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The state of Louisiana has set aside $9 million to buy 2,000 acres of swampland in St. James and Lafourche parishes that is partly owned by Charles DeWitt, a former House speaker and Public Service Commissioner.
Government data shows that offshore Gulf Coast pipeline leak rates are 10.28 times the national rate.
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When Hurricane Ida barreled into the Louisiana coast with near 150 mph winds Aug. 29, it left a trail of destruction. The storm also triggered the most Gulf of Mexico oil spills detected from space after a weather event since the federal government started using satellites to track spills and leaks a decade ago.
DeSmog Exclusive: 2020’s Hurricane Zeta Nearly Caused ‘Another Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe’ in Gulf of Mexico The near-miss raises questions of corporate management in a battered oil industry, how drillers will handle increasingly volatile hurricanes, and federal oversight of the offshore drilling industry nearly 11 years after the Gulf of Mexico was coated in oil. The Transocean Deepwater Asgard on January 10, 2018. Credit: Image courtesy of Healthy Gulf It was Thursday, October 22, 2020, when the crew aboard the Transocean Deepwater Asgard, an ultra-deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexi...