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Today, Cameron fishermen who fish Southwest Louisiana\u2019s Gulf Coast showed the destruction of coastal areas critical to the region\u2019s environment, economy, and way of life. Piloted and guided by veteran fisherman, shrimpers, and other local residents who earn their living on these endangered waters, the group showed the oil and gas industry\u2019s ongoing expansion in the region not visible from land.<\/p>\n

What the fishermen showed: imposing gas export terminals rising above the coast, bulldozed beaches, and coastal wetlands being backfilled and flattened to make way for yet even more terminals. The Port of Cameron once produced the most seafood in the United States, but the gas export industry\u2019s takeover of Southwest Louisiana is making the fishermen\u2019s way of life untenable. The sheer magnitude of Cameron Parish\u2019s three existing terminals gave all in attendance a clear view of what is in store for other tracts of land along Cameron Parish\u2019s fragile coastline and the local seafood industry if the industry\u2019s expansion continues.<\/p>\n

Currently, the oil and gas industry has plans to build or expand 12 more gas export terminals<\/a>, each of which could reach the size of a football stadium and consume vast amounts of land, including coastal wetlands and other sensitive areas. Terminals like these are prone to accidents and operational problems<\/a>, which result in more toxic pollution and have caused at least one explosion in Freeport, TX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beyond the shocking visuals, the human stories were equally harrowing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think (the Cameron shrimping industry) can last much longer, maybe a year or two if you\u2019re lucky,\u201d said \u201cRooster\u201d Dyson, a fisherman and shrimper who volunteered his commercial fishing vessel to give journalists a first-person account of the industry\u2019s rapid expansion. \u201cIf something doesn\u2019t change…I mean, it\u2019s all about the plants and nothing about the shrimping industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dyson detailed how shrimpers are being squeezed out of their historical fishing grounds. \u201cWhen the shrimp show up, they\u2019re moving those ships and you can\u2019t be anywhere in the way\u2026They want us to be two miles from these ships when they come into the ship channel. Well, I\u2019d have to leave my dock to be two miles away from them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venture Global, the gas export company that operates Calcasieu Pass, closed off a local jetty that was used both recreationally and for fishing. The jetty was rebuilt in 2009 after Hurricane Rita, only to be made inaccessible ten years later by Venture Global\u2019s construction of Calcasieu Pass.<\/p>\n

Another local shrimper, Travis Dardar, was not alone in his concerns for the future of the region and its local industries.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt destroyed our lives\u2026When I moved here it was beautiful\u2026By 8:30, 9:00 in the morning we were already at the bank waiting to cash our check, our day was made, that early in the morning. Slowly and surely it went away\u2026First they took the dredge away, then they took the docks away. Then the shrimping, the price went down, everything declined,\u201d said Dardar. You can hear more of Dardar\u2019s speech here.<\/p>\n

Long-time local shrimper Adley \u201cLeo\u201d Dyson pointed out the inequity of all the profits being made in Cameron compared to the compensation being paid to those being forced to move from their homes. \u201cIt\u2019s big money. And it would not hurt them to help these people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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