Should Louisiana be a sanctuary state for oil and gas? This bill would make it so
Tristan Baurick
A state lawmaker wants to make Louisiana a fossil fuel sanctuary state, quixotically asserting special sovereignty to nullify any federal law, regulation or tax that in any way harms the oil and gas industry.
Rep. Danny McCormick, a Republican from Oil City, a town of about 1,000 residents in northwest Louisiana, says his House Bill 617 is a preemptive effort to protect the industry from the future policies of President Joe Biden s administration. What he ll do, I can t answer yet, McCormick said Wednesday, shortly after the bill was introduced in the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee. There may be no limit to his attacks on the fossil fuel industry.
Louisiana coastal restoration curbed by too little sediment; upriver states have too much
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After almost dying, long rehab in New Orleans, rare sea turtles are released on Grand Isle
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The 10 worst animal invaders in Louisiana: Fire ants, nutria, tiger mosquitos and more
Tristan Baurick
By air, land and sea, Louisiana has been invaded by a host of foreign critters that are wreaking havoc on farms, homes, wetlands and even our health.
Government agencies and conservation groups have spent decades and millions of dollars fighting invasive animals in Louisiana. But try as they might, many of these destructive bugs, fish and mammals are growing in numbers.
We asked invasive species specialist Michael Massimi, who spent years battling invasives with the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program, to highlight the 10 worst animal invaders in Louisiana
Standing on a boat dock in Venice, Gabe Macormic faced a unique challenge: Find someone willing to take a sun-baked, 10-ton heap of dead nutria off his hands.
Macormic had, on a lark, revived the long-dormant Plaquemines Parish Nutria Rodeo, an event that aims to knock back the booming population of orange-toothed, South American rodents that have been devouring Louisiana marshes for almost a century. He expected an extended circle of buddies to participate. They d zip around on airboats, have few laughs, maybe shoot a couple hundred swamp rats.
But when the rodeo began Friday, about 200 hunters showed up. By Saturday night, when prizes were awarded for the most kills and biggest nutria, Macormic was confronting a body count far beyond his expectations: about 1,500 nutria.