as the river moves through the e.c.m. it brings all those nutrients down with it because it's algae blooms which you suck the oxygen and cause what's called a dead stop and slow are no. makes sense from the mouth of the mississippi all the way into texas. no fish no crabs all the type of aquatic organisms that they normally catch so it's having an impact on how united states but it's only quote in fact in the economic base along the coastal areas. and. occasionally feel the food and music right people one of the richest places in the world but now a natural resources are something that folks who have been in power have abused and neglected. two hundred petrochemical plants line eighty five miles of the mississippi river between baton rouge and new orleans. they produce over twenty five percent of the petrochemicals made in the united states. it's known as cancer alley. the boy when i brought my son michael holmes from the hospital they tell me he might be blind deaf or brain damaged and certainly more yet more susceptible

executives and people like that it's the oil industry ultimately choose the ruling elites who run the e.c.m. . it's one of the costs of oil that's never figured into the price of oil which is why gasoline so cheap because we don't put all the call sandwiches bannock amounts certainly is bad environmentally. b.p.s. it falls tolls fall and so shouldn't because it's a quote mint that failed but we americans shit a fair amount of the blame. most of us on the nile about the whole energy situation the reason they are they getting the oil is we demanded and they can still make money on. b.p. oil on a river of us is not going to go drill in one mile deep water if they all make money. but they can make money because all energy policy. they're gonna keep drilling and it's gonna happen again the industry is going to change the federally this is my i love song they're going to be fools not to but pollution is pretty powerful i'm sure they're up there lobbying in the halls of legislature in the halls of the agency every day every hour. we all give up very tenacious we love where we live and we think whe