tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64195516399996632932024-03-14T00:46:10.337-05:00A Voice In The WetlandsPostings from Louisiana's Bayou Country.JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-29735234568174427992011-06-01T09:53:00.000-05:002011-06-01T09:53:54.814-05:00Hommage à la Louisiane .... RevisitedFilm released by National Wildlife Federation on Jun 30, 2010<br />
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NWF asked a diverse group of locals in Venice, La what they love about their home state. We then asked them what they feared most about the BP Oil Spill. This was their answers. Music by The Lost Bayou Ramblers.<br />
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<b>Update posts will reveal that many of these fears have come true.</b><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-37996965174770366672011-05-31T12:57:00.000-05:002011-05-31T12:57:21.660-05:00BP Oil Spill Disaster: An Indigenous Perspective Revisited<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Native American Tribe faces the BP Oil Spill</span> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/Vtpyx_ur6dc/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vtpyx_ur6dc&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vtpyx_ur6dc&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a class="author" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/NationalWildlife" rel="author"><span style="color: #4272db;">NationalWildlife</span></a> <span class="watch-video-date" id="eow-date">Jun 27, 2010</span></div>The <strong>Atakapa Ishak tribe</strong> of coastal Louisiana has inhabited the region for time without number. In the 21st century they still maintain a lifestyle and culture that is inherited from their ancestors. Now, in the wake of the BP Oil Spill, they struggle to keep their identity and their way of life.<br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-46467718267591122822011-04-14T07:15:00.002-05:002011-04-14T07:22:19.184-05:00BP BANS CNBC CAMERA CREWS ACCESS TO AGM<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42585469">BP Deny CNBC Viewers Access to AGM - CNBC</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/Sections/News_And_Analysis/__Story_Inserts/Bylines_VanityPlates/Vanity%20Plates/images/westgate_commentary_100x130.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="130" width="100" src="http://media.cnbc.com/i/CNBC/Sections/News_And_Analysis/__Story_Inserts/Bylines_VanityPlates/Vanity%20Plates/images/westgate_commentary_100x130.jpg" /></a></div>Excerpt: "This ban applies not only to our camera crew but also to our satellite truck for live broadcast which has been refused permission to operate from any area owned by Excel, which includes, as we have discovered, all the parking lots of the hotels within the locale" Ross Westgate CNBC Anchor. <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/42585469">read Full Story<br />
</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-77395163976714890422011-04-14T03:26:00.000-05:002011-04-14T03:26:22.349-05:00Gulf Oil Spill Song inna Reggae Stylee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/17WLmFWYsyk?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"THE GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL" [V 2] </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">By HIGHAH SEEKAH </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lyrics</span></div>Intro<br />
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The Second Angel blew his Trumpet<br />
And something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea<br />
A third of the sea became blood<br />
A third of the living creatures in the sea died<br />
And a third of the ships were destroyed<br />
Revelation 8 verse 8 and 9<br />
Is this that time?<br />
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Chorus<br />
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Oh the oil spill<br />
Gulf of Mexico oil spill<br />
Ocean life a die still<br />
While they pointing fingers Mama Earth a cry still<br />
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The oil spill<br />
Gulf of Mexico oil spill<br />
What price will<br />
We pay, Mama Earth a cry still<br />
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Verse 1<br />
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Washing up on a beach near you could it come close<br />
Or change the world temperature or cause famine and drought (huh)<br />
Life from Fort Lauderdale Florida east coast<br />
This is Highah Seekah The Journalis, I am your host<br />
Speaking of Florida, off towards its western coast<br />
Out in the Gulf of Mexico, a disaster grows<br />
On April twenty twenty ten Deepwater Horizon blows<br />
Millions a gallons a oil, into the sea it flows (Damn)<br />
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Chorus<br />
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Oh the oil spill<br />
Gulf of Mexico oil spill<br />
Ocean life a die still<br />
While they pointing fingers Mama Earth a cry still<br />
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The oil spill<br />
Gulf of Mexico oil spill<br />
What price will<br />
The planet pay, Mama Earth a cry still<br />
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Verse 2<br />
