It was not a hurricane named Katrina that wrecked New Orleans. It was big oil, big industry and the big, everyday deceptions peddled by mass media and entertainment complex and consumed as news by the American people. Every square foot of wetlands that disappears from the Gulf Coast offers greater opportunities for the petroleum industry.
Petroleum companies have already set up rigs in other New Orleans communities and witnesses have seen people prospecting for oil in the Lower Ninth Ward. Like the people of New Orleans and rural Gulf Coast communities, the lingering wetlands are obstacles to more oil and more profit. It’s not over, the remaining wetlands can be restored, recovery is possible, Mother Nature is our biggest ally, and hopelessness, denial and fear are our biggest enemies.
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Part Two of Interview with Tab Benoit in Houma
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keith harmon snow is an independent war correspondent, photojournalist and human rights investigator. He has received three Project Censored awards for his Africa reportage and has recently worked in Central Africa and Afghanistan. His work can be seen at www.allthingspass.com and he is a member of the Asiana Press Agency (www.asiana-press-agency.com).
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