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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 01:54 AM
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Katrina environmental issues "almost unimaginable"
By Jim Loney
Tue Sep 6, 3:18 PM ET

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina left behind a landscape of oil spills, leaking gas lines, damaged sewage plants and tainted water, Louisiana's top environment official said on Tuesday.

In the state's first major assessment of the environmental havoc in southern Louisiana, Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Mike McDaniel said large quantities of hazardous materials in damaged industrial plants, the danger of explosions and fires and water pollution were his main concerns eight days after the storm struck.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050906/sc_nm/environment_dc
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 01:56 AM
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1. Well, no one could have anticipated this environmental damage.
If they did, they would have moved heaben and earth to prevent or mitigate it. :sarcasm:
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