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Mardi Gras on Grand Isle amid oil spill remnants

BP oil spill signs

Tangled ropes of purple, gold and green beads sailed through the air, landing with a thwack on Louisiana Highway 1 on Sunday afternoon. If ever a town needed Mardi Gras, it is Grand Isle — the first populated piece of U.S. territory to see oil make land following the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon.

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Carmen Sisson March 12, 2011 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, Grand Isle, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mardi Gras, oil spill, TIME 1

Fire chief risked jail to fight oil spill

In the end, Magnolia Springs did not need BP or Mr. Obama or the governor in Montgomery. It needed the grit and determination of the people themselves – people like Hinton, who says he will stand chest-deep in the waters of the bay, linked arm in arm with his neighbors, if that’s what it takes to stop the encroaching oil from despoiling the sublime latticework of bogs and bayous that he calls home.

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Carmen Sisson June 15, 2010 August 16, 2014Published Favorites, Recent Bylines Alabama, BP, Deepwater Horizon, environmentalism, fire department, Gulf, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Jamie Hinton, Magnolia Springs, oil spill, oilspill, volunteerism 2

Hoping and praying for an oil spill miracle

Oil spill prayer vigil

The nation spent Wednesday riveted by a live video feed of BP’s latest attempt to stop the geyser of oil infiltrating the Gulf of Mexico, but in Louisiana, sights were set on the heavens as residents gathered at First Baptist Church of Chalmette to pray. One by one, they stood and asked God for protection, guidance, comfort, and mercy. At times, they clung together so closely that they evoked images of the delicate reeds that are now in danger – frail, but not weak; bent, but not broken. Never, ever broken.

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Carmen Sisson May 27, 2010 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Chalmette, Christian Science Monitor, faith, Gulf, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, oil, oil spill, oilspill, prayer, religion 0
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