“The flag of the oil companies still flies over the Louisiana Capitol today.”
—General Russel Honoré, US Army (Ret.), leader of Louisiana’s GreenArmy, and candidate for governor, commenting on the Louisiana House’s vote Thursday to not only kill future lawsuits against oil companies by levee boards, but to make such prohibition retroactive. The vote kills efforts by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (SELPA-E) to force 97 oil and gas companies to repair the damage they have inflicted on Louisiana’s coastline and marshes over decades of pollution and misuse,.
“Thank all the people who worked to try make the oil industry obey the law and the legislators who voted to do so. I think many of the legislators who voted to kill the lawsuit know perfectly well that they were doing the wrong thing. This fight is not over. We will see you in court. And we will see you at the next election. Apparently a majority of the legislators believe that the oil and gas industry actually is above the law, which is an interesting concept to embrace in the United States.”
—John Barry, teagued by Jindal as vice president of SFLPA-E, and who has continued to fight on behalf of the lawsuit filed last July by SFLPA-E, on the action by the House.
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This needs to happen in their backyard and then they will see the devastation that can be caused by passing such a law.
[…] “Thank all the people who worked to try make the oil industry obey the law and the legislators who voted to do so. I think many of the legislators who voted to kill the lawsuit know perfectly well that they were doing the wrong thing. This fight is not over. We will see you in court. And we will see you at the next election. Apparently a majority of the legislators believe that the oil and gas industry actually is above the law, which is an interesting concept to embrace in the United States.” —John Barry, teagued by Jindal as vice president of SFLPA-E, and who has continued to fight on behalf of the lawsuit filed last July by SFLPA-E, on the action by the House“. https://louisianavoice.com/2014/05/30/notable-quotables-in-their-own-words-225/ […]
When it comes time to elect leaders, where are the people like General Honore and John Barry? We desperately need many more elected officials who care about our state at least enough to attempt to get some kind of reasonable compromise from all the industries bent on destroying our land, water, and air quality in the interests of greed. Of course, we also need enough citizens who care enough to elect such people.
Louisiana Legislature, the finest (NOT) that money can buy.
I think this act calls for a public petition!
Reblogged this on emmeunrestrained and commented:
and this is part of why all the colleges my rising senior is looking at are *not* in Louisiana….
I’m really glad you try to keep awareness of this situation alive. I’ve gotten so frustrated at times – I can rant to Mom for hours about politics, corruption, how big corporations spend millions taking control of state courts, etc. and asked her at one point – how can I be the only one in this family who cares what is going on in this country? Well, she said, your cousin Butch…..and sent me the link to your blog.
I’m inspired to post to you now after watching the episode of Vice on HBO, ‘Crude Awakening and The Enemy of my Enemy.’ Crude Awakening was about the BP oil spill and if you haven’t seen it, please watch it. It had Dr. Riki Ott on the dangers of the dispersant, Corexit, that BP used, Mark Heretzgaard who wrote the Newsweek piece ‘What BP Doesn’t Want You to Know About the 2010 Gulf Spill’, P.S, Hahn, Costal Zone Director for Plaquemines Parish, who dove in the spill, said he soaked his dive gear overnight and next day it was falling apart, and State Sen. A.G. Crowe, who is working to ban the use of Corexit and wrote the President, but never got a response.
Of course, BP, has a whole new webpage devoted to denying just about everything the Vice episode presented. The bottom line is this story is not being covered by mainstream news and the powers that be are succeeding in keeping it, basically, behind a wall. Keep up the good work. Your voice is being heard. I think the destruction of the La. coast is one of the best poster children for just how dangerous big oil owning the government can be. Along with what is starting with them in Greenland, what they’ve done in Papua New Guinea…..on and on. Geez, they are literally destroying the world!