Cancer Alley

[valerief]

Didn't know southern LA was nicknamed Cancer Alley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley

Cancer Alley is an area along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana which contains hundreds of hazardous waste sites from mines, factories and chemical plants. The plants were located along the Mississippi to facilitate shipping, but have now resulted in Louisiana, one of the most impoverished areas of the country, becoming the most polluted.

[babylonsister]

1. Oh, my. I never knew that either. sad... nt

[benito]

2. awww, that's nothing...

We also got (allegedly) a leper colony in Carrville and a nuclear plant named River Bend in St. Francisville ( on the Miss river).

the rent's cheap though. tradeoff.

Don't get us started on the goofy stuff that's in the water around Lake Charles and Sulphur.

[KT2000]

3. Yes - I am sure it

has contributed mightily to the rates of illness in Louisiana (as in the name Cancer Alley) Hazardous chemicals also produce chronic illnesses. People with serious chronic illness live in poverty unless they have someone to pay their way.
Bush is dismantling the EPA program for addressing environmental justice: the poor and minorities have these hazardous sites in their neigborhoods.

[Blue Belle]

4. Makes me even more worried about the black water...

these victims and rescuers have been wading in. x(