Jindal's $1M Hookers Control La. Sinkhole, Wetland Destruction
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Bobby Jindal has received over $1 million in campaign from oil and gas companies, groups told the press on Aug. 28 regarding Gov. Bobby Jindal’s opposition to a lawsuit against Big Energy for environmental destruction.
“There is absolutely no other reason why Bobby Jindal refuses to make the oil industry pay for the coast it acknowledges it destroyed,” said Anne Rolfes, director of Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB). “There’s no other explanation other than the fact he has received over $1 million in contributions.”
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Global Green, League of Women Voters, Levees.org, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Sierra Club and Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans jointly revealed this week Jindal has received over $1 million in campaign funds from oil and gas companies.
The environmental groups showed a list of fossil fuel industry contributors to Jindal’s gubernatorial campaigns starting from 2003 with his first push for governor.
The groups “slammed ‘Million Dollar Man’ Gov. Bobby Jindal for what they call his ‘aggressive stance’ against the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East lawsuit, which targets 97 oil and gas companies for their role in wetlands loss,” The Gambit reports.
“It’s time for these companies not to pay pittance on the dollar but to come and fix the wetlands,” said Sierra Club environmental justice coordinator Darryl Malek-Wiley.
“When you see a guy like Governor Bobby Jindal out there and he’s talking about trying to pick up the oil from the Deepwater Horizon, but the first thing he wants to do is keep drilling,” Greg Palast said when interviewed for The Big Fix. “Where is he getting his money?”
“This moratorium does nothing to reduce our energy needs in this country,” Jindal said at a July 20 Cajun Dome rally in Lafayette to admonish the Obama Administration for the drilling moratorium ninety-two days after the BP Macondo Well oilcano erupted.
“This moratorium is bad for our security, bad for our economy,” said Gov. Jindal.
“Environmental groups in particular always say, ‘the oil industry has raped Louisiana,’” said Dr. Paul Templet, professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State University. “And my response has always been, they haven’t really raped us. They came to us with money in their hands and we said, ‘take us.’
“The political establishment here has been prostitutes to the oil industry, and not high priced call girls; in many cases – cheap hookers.”
Jindal and 2010 BP/Transocean Gulf of Mexico Oil Catastrophe
The following is from the book, Vampire of Macondo, Chapter: Three Drills, One Big Navy Experiment at Time of Explosion and Other Coincidences, Section, 6000 Troops for what and whom?:
“If her asthma keeps up like this, she’ll need to go on her breathing machine tonight,” a South Louisianian’s friend said only three days after the Deepwater Horizon rig and Macondo well exploded, spewing toxic carcinogenic fumes.
The smell of oil was so strong along the coastal Deep South, people were already suffering. They said they could “taste” it (a sign of being poisoned) and were trying to alleviate further breathing problems by closing windows.
Instead of law enforcement, their governor, Bobby Jindal, or anyone protecting residents and tourists from breathing the deadly chemicals, police drove up and down the beach “explicitly telling tourists to ‘just stay out of the water.’”
On April 27, as people had begun suffering from toxic exposure, BP reported its first-quarter profits more than doubled to £3.65 billion following a rise in oil prices and Obama sent 30 swat teams to the oil rigs, as though a terrorist attack was occurring. By April 30, 2010, the Commander in Chief ordered six thousand troops “for a long-term Gulf operation,” according to Defense News. More were placed on standby. (Emphasis added)
Louisiana Governor Jindal’s letters to Defense Secretary Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano said the National Guard “will provide security, medical capabilities, engineers and communication support in response to this threat.”
“They are engaged in the protection of vital infrastructure to include medical facilities, fuel distribution, interstate highways, water/ice distribution and power facilities, which are all vital to the recovery of coastal Louisiana,” Jindal said.
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas also reported being in close contact with state and federal officials, readying to respond with Guard personnel and equipment to assist in their communities. Florida National Guard was prepared to support the state’s Division of Emergency Management, according to public affairs officer Air Force Lt. Col. Ron Tittle. He said it was “hard to speculate on missions they might perform.”
“[O]fficials typically look at how they respond to natural disasters such as hurricanes, providing engineering assets and serving at distribution points for those affected in their communities.
“It just depends,” said Lt. Col. Tittle. “We just look at all the different possibilities and pull out our plans that we use to respond to other types of disasters and adapt a plan accordingly.”
