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Why is Gov. Jindal afraid of visiting the sinkhole?

The sinkhole in Bayou Corne -- the one that I've been writing about here since last summer -- is getting simply too big to ignore...or so you would think. At latest report, the gaping hole that has...

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Too little, too late? Jindal to visit sinkhole

How big has the sinkhole in the Louisiana town of Bayou Corne grown? Well, consider this: It's become so big that even the state's environment-unfriendly governor, Bobby Jindal, cannot ignore it...

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Louisiana sinkhole now as large as the Louisiana Superdome

Last week, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal finally answered the question that had lingered in the humid bayou air for months, when he visited the giant sinkhole around Bayou Corne, about 70 miles west of...

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Justice coming too slowly for beleaguered sinkhole residents

It's hard to believe, but with summer upon us we're also getting closer to the one-year anniversary of the sinkhole fiasco in Bayou Corne. That means that roughly 350 residents of this bayou community...

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Sinkhole grows and threatens Bayou Corne

Last weekend Bonny Schumaker from On Wings of Care -- a tireless advocate who's been our not-so-secret weapon in the war for salvation of the ecology of the Gulf Coast -- went up in the skies over...

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It’s going to take years to fix the Louisiana sinkhole

They had another community meeting about the sinkhole crisis in Bayou Corne last night, and like the swamp itself, passions are boiling over. Residents are frustrated with the loss of their homes for...

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The world finally sees what we’ve been watching in Bayou Corne

Over the last 12-plus months, I've written numerous blog posts about the situation in and around the small Louisiana town of Bayou Corne, where warning signs of earth tremors and methane odors gave...

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The Louisiana sinkhole: It gets even worse

The saga of the Louisiana sinkhole just keeps getting worse and worse. Officials with the company that mined the brine under the town of Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish -- the Texas Brine Co. -- and...

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Bayou Corne, natural gas, and the law of unintended consequences

If there's been one common theme in both my life's work as an environmental lawyer and my writing here on this blog, it is that mankind's ever-growing thirst for fossil fuels has many unintended...

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A terrible quick fix for the Louisiana sinkhole

Remember the people who brought you the Louisiana sinkhole, the Texas Brine Co? These are the folks whose drilling activities in a salt cavern underneath a small isolated community about 70 miles west...

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