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Crying and she's bleeding as she's never bled<br />
From the wound of an exploded, oil well-head<br />
Will the plants and sea animals, end-up dead<br />
Will the sea become like blood, end-up red<br />
How will this, affect the planet, and the land we living on<br />
The mammals, the fish, the phytoplankton<br />
The cause, corporate commercial exploitation<br />
Effects more environmental damage by man (certain greedy man)<br />
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Chorus<br />
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Oh the oil spill<br />
Gulf of Mexico oil spill<br />
Ocean life a die still<br />
While they pointing fingers Mama Earth a cry still<br />
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The oil spill<br />
Gulf of Mexico oil spill<br />
What price will<br />
We pay, Mama Earth a cry still<br />
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Verse 3<br />
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Oil reflects sunlight and blocks evaporation<br />
Which stops condensation, less rainfall and precipitation<br />
With less moisture in the air for re-distribution<br />
Big effects on global temperature and food production<br />
And if that loop current takes it to the Atlantic Ocean<br />
And it reaches the beaches of the east coast and<br />
Pollute Wildlife, rivers yow the repercussion<br />
It will be worse than the damn recession (worse)<br />
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Chorus<br />
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Oh the oil spill<br />
Gulf of Mexico oil spill<br />
Life a die still<br />
While they pointing fingers Mama Earth a cry still<br />
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The oil spill<br />
Gulf of Mexico oil spill<br />
What price will<br />
We all pay, Mama Earth a cry still<br />
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The oil spill<br />
Gulf of Mexico oil spill<br />
Mama Earth a cry still<br />
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This song was written to keep the focus on the BP oil spill disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. This is already the largest environmental disaster in United States History. Dedicated to the 11 men who lost their lives on April 20th, 2010.<br />
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1st Verse:<br />
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The wave crests on fire<br />
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And storm clouds below<br />
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The oozing dark monster<br />
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Creeps silently slow<br />
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The heartache of many<br />
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The future unclear<br />
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We stand on the shoreline<br />
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Surrounded by fear<br />
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Chorus:<br />
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There's a hole in the ocean<br />
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That's breaking my heart<br />
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When will it end<br />
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Why did it start?<br />
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Can we ever return<br />
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To our blue watered bay<br />
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There's a hole in the ocean<br />
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That stands in our way<br />
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2nd Verse:<br />
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For the diving birds diving<br />
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And the fish 'neath the waves<br />
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There is so much to do<br />
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There is so much to save<br />
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With bitter tears stinging<br />
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For the ones who were lost<br />
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Is there really a way<br />
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To assess what this cost?<br />
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Bridge:<br />
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Eleven souls sailing<br />
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That April day<br />
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It happened so quickly<br />
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'Twas no time to pray<br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-8279245631621760492011-01-07T09:07:00.004-06:002011-01-07T09:13:40.048-06:00Louisiana's Culture of Fishermen Ponder Future<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Son of the Bayou, Torn Over the Shrimping Life</span></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Aron Greco took his new fishing boat for a test run in November. Only a few thousand Louisianians now make their living fishing, but Aaron had been drawn to it since childhood</em></span>.</span> </span><br />