There was no mention of the pending human death toll. Time would show that the National Guard never would provide the urgently needed and anticipated evacuation or medical help as promised. To date, the Guard has provided no help whatsoever for communities.
The Gulf Operation tempo was already “almost as high as Louisiana aviation units deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan experienced,” according to Army Col. Patrick R. Bossetta, commander of State Aviation Command in Hammond, La. Soldiers and airmen “staged for” and “engaged in” planning to evacuate, provide security, and clean up for coastal communities, according to Governor Jindal.
Cajuns and other Gulf coast residents believed that help was forthcoming. They still believed their elected officials, bought by Big Oil.
There are few exceptions to the bought officials, such as Louisiana’s Chris Roberts, Jefferson Parish Councilman.
“We have dealt with the same issues,” Roberts said. “We have gotten the same roadblocks. We requested assets a long time ago.
“You know, we have been in this fight now for 46 days-plus, and it’s just very unfortunate that it seems to me that the same situation is playing out all over the Gulf Coast.”
National Guard operations were necessary and appropriate to protect the region from “a significant national event with potential catastrophic loss of natural resources,” claimed Jindal. (Emphasis added)
What about the people? Was oil the “natural resource” of which Jindal wrote? Time would show no other life form was protected: no flora, no fauna, not the fish nor marine mammals – and least of all, Gulf coast people.
Did the Gulf and its coast need to be acquired for Full Spectrum Dominance – for the financial empire, as some people viewed the event?
“It is long past time for people to stop their allegiance to the American Financial Empire and to begin thinking about their grandchildren’s grandchildren,” Claire M. commented beneath one of Deborah Dupré’s Gulf Operation articles.
“This is one way to get control of the Gulf and other state waters,” Internet user Texas Girl commented. “I have heard that some homes have already been condemned due to oil in the sand around the homes. These homes can’t be sold. So is this a government takeover?
“The people that won’t move die from the spray and poisoned water and food? Too many people I know don’t believe our gov would do this. Wake up. Get your state to pass the 10th Amendment to protect you state from the Fed. Gov.” (Vampire of Macondo, pp 50 – 52)
The scope of this environmental terror is unfathomable. Dr. Riki Ott estimated 4-5 million Gulf Coast residents are suffering or will suffer until death from Gulf Operation human rights violations. EPA whistleblower Hugh Kaufman and the late Matt Simmons both placed that number between 20 million and 40 million.
Jindal’s Big Oil and Gas Sinkhole
Since the April 2010 Gulf oil crime began, women and children have bled from all orifices, similar to the bleeding, dying and dead Gulf dolphins,” just as the dispersant Corexit is supposed to do,” Kaufman said.
Two years after that Gulf Operation began, after citizens complained about gas bubbles in their bayous and after thousands of nearby earthquakes, Jindal declared a state of emergency and mandatory evacuation of Bayou Corne community.
The oil and gas industry had drilled and extracted, with state-authorized permits, to the point that a monster sinkhole was birthed in South Louisiana’s 1-mile by 3-mile Napoleonville Salt Dome.
A host of human rights abuses in nearby Cajun communities followed.
For the oil and gas industry, however, it’s business as usual.
For Jindal and his state officials, it’s ‘Laissez les bons temps rouler!’ (Let the good times roll).
That’s what they’ve written in an invitation to the oil and gas industry profiteers, inviting them to eat, drink and be merry at an upcoming conference they are sponsoring for Big Energy, while the state’s monster, oil and gas man-made sinkhole is swallowing part of the state.
Nevertheless, it is commonly heard, even by some activists, self-appointed leaders of protests against environmental and human life destruction by the fossil fuel industry down there, “We have nothing against the oil and gas industry. We need it!”
Sources: The Gambit, The Big Fix, Vampire of Macondo
Photo Credit: Jonathanferragallery
Disclaimer: The Big Fix director, Josh Tickell is the son of Deborah Dupré
Learn More:
See Deborah Dupré’s other articles on Before It’s News.
Read Dupré’s latest book, “Vampire of Macondo, Life, crimes and curses in south Louisiana that Powerful Forces Don’t want you to know,” – 450 pages of heavily-referenced facts and victim’s accounts of how the U.S. petrochemical-military-industrial complex, that was also involved in Hurricame Katrina, was and is highly involved in the 2010 BP oil catastrophe. The book is packed with mainstream media-censored stories about the BP-wrecked Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico that continues catastrophic human and environmental devastation. (Hard copy and Kindle)
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Bobby Jindal needs to be prosecuted not elected
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