Crime Scene -- New Orleans

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Crime-Scene--New-Orleans-by-Greg-Palast-Chevron_Crimes-Against-Humanity_Exxon_Katrina-140827-341.html



Crime Scene -- New Orleans
By Greg Palast
OpEdNews Op Eds 8/27/2014 at 13:51:03

Nine years ago this week, New Orleans drowned. Don't you dare blame Mother Nature. Miss Katrina killed no one in this town. But it was a homicide, with nearly 2,000 dead victims. If not Katrina, who done it?

It wasn't an Act of God. It was an Act of Chevron. An Act of Exxon. An Act of Big Oil.

Take a look at these numbers dug out of Louisiana state records:

Conoco 3.3 million acres
Exxon Mobil 2.1 million acres
Chevron 2.7 million acres
Shell 1.3 million acres

These are the total acres of wetlands removed by just four oil companies over the past couple decades. If you're not a farmer, I'll translate this into urban-speak: that's 14,688 square miles drowned into the Gulf of Mexico.

[madokie]

1. Damn right it was a crime scene

little boots and his cabal of thieves were responsible for much of the carnage, don't ever forget that. If they'd done their jobs the numbers of dead would have been far and I mean far less

[GliderGuider]

2. Worse damage than rising sea levels will do for the next 100 years... nt