Cancer Alley Louisiana: The 'Mother of All Sinkholes'

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  • Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
  • Cancer Alley, a stretch of about 100 miles between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is home to some 150 petrochemical plants, making these swamplands perhaps the most industrialized (and polluted) region in the United States. The latest plague ravaging Cancer Alley is that enormous sinkhole in Assumption Parish, a burgeoning cavity that is a pestilence both real and symbolic, relentlessly swallowing land while reminding residents of the despoliation the past 60 years have inflicted on their sinuous bayous and fulsome cypress groves. As Bayou Corne's citizens abandon their homes, fleeing the specters of methane and vandals and depressed home values, they stand to become yet another Louisiana community sacrificed to the twin gods of oil and gas.

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  • @marythompson9222
    @marythompson9222 10 років тому +48

    I lived on the edge of alabama... after bp, nearly losing my life, my husband losing his, the sinkhole.... ill never go back that way but it's beautiful to still be able to see it in your videos while catching up on the sinkhole news. Thank you for your heartfelt video. Hugs to those guys who have to leave. I know how they feel...

    • @oracleangelsshiftall2609
      @oracleangelsshiftall2609 6 років тому +9

      Mary Thompson I am so sorry that this happened to you, us and the entire world!!! May God bless you and your family now and always!!! ❤

    • @vickythefist7062
      @vickythefist7062 Рік тому +1

      Can't believe the rest of the world is only just hearing about this it's disgusting a 25 acre sinkhole and people getting cancer .I am so sorry for you .why isn't this all over the international media . Must be very sad to see those pictures I would hate that to happen to my childhood home cus I feel like it's got it's own soul cus it's got all my beautiful memories there

  • @locouk
    @locouk 6 років тому +29

    Man made *accidental damage, then they wonder why natural fresh water supplies get tainted and become unfit for use.
    Follow the $, when company CEO’s start being held personally responsible for these *accidents, they might think before they destroy lives of people around them.
    It’s a disgrace.

  • @thomascampr
    @thomascampr 10 років тому +90

    The trees being sucked down the hole was creepy.

  • @RM-qw2rw
    @RM-qw2rw 7 років тому +23

    The time it takes for the people too win the lawsuit, they most likely are gonna be long gone

  • @schangzz
    @schangzz Рік тому +5

    I seriously have a burning hatred for corporations and all involved with the destruction they cause. But capitalism amirite.

  • @Carolina-Girl-214
    @Carolina-Girl-214 5 років тому +13

    25 acres in size and growing... SCARY

  • @ShermanBrady-r1o
    @ShermanBrady-r1o Рік тому +1

    They should get more money besides for this company just to buy their homes from them. I think it would only be fair to pay for their homes 🏠 plus giving each home owner a million dollars. Even a million dollars will not cover one of those homes owners if they develop cancer.

  • @kurtmckelvey9478
    @kurtmckelvey9478 6 років тому +25

    Texas Brine !! Only Care's about the Color Green !!!!! 😕 😖

  • @reneemckenzie8144
    @reneemckenzie8144 6 років тому +4

    Never give up...

  • @Rs500ybd
    @Rs500ybd 10 років тому +33

    the folk who dun this have to pay this is destroying the very land we all live on

  • @miniciks1115
    @miniciks1115 6 років тому +14

    They care for the $, not human lives.

  • @bonitawauls6274
    @bonitawauls6274 6 років тому +4

    Why must people spend years proving the oil companies are in the wrong. The Companies KNOW it. Is there No honesty at oil companies. Pay those people and clean up the mess your company has caused!!

  • @eileeneclark9011
    @eileeneclark9011 6 років тому +9

    5/16/18.....Cancer Alley? What a horrible change from Mother Nature to environmental nightmare/horror story of change from a beautiful natural paradise to waste/loss of habitat & animals/illness & death.
    What an absolute shame than man can destroy God's earth!

  • @juliejensen7370
    @juliejensen7370 2 роки тому +3

    Tragic. It stinks along I-10 in New Orleans too. There is also too much development everywhere.

  • @therealb888
    @therealb888 9 років тому +14

    How deep is the void?

  • @cherylcooper1885
    @cherylcooper1885 6 років тому +3

    What's the water quality today?

  • @tallsmile28
    @tallsmile28 10 років тому +10

    No regulation, no repercussions. Enjoy Louisiana. Keep voting republican.

    • @tallsmile28
      @tallsmile28 10 років тому +1

      big ike I live in democratic NY, where our governor has outlawed tracking.

    • @tallsmile28
      @tallsmile28 10 років тому +1

      big ike My democratic Governor prevents Fracking in my state.(New York). Republican governor allows fracking in PA. Now the drinking water is flammable in PA. I rest my case.

  • @girlbