Shell Oil Selects Windell Curole & Jerome Zeringue to Lead Privatize & Control, Louisiana & the State's New Coastal Panel

Shell Oil Selects Windell Curole & Jerome Zeringue to Lead Privatize & Control Louisiana, & the State's New Coastal Panel

The State of Louisiana with Lafourche Levee District Commanders Windell Curole and Jerome Zeringue, recklessly charging the way without permits under the Clean Water Act, is committing Billions of $$'s to build a "Leaky Levee" Wall around Louisiana, while coastal scientists-engineers say is faulty, and won't work.

Why is Louisiana committing Billions toward this "Leaky Levee" scam but remains eerily silent about coastal erosion caused by the 10,000 miles of oil company canals and navigational channels dug thru Louisiana wetlands, and the obligations of Shell and other oil companies to fill in these coastal eating monsters?

It's because the State of Louisiana's Coastal Protection Restoration Authority(CPRA) is controlled and manipulated by Shell Oil's Americas' Wetlands, whose chairman R. King Milling is also chair of CPRA.

How has Shell Oil, who has raped and polluted Louisiana, turned around and privatized Louisiana? Well, taking the ex President of Whitney Bank R. King Milling and making him chairman of Shell's Americas' Wetlands, and then in a swoop making him chair of Louisiana's Coastal Protection Restoration Authority(CPRA) is a most obvious example. However, let's peek behind the curtain, and also look at how Shell has taken over the City of New Orleans.

Shell created the "Aubudon Institute", an environmentally friendly name. This "Shell for Shell" conglamerate has gobbled up and privatized huge chunks of City and Federal properties and infrastructures.

The Audubon Institue-Shell Oil company privatized invaluable public space like the New Orleans Audubon Zoo. They tore down invaluable green space for a parking lot, and installed their man Ron Foreman as director.

The Audubon Institute under Ron Foreman eventually had their tentacles tear down a much loved New Orleans Aubudon Park Golf center amidst an uproar from local residents.

Ron Foreman's response? Bull doze ahead and dam the locals. The Audubon Institute knows what to do with public park space better than local residents. Save Audubon Park!

Back down by the French Quarter, the Audubon Institute privatized the Mississippi river front property for their Aquarium amidst an uproar from preservationists such as Vieux Carre Property Owner's Association and their attorney Jim Derbes. The Audubon Institute aka Shell Oil Company has privatized a huge swath along the Mississippi river for their Waldenburg Park. They have constructed countless statues and monuments without any approvals from the Vieux Carre Commission. Dam the unique and distinct character of the Vieux Carre. The Audubon Institute-Shell rules.

Downtown New Orleans, the Audubon Institute has privatized the U.S. Custom House. Amidst much controversy, they have plans to install an "Insectarium".

In the Warehouse District, Shell has joined with Freeport Moran for the Contemporay Arts Center.

Over in New Orleans east, Audubon Institute-Shell opened up a "Nature Center" to brainwash the youth, educating them in Shell Oils point of view, concerning "greenhouse" gases and loss of wetlands etc. etc.

To keep the people "dancin and eatin", Shell now sponsors the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and in 2007 the New Orleans Seafood Festival.

Shell Oil is one of the world's largest polluters and emitters of green house gases, and yet receives an environmental award from New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who can't even get a recycling program or bottle deposit bill started.

The best Mayor Ray Nagin can do is increase garbage collection from a $7 million dollar contract to $33 million dollars, and force giant garbage cans upon the historic New Orleans neighborhoods.

In regard to wetlands, Shell created "America Wetlands," WHICH IS A SHELL FOR SHELL. America Wetlands says we have to save wetlands with $ monies $ appropriated from taxpayers-not a peep about Shell and their oil greasy allies' destruction of Louisiana coastal zone by their 10,000 miles of canals and navigational channels. And therefore, Shell under the 'America Wetlands shell' silently slinks away from their responsibility to remedy the coastal erosion caused by these 10,000 miles of wetland oil canal cancers.

The Louisiana Coastal Restoration Protection Authority(CPRA) was set up under Governor Kathleen Blanco to establish a Master Plan to restore Louisiana's disappearing coast. The CPRA has been seized by Shell's America Wetlands, which is actually a public relations scheme created by Shell Oil Company. Therefore nothing is being done to force oil companies to take responsibility for massive erosion caused by their over 10,000 miles of canals and navigational channels gutting thru Louisiana wetlands.

There's a reason today why our cities are choked full of loud-gas-oil-polluting buses rather than environmentally friendly trolley-streetcars. Today, there's a reason why we don't have electric cars charged with solar power.

There's a reason why big oil favorite Senator Mary Landrieu votes to drill in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge Center.

There's a reason why R. King Milling, ex Whitney Bank President, sits with a Shell Oil hat on one head and Wetland hat on other head. And why today, greenhouse gases are out of control, and more violent, bigger hurricanes, droughts, and fires are on their way, and Louisiana is disappearing while 10,000 miles of oil company canals and navigational channels are not considered in being filled as part of Louisiana's master coastal plan, not a peep not a word.

Yes, and finally there's a reason why Windell Curole and Jerome Zeringue, who spearhead the Morganza "Leaky Levee" scam, in June 2008 have been selected by Shell Oil Americas' Wetlands controlled Coastal Protection Restoration Authority(CPRA), to lead the new state coastal planning panel. It's called "business as usual".

And so it goes.

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Shell Oil Selects Windell Curole & Jerome Zeringue to Lead Privatize & Control Louisiana, & the State's New Coastal Panel