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By <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/amy_harmon/index.html?inline=nyt-per">AMY HARMON</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>DELACROIX ISLAND, La</strong>. — “Hold up, Aaron,” Buddy Greco instructed his son as they bent over a sheet of fiberglass on the docked fishing boat. “You still cuttin’ it wrong.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His tone on that hot afternoon last June was not unkind. But Aaron, 19, was tired of listening to his father, tired of fixing up the boat for a shrimp season that might never open, tired of wondering whether the future he had set his sights on was dissolving in front of him. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Earl and Julie McElroy pose in front of their home, which won first place in The Courier and Daily Comet’s holiday lights photo contest, Monday in Houma.</span></div><br />
<strong>HOUMA</strong> — It started as a partnership between husband and wife nearly 30 years ago. Today, the home of Earl and Julie McElroy is known for coming alive with 200,000 lights each Christmas, delighting neighborhood kids and parents alike.<br />
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Their house at 142 Cleveland St., awash with multicolored lights on nearly every square inch of the walls, roof and yard, was voted by readers as the first-place winner of The Courier’s holiday lights contest.<br />
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Earl McElroy, 70, a native of Ashland and an operations manager for Gulf States Engineering in Houma, puts up the display each year. He often stands outside dressed as Santa to complement the display, greeting those who come by. But for him, the famous light show is about much more than glitz and glamor.<br />
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“It’s really not about the lights. It’s about the people,” McElroy said. “They just enjoy themselves.” <strong><a href="http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20101224/ARTICLES/101229690/1211?p=all&tc=pgall#">Read Full Story</a></strong> <br />
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By <a href="mailto:kathrine.schmidt@houmatoday.com">Kathrine Schmidt</a>/<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Staff Writer <a href="http://www.houmatoday.com/">HoumaToday.com</a></em></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-23812401304707031492010-12-23T23:33:00.004-06:002010-12-24T06:40:04.006-06:00Houma Bids Historic Church Farewell<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Parishioners say goodbye to St. Matthew's</span></strong> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Rev. Craig Dalferes and his congregation gather for a prayer service Wednesday morning before demolition begins at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church.</span> <br />
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</div><strong>HOUMA</strong> — As the construction equipment started knocking down the back of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Wednesday, Dana Davis began to cry. <br />
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“Everything wonderful and everything sad happened here,” Davis said. Davis, like the rest of the church parishioners at the site, were there to take one last look at the building. St. Matthew's was destroyed in the early hours of Nov. 11 by a fire.<br />
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The Rev. Craig Dalferes led the group in a prayer, sprinkling the site with holy water. “We are here to honor the closing of one chapter and the opening of a new one,” Dalferes said. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20101223/ARTICLES/101229751/1211?p=all&tc=pgall#"><span style="font-size: small;">READ FULL STORY</span></a> </span><br />
By:<a href="mailto:eric.heisig@houmatoday.com"> Eric Heisig</a> /<em>Staff Writer</em> <a href="http://www.houmatoday.com/">HoumaToday.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-8941524955686339362010-12-21T23:02:00.000-06:002010-12-21T23:02:16.996-06:00Santa leads a fleet of boats down the bayou.<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>Christmas Boat Parade</strong></span> </span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="art_byline"><strong>HOUMA</strong> — An inventory of environmental impacts from the BP oil spill may take as long as two decades to complete, a top aide to Gov. Bobby Jindal said. But with Louisiana’s deteriorating coast on the line, the state is lining up emergency restoration projects it wants BP to pay for today. <a href="http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20101220/ARTICLES/101229960/1211?p=all&tc=pgall">Read Full Story</a></div><div class="article_text article_paragraph0"><br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-44532912930214803142010-12-02T09:58:00.003-06:002010-12-23T23:08:18.578-06:00Before Katrina, Before the Oil Spill<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this post I share a few photos of my Bayou Country world. All photos taken before Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike (yes they all hit where I live). This beautiful place is just not the same and never will be again.