Hunting for Oil

Very interesting video. Check it out. I get daily emails from Paul Orr at Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper and never realized how young he is. (or how old I'm getting, LOL)

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Strange burglary

HANCOCK COUNTY -- A Jourdan River Shores resident stopped a robbery at a home here Thursday, saving his neighbor’s power tools and sausage, authorities said.

Deputies responding to a burglary report found Paul Boswell had blocked two Louisiana men inside the residence, investigator Matthew Carver said.

Joshua Alexander Johnson, 24, of Covington, and Jake Vincent Ruffino, 18, of Slidell, were arrested. Items found in the men’s vehicle included a drill press, a professional battery charger, a pellet rifle and several pounds of sausage and other meat, Carver said.

Read more: http://www.sunherald.com/2011/04/22/3049767/2-men-arrested-in-robbery-of-power.html#ixzz1KXSGh9f0 

 

Now this is recycling!

 The first artificial reef constructed from the old Interstate 10 Twin Spans is now in place. The four-acre reef is located between the new I-10 bridge and Highway 11 (Latitude 30° 10.169' Longitude 89° 50.744'). The corners of the reef are marked by four yellow illuminated marker buoys. Sixty spans were dismantled, processed and deployed as reef material. In addition to providing hard-bottom habitat for bottom-dwelling organisms, the reef will create a valuable fish habitat for popular recreational species, including redfish, speckled trout, croakers, sheepshead and drum. The project was a cooperative effort among the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Department of Transportation and Development, Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana and NOAA Office of Coast Survey. Since its creation in 1986, the department's Artificial Reef Program has developed 28 reefs in Louisiana's inshore waters.

 

Lake Catherine's Rebirth

About 15 minutes from downtown New Orleans lies the little slip of land known as Lake Catherine.



Highway 90 is the road that traverses through Lake Catherine and Venetian Isles. For the past month I've been using this route to travel to work due to the heavy road construction taking place on Highway 11 and the twin spans. The commute is a little bit longer, but it allows me to relax while driving rather than dodge those huge deadly dump trucks.

Lake Catherine was literally flattened by Katrina. Before the storm this little community consisted of camps and small waterfront homes for fishermen weekend getaways for people living in the city. In the last three years Lake Catherine has seen a building boom of new camps and huge homes. Click here for a sampling of the various homes in the area.

What I enjoy the most about travelling through Lake Catherine are the signs the residents create for their homes/camps. You can see how people feel about their abodes by their signs. One Saturday hubby and I drove through Lake Catherine and took pictures of most of the signs and here they are. Enjoy!

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Here's another reason I enjoy riding through Lake Catherine

Remembering the Deepwater Horizon 11

This breaks my heart.

American Zombie: Atlas flexes

NOW THIS is how the Gulf Coast REALLY feels about Kenneth Feinberg and the mysterious $20 billion dollar oilspill fund: American Zombie: Atlas flexes

In Memorium

One year later - BP Oilspill

84 bills were introduced in Congress related to the BP oilspill. Two passed the house. None passed the Senate. None

from PewEnvironment.org/OffshoreEnergyReform

Total barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico by the Deepwater Horizon blowout: 4,900,000

Equivalent of that in Exxon Valdez oil spills: 19

Barrels of oil per day BP claimed in its 2009 emergency response plan it could
skim and store in response to a spill in the Gulf: 491,721

Average barrels per day BP actually captured, burned and chemically “dispersed”: 19,251

Gallons of chemical dispersant dumped into the Gulf to try to break down the oil: 1,843,786

Projected three-year loss of tourism revenue for Gulf Coast communities as a result of the spill: $22,700,000,000

Number of active offshore oil platforms in the Gulf: 3,395

Number of them in deepwater (more than 1,000 feet): 64

Underwater depth of the Deepwater Horizon well, in feet: 4,994

Number of Gulf oil platforms in water deeper than that: 11


Underwater depth of the deepest of those, in feet: 8,062
Number of U.S. offshore oil well “incidents” (including fatalities, injuries, fires, and spills)

reported by federal regulators from 2006 through 2009: 3,282

Number of those that included “a loss of well control”: 23

Ratio of government inspectors to oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico: 1 to 54

Percentage of those inspectors who believe they did not receive adequate training: 50

Percent of increase in U.S. offshore oil and gas leasing since 1982: 200

Percent of decrease in staffing resources for federal offshore regulation since 1983: 36

Number of bills introduced in Congress since the Deepwater Horizon blowout that
would reform offshore drilling and/or improve spill response: 84

Number of those bills that have passed the House: 2

Number that have passed the Senate: 0

Figures are the most recently available as of October 26, 2010. Sources at this link

A different perspective

Hubby and I ventured to the Slidell Antique District's biannual streetfair today. Instead of taking pictures of different stands and people, I decided to take pictures of some of the very strange and often weird items for sale. Try to guess which items I labeled "evil". Have fun!

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