Will Enviromentalist and the Louisiana Oil Spill Work To Together to Hurt the Environment

No doubt a investigation needs to be done to see what went wrong in the GULF as to the oil spill. Still you will find few people in Louisiana that want to halt off shore drilling. Incidents like this are rare and in the end it is far safer than all these oil tankers going all over the place.

However we are already hearing STOP DRILLING SEE!!

This is the problem. These revenues(that not only are crucial for Louisiana) also are going to be playing a huge role in America biggest National environmental, national Security and economic crisis. Crisis. That is Louisiana Coastal Erosion. While oil soaked birds are tragic they are rare. However there will be no worries of oil soaked Coastline if there is no COAST!! Which is happening.

Louisiana voters approved a constitutional amendment dedicating 100% of state revenue flowing from oil and gas production off the outer continental shelf to coastal restoration and flood protection. The U.S. Congress has to all practical purposes limited this money to no more than $300 million a year, even though such states as New Mexico, Wyoming, and Colorado get many times that from revenues derived from federal land. (The justification for giving states money from federal property is to reimburse them for environmental damage and infrastructure development, but obviously none of them have anything like the environmental damage Louisiana suffers.) But no appreciable money starts flowing until 2017.

This could all be lost under the banner of helping the environment.