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Erin Brockovich takes on Bayou Corne Sinkhole Case

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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich told a group of Bayou Corne residents on Saturday that standing up and taking legal action against the company that owns a failed salt dome cavern believed to have caused the Assumption Parish sinkhole is the only way they will find relief from the emergency.

"For those of you who are there, I want you to really consider your safety and why you're there," she said. "For those of you who have left, it is time to stand up and say, individually, as a community, as this homeowner, "I'm going to take some action,' and that's why we're here."
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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