I thought the ladybug was waving at me, but then I realized one of its legs was broken.
Sunset over the marshland in Southwest Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
Lights and smoke at Port Fourchon, two years after the Macondo oil well blow out and subsequent six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
The port, located at the state’s southernmost habitable tip, is considered the epicenter for oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico.
The sprawling, 1,700 -acre port is home to 250 companies. It serves as a throughway for more than 15 percent of the nation’s oil supply, according to the Greater Lafourche Port Commission. The port is estimated to generate $4 million in business sales and $950,000 in household earnings throughout south Louisiana.
And about 2,505 workers in the state were let go as a result of the ban, according to a state tally last year of people who filed for unemployment and checked a box saying the drilling moratorium had left them jobless.
More in the article by Cara Bayles.
A Gulf Fritillary on Bayou Lafourche.
White Pelicans over the Falgout Canal, Terrebonne Parish.
“Who will speak for the trees?” asks Heath Frost of Oakland, California. After Pacific Gas and Electric planned to cut down the limbs of the Redwood trees on her property, she began to raise awareness for what she considered to be a hasty and unjust precaution. Redwood trees are notorious for shedding their lower healthy limbs as they grow taller, a danger to the power lines running below them.