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The disappearing marshes and the devastating effect of the oil spill means drastic changes for many. It meant serious changes for me.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lone Horns Grazing in the Oil and Gas Fields</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Green Beauty" height="325" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb245/jahnessasworld/trees/000_0005-2.jpg" title="Green Beauty" width="500" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lazy Days on the Bayou.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sunset at Port Fourchon Beach before Rita destroyed it and Ike finished the job. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Back then you could drive on the beach, park next to the water and camp under the stars. I miss those days.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-24228377010538495142010-07-13T08:29:00.000-05:002010-07-13T08:29:34.973-05:00Bird's Eye View of Barataria Bay Wetlands<center><br />
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<b>GULF COAST</b> - Drew Wheelan, ABA Conservation Coordinator, tags along with the <b>Lower Mississippi River and Achafalaya Basin Keepers</b> for a fly over of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Barataria Bay region of coastal Louisiana. South Wings Aviation provided the flight that gave Drew the opportunity to document a "bird's eye view" of the marsh islands that many species of wildlife call home. <br />
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Video recorded on day seventy-four of <b>"The Disaster in the Gulf"</b>, just after Hurricane Alex passed through the region. The flight goes over several colonies of birds, including Pelicans, Gulls, Herons and Terns that are being hit hard by the oil and mother nature. </div><br />
PLEASE NOTE: There was a heavy haze that day but Drew's determination carried him through. Thanks Drew for your dedication to help protect our precious wetlands.<br />
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</div></div><div class="cl_right" style="background-color: white; padding-bottom: 1em;">A baby Kemp's ridley sea turtle, an endangered species, receives care from veterinary technicians after being rescued from oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The turtles are cleaned and rehabilitated at the Audubon Center for the Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans.</div><div class="cl_left"></div>JANET McCONNAUGHEY<br />
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<b>FORT JACKSON</b> — The smallest victims are the biggest challenge for crews rescuing birds fouled with oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill.<br />
<div align="justify">There's no way to know how many chicks have been killed by the oil, or starved because their parents were rescued or died struggling in a slick.<br />
"There are plenty of oiled babies out there," said Rebecca Dmytryk of the International Bird Rescue Research Center, one of the groups working to clean oiled animals.<br />
The lucky ones end up in a cleaning center at Fort Jackson, a pre-Civil War historic site on the Mississippi River delta south of New Orleans.<br />
Pelican chicks often come in cold because oil has matted down the fluffy down that's meant to keep them warm. They must be warmed quickly just to survive long enough to be cleaned. And the youngest must be taught to eat.<br />
"They only know their parents regurgitating food into their mouths. They don't know how to pick stuff up," said Dmytryk, whose organization is working with Tri-State Bird Rescue, a company hired by BP to coordinate animal rescue and cleaning in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.<br />
That means tube feeding three times a day. Others, a bit older and accustomed to taking fish from a parent's throat, must be hand-fed until they can eat fish from a bowl.<br />
Adults can be checked a few times a day, but babies needed two staffers' full-time attention to be sure they are eating and are warm.<br />
Many adults and juvenile pelicans get coated with heavy oil diving for fish. That doesn't happen with the chicks, though they may wade into oily puddles or get smeared by oil from their parents' feathers.<br />
In general, rescuers don't go into nesting colonies, said Mike Carloss, a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist. He said most rescued chicks were near shorelines or were on nests so low that oil washed onto them.<br />
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</p><p>And with more and more Gulf clean-up workers complaining of headaches, sore throats and nausea, Dr. Riki Ott, marine toxicologist and Exxon Valdez survivor, is getting an unwanted wave of déjà vu.<br />
</p><p>"We got hard hats instead of respirators, just like you," Dr. Ott recalled. "The material safety data sheet for this oil, it says it's a respiratory irritant. It's all concentrated right where the slick hits the surface, so anything that is on that seawater interface is at risk, like dolphins, sea turtles and the workers in their boats trying to respond to this without respirators."<br />
