We can't continue to throw good federal money after bad. This is outrageous. The state structure of Louisiana is designed to be a blood sucker off the federal government to give the petroleum industry a comfy nest within the state. ENOUGH!
AP Photo/AL.com, Bill Starling
A year doesn't go by that the people of the USA aren't dumping millions and millions into Louisiana. MOVE THE PORT. Louisiana doesn't deserve it.
This is outrageous. PATHETIC ! Louisiana is a parasite.
A year doesn't go by that the people of the USA aren't dumping millions and millions into Louisiana. MOVE THE PORT. Louisiana doesn't deserve it.
This is outrageous. PATHETIC ! Louisiana is a parasite.
Firefighters (click here) from Mobile, Ala., and U.S. Coast Guard crews responded Wednesday night to four explosions and a fire on fuel barges in the Mobile River....
Louisiana is so dense in petroleum interests it should have a floating rescue armada that puts the US Coast Guard to shame, but, that isn't happening is it?
Louisiana's politics screams CONSERVATIVE so much and so frequently it sounds like a gay legislator that votes to destroy gay rights. Same thing. Louisiana exists on federal money. Enough, already. The Governor doesn't have to get his head off the pillow when an emergency like this happens because he knows the reputation of the waterfront of Louisiana is well known to the US Coast Guard. I don't want to carry the state on the back of the federal government anymore.
"Sequester Louisiana!" it will solve the dilemma with the national debt. No lie. In ten years we won't have to worry about the level of debt to the nation anymore.
Louisiana has vast resources made available to the petroleum industry. The industry is well established there. The people of Louisiana live in poverty paid for by the federal government. Eighty percent of Louisiana's Medicaid is paid for by the federal government PRE-Affordable Care Act. Like, what? And the people of that state are suppose to believe and be brainwashed to believe Jindal would never accept federal monies for Medicaid. Yeah. Right.
Close the port, I am tired of lives hanging in the balance of incompetents in the Louisiana State Government. I don't want anymore Louisiana deaths on my hands. I want NO federal money feeding these dangers to human beings. If the people of the USA are supporting the people of Louisiana through the federal system I want either an end to the dangers as supported by STATE REGULATION AND INSPECTION AND PLENTY OF STATE FUNDING AND/OR no more federal dollars to the state government. I do not want my taxes to go to the deaths in Louisiana supported by NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER currently supported by the state government.
I want out! I want out of all of them. They don't care about people in the Gulf States that have sold out to petroleum industry. They have deregulated every aspect of decency and they don't deserve the monies they get from the federal government.
Gulf of Mexico Fact Sheet (click here)
End the pipelines!
These are the wind maps of the USA. Some of the best places in the country to place wind turbines that would also return shrimp beds and fishing lie along the Gulf Coast. The reason it is not being done is because of the plans for the pipelines and refineries.
From the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. It replaced Minerals Management Service. If the Gulf Coast wants to continue to deprive the people of a decent quality of life then they can do it by themselves.
Offshore Wind Energy (click here)
Louisiana's politics screams CONSERVATIVE so much and so frequently it sounds like a gay legislator that votes to destroy gay rights. Same thing. Louisiana exists on federal money. Enough, already. The Governor doesn't have to get his head off the pillow when an emergency like this happens because he knows the reputation of the waterfront of Louisiana is well known to the US Coast Guard. I don't want to carry the state on the back of the federal government anymore.
"Sequester Louisiana!" it will solve the dilemma with the national debt. No lie. In ten years we won't have to worry about the level of debt to the nation anymore.
Louisiana has vast resources made available to the petroleum industry. The industry is well established there. The people of Louisiana live in poverty paid for by the federal government. Eighty percent of Louisiana's Medicaid is paid for by the federal government PRE-Affordable Care Act. Like, what? And the people of that state are suppose to believe and be brainwashed to believe Jindal would never accept federal monies for Medicaid. Yeah. Right.
Close the port, I am tired of lives hanging in the balance of incompetents in the Louisiana State Government. I don't want anymore Louisiana deaths on my hands. I want NO federal money feeding these dangers to human beings. If the people of the USA are supporting the people of Louisiana through the federal system I want either an end to the dangers as supported by STATE REGULATION AND INSPECTION AND PLENTY OF STATE FUNDING AND/OR no more federal dollars to the state government. I do not want my taxes to go to the deaths in Louisiana supported by NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER currently supported by the state government.
I want out! I want out of all of them. They don't care about people in the Gulf States that have sold out to petroleum industry. They have deregulated every aspect of decency and they don't deserve the monies they get from the federal government.Gulf of Mexico Fact Sheet (click here)
End the pipelines!
From the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. It replaced Minerals Management Service. If the Gulf Coast wants to continue to deprive the people of a decent quality of life then they can do it by themselves.Offshore Wind Energy (click here)
Offshore winds tend to blow harder and more uniformly than on land. The potential energy produced from wind is directly proportional to the cube of the wind speed. As a result, increased wind speeds of only a few miles per hour can produce a significantly larger amount of electricity. For instance, a turbine at a site with an average wind speed of 16 mph would produce 50% more electricity than at a site with the same turbine and average wind speeds of 14 mph. This is one reason that developers are interested in pursuing offshore wind energy resources. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides a number of maps showing average wind speed data through its Resource Assessment & Characterization page and through National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) MapSearch.
Apr. 24, 2013 9:44 PM
Local governing bodies (click here) have filed suit against BP, Halliburton and Transocean for tax and tourism revenue they say they lost as a result of the 2010 oil spill.
Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, school districts in both counties, the city of Pensacola and the Downtown Improvement Board filed the separate suits last week in federal court in Pensacola.
They say they they lost money after the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20, 2010, which dumped 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, soiled more than 1,000 miles of shoreline and ravaged the coast’s ecosystem....
...None of the governing bodies, except for Escambia County and the county’s school district, has received any money for to compensate for lost revenue after filing claims in the past three years, Barr said.
Escambia County settled a claim with BP in early 2011 for $1.84 million in lost revenue and tourism taxes. The same year, the Escambia County School District settled another claim for about $363,000 for money lost between May and September 2010 from local option sales tax revenue.
The suits were filed around the same time the state of Florida became the fourth state to sue for damages from the oil spill. Their suit was filed against BP and Halliburton in U.S. District Court in Panama City....
Apr. 24, 2013 9:44 PM
Local governing bodies (click here) have filed suit against BP, Halliburton and Transocean for tax and tourism revenue they say they lost as a result of the 2010 oil spill.
Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, school districts in both counties, the city of Pensacola and the Downtown Improvement Board filed the separate suits last week in federal court in Pensacola.
They say they they lost money after the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20, 2010, which dumped 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, soiled more than 1,000 miles of shoreline and ravaged the coast’s ecosystem....
...None of the governing bodies, except for Escambia County and the county’s school district, has received any money for to compensate for lost revenue after filing claims in the past three years, Barr said.
Escambia County settled a claim with BP in early 2011 for $1.84 million in lost revenue and tourism taxes. The same year, the Escambia County School District settled another claim for about $363,000 for money lost between May and September 2010 from local option sales tax revenue.
The suits were filed around the same time the state of Florida became the fourth state to sue for damages from the oil spill. Their suit was filed against BP and Halliburton in U.S. District Court in Panama City....
