re: Assumption Parish sink hole environmental impact: Links in OP

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countryboy2

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I admire your passion for the outdoors but let's be realistic here

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You guys should open your freaking eyes. You would think that people that post on the "Outdoors Board" would be lovers of the great outdoors and the waters and bayous of our beautiful state. You better open your eyes. Within the recent future, we won't be able to find one inch of Louisiana soil/water that hasn't been contaminated by oil and gas operations. its fricking shame. At least lawyers hold these guys accountable b/c the legislature certainly wont

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Let's be reallistic here. There are many things as detrimental to the state's ecosystem as oil and gas operations. And yes, landowners are suing oil and gas operators all the time for damages. Many of the damages occured 50+ years ago.

Let's start here with things that have cumulative environmental effects in Louisiana similar or worse than oil and gas activities.

1. Segmenting off blocks of habitat by the construction of highways. Critters stand a much better chance of staying alive crossing a pipeline right-of-way in St. Helena Parish than a highway anywhere.

2. Jackasses trapping hogs and keeping them alive instead of killing them on the spot.

3. Other jackasses transporting live coyotes instead of killing

4. House cats (kill 4 billion animals worldwide annually, and 5 million birds). And they eat less than 20% of what they kill.

5. Overhunting. Louisiana has one of the longest deer hunting seasons in the U.S., with one of the most liberal bag limits, and the highest per capita hunting populations.

6. Strict federal and state regulations regarding marsh creation projects, and the financial burdens which kill many projects that would otherwise provide ecological benefits.

7. Environmentalists that are so anti-progress, that T-Mike and Horace from down the bayou can't get a job on the pipelines anymore, so they start poaching alligators and deer to sell on the black market to pay the mortgage on their trailers.
(This one was a stretch, but fun nevertheless.)


I could go on and on. My point is, there are environmental groups all over that are wanting another Lake Peigneur disaster to happen to add fuel to the fire they are trying to burn oil companies with. Ever since the beginning of human civilization there have been man-made events that have changed the landscape forever. People and animals have adapted. Until someone starts mass-producing affordable semi-trucks, heavy equipment, and passenger vehicles that will run off human piss, we better get used to oil and gas and the way they are obtained.