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NEW ORLEANS — Celebrity Chef Frank Brigtsen coated the squid in a perfect blend of seasoned cornmeal then dropped the batch into a vat of oil at Charlie's Seafood, a beloved neighborhood joint.<br />
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After a lifetime in Louisiana, 38 years as an architect of Creole cuisine inspired by the gifts of the Gulf of Mexico, this was one of the first times he had served diners fried calamari.<br />
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Before BP oil's endless flow threatened the supply and upped price of fish and shellfish by up to 30 percent, a hankering for southern fried seafood at this 60-year-old landmark would have yielded a heaping plate of crispy Louisiana oysters.<br />
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"'Charlie's is a place that celebrates Louisiana seafood and here I am frying calamari from Rhode Island," says Brigtsen, an award-winning chef who also owns his eponymously named contemporary Creole cuisine restaurant uptown. "I feel like somehow I am betraying my customers by not giving them oysters. I feel like I am wearing someone else's clothes." <a href="http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20100707/FEATURES12/100709580/1292?Title=As-oil-spills-Gulf-oysters-give-way-to-Rhode-Island-calamari"><b>READ COMPLETE STORY</b></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-47218889215064117292010-07-07T06:45:00.002-05:002010-07-07T11:55:24.452-05:00Louisiana's Gov Jindal to Allow Concealed Guns in Church<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1669084012"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; word-spacing: 2px;">But when it comes to sizing up the lost wages and jobs from BP’s catastrophic oil spill to boat captains, deckhands and charter captains in Louisiana, numbers showing the impact on Houma-Thibodaux are much harder to come by.</span><br />
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COCODRIE — For the first full day in a week, crews on land and at sea scouted for and cleaned up oil Saturday, making what they said appeared to be solid progress against the Gulf spill in Terrebonne and Lafourche.<br />
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“They are heroes,” Lafourche Parish government spokesman Brennan Matherne said of the shrimp boats, which operated around Timbalier Bay and adjacent waters. “I am hearing more and more how impressed the Coast Guard is with our fishermen and their efforts. Had it not been for their hard work and tremendous effort, we would have had much more of an impact.”<br />
Terrebonne Parish, ground crews worked on barrier islands, where large swaths of medium-to-light consistency sheen left its mark on the beaches.<br />
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No large patches of oil such as those seen earlier in the week were spotted heading into the barrier island passes.<br />
“There was a big crew working on Timbalier Island today,” said Terrebonne Parish Public Safety Director Ralph Mitchell. <a href="http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20100704/FEATURES12/100709771/1292?Title=Oil-cleanup-efforts-progress">READ MORE </a><br />
</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-55448469434378068572010-07-03T18:40:00.003-05:002010-07-03T18:48:07.540-05:00Grand Terre, Only Accessible by Boat, No Protection and Large Deposits of Oil<a href="http://www.thelafourchegazette.com/article.php?id=N3597"><h1 style="text-align: center;">WHAT OILY UNTENDED BOOM REALLY LOOKS LIKE!</h1></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Grand Terre Island, just a 1/4 mile from Grand Isle, and only accessible by boat, had virtually no protection and large deposits of oil could be seen around its shores. Storms and windy conditions happen in an instant and pushes boom up on the shores rendering them useless. </b></div><b></b><br />
<b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Photo by Lars Gange Published in Lafourche Gazette</b></span></div></b> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-89473540881977745792010-07-03T09:25:00.002-05:002010-07-03T17:34:21.487-05:00Holiday Weekend No Holiday for Island Community<div style="float: center;margin: 0 8px 0 0;"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb245/jahnessasworld/native%20pople/oilspill/grandislewoes.jpg"> </div><div class="pic_caption" style="font-weight:bold; padding:0"><a class="buy" href="http://reprints.dailycomet.com/cgi-bin/fotobroker.cgi?c=latest.htm&a=&op_by_line=contains&by_line=Schwarze&b=photo_db&s=&t=&show=3-4">Buy photo</a> <br />
</div><div class="cl_right" style="padding-bottom:1em"><p><b>Lisa Owens of Raceland and her son Brad look off the pier Friday at Grand Isle State Park. Lisa has been visiting Grand Isle often since she was a child. “It's sad,” she said, referring to oil hitting the beach. “I just worry about the poor animals.”</b><br />
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<div align="justify"><p>GRAND ISLE — There will be fireworks and parties, like every Fourth of July, on this island where the essence of existence is having a good time no matter what trials may come.<br />
</p><p>But Grand Isle's legendary joie de vivre, like the marsh plants along its storm-tossed passes, are soaked heavy with the oil from the ongoing Deepwater Horizon disaster.<br />
