Road to Recovery Sinking into Gulf

USA Today – This is the intersection of a fading Cajun dream, where French-speaking immigrants once fished and farmed sugarcane and cotton, and the jarring new reality that has transformed a deteriorating two-lane highway into an energy artery that carries crude oil and natural gas from the Gulf to the rest of the USA…

Nowhere in Louisiana are the nation’s needs and the local population’s desires so closely aligned as on the crumbling asphalt ribbon that reaches to Port Fourchon at the state’s southern tip. Fourchon supply boats serve the giant Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, 18 miles into the Gulf, which offloads crude oil supplies from foreign tankers, and 75% of all deep-water Gulf oil and gas drilling.
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