after the two thousand and five hurricane season the louisiana department of environmental quality estimated that at least nine million gallons of oil spilled across the state and in the car. spills have been considered business as usual in the easy for a long time. the policy of coming. up to to model itself. call it a good name. to tell you what it was that they wanted. yes july twenty third there was a down taker that ran into a wayward barge that the tanker pierced the barge basically cut it now while was covering the river from bank to bank for miles this isn't a uncommon occurrence for us with the willing gas industry that we have here is a predominate environmental factor. mississippi river is used as a drinking source for metropolitan new orleans and for of point south of here so immediately we shut down those water intakes and started the process of bringing in drinking water for the residents of this area after a couple of days we found loyal almost all the way to venice louisiana which is. eighty miles from here. for the last of these times blessing. other nets on their of their l