marshes in the past that were never reported. If the marshes were not washing away at such accelerated pace a lot due to oil companies destroying the marshes by these small spills and canal digging, Hurricane Katrina would have not done so much damage. So over the years they have done as much if not more damage than what the BP oil spill has actually done but no one will acknowledge that. The BP oil spill was bad and just how much more can we take before we lose a whole culture here in South Louisiana. Some people believe we are one Hurricane away. In Response to Re: "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil: In Response to "Louisiana" Paradise Lost to Big Oil : According to the AD on TV by B dP ....you are so wrong....everything is just "wonderful" and "they care". But then we hear from someon e like yourself.....who is well-read....and lives there to tell us all the truth. They must not like you very much. Posted by JANMB |
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