</p>While residents try to keep up appearances, the makeup is wearing a bit thin.<br />
<p>During the last holiday weekend, Memorial Day, the excitement of a presidential visit was enough of a sideshow to eclipse the specter of oil fouling cherished beaches. A dogged determination to have fun dictated that even if the annual trout-fishing rodeo was canceled, there would be dancing and drinking despite it all. The beach may be closed, but creative signs and dioramas of protest took the edge off. <a href="http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20100703/ARTICLES/100709807/1292?Title=Spill-affects-holiday-weekend-for-island-community"><b>READ COMPLETE STORY</b>Y</a> </p></div><br />
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</div><div class="cl_right" style="padding-bottom:1em;">Capt. Dinh Pham (left) and deckhand Johnny Tran of Venice work Wednesday to install a generator on their vessel docked at Bouquet Seafood in Chauvin. The boat was working to clean up oil but was forced to dock because of weather.</div><br />
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<p>COCODRIE – Small patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill began moving north of Terrebonne Parish's barrier islands Wednesday, a day when cleanup efforts were sidelined by heavy seas and winds related to Hurricane Alex, which was close to making landfall on the Texas-Mexico border. <a href="http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20100701/FEATURES12/100709948/1292?Title=Oil-patches-move-north-of-barrier-islands&tc=ar"><b>READ FULL STORY</b></a> </p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-71875036314015726952010-06-19T23:08:00.000-05:002010-06-19T23:08:42.732-05:00Florida Legal Team Hears Complaints About BP Claims<div align="justify"><p><p>Florida counties and cities in the path of the Gulf oil spill have not the slightest idea at this point how they could be impacted economically.</p><p>Little wonder. Even the state tax collection agency is at a loss, trying to calculate the costs involved in an ever-changing, ever-moving, ever-growing target.<br /><br />Attorney General Bill McCollum and former attorneys general Bob Butterworth and Jim Smith sought information Tuesday that the state will need to create a process for recouping its losses. The team is gathering information should it seek litigation against BP, which it has not decided to do. The three hoped to come out of the meeting with recommendations about how to refine the claims process.<br /><br />“We don’t know how long this is going to take,” McCollum told the press before the meeting. “We don’t know the severity of it at the end of the day. What we do know is, we need a process.”<br /><br />The 26 Florida counties affected need more money and information about the actions the state is taking in compensation for losses from BP, Ginger Delegal, general counsel for the Florida Association of Counties, told the legal team. The claims process has been confusing and lengthy, she said. <br /><br />Counties have needed to compensate for a change in the claims process that requires them to submit claims directly to BP, instead of submitting them to the state. Two counties have submitted claims this way so far, Delegal said. The change was precipitated by Louisiana parishes that wanted to deal directly with the company. Right now, the counties don’t know if this way works, Delegal said.<br /><br />Butterworth said state litigation against BP “may be very, very likely,” but the state needs be careful not to get caught in a lengthy legal battle that produces no results. <br /><br />Smith cautioned claimants not to rush to file lawsuits, as heavy litigation “would get BP to stop working with us.” <br /><br />
<a href="http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/state-legal-team-hears-complaints-about-bp-claims"><b>READ COMPLETE STORY AT SunshineStateNews.com</b></a><br />
</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">By JAHnessa</div>JAHnessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18336604172543366770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419551639999663293.post-70149316563664161762010-06-19T14:10:00.008-05:002010-06-19T14:30:55.878-05:00Dolphins in a dying Gulf - Greenpeace USA<div style="float: left;margin: 0 8px 0 0;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4701445927_a123b438bc.jpg" width="325" height="235" alt="" border="0"> </div><div align="justify"><p>Greenpeace's team on the Gulf Coast has been taking independent scientists, media teams, and local grassroots organizations out into Barataria Bay, one of the areas hardest hit by the oil disaster, to help assess the full scope of this tragedy and the true cost of our reliance on fossil fuels.<br />
</p><p>Every day we have been out on the water here, we have been joined by dozens of dolphins, sometimes playing in the distance and sometimes swimming right alongside the Greenpeace boats.<br />
<a href="http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/greenpeaceusa_blog/2010/06/18/dolphins-in-a-dying-gulf"><b>Read Complete Story of - Dolphins in a dying Gulf - Greenpeace USA</b> Blog</a><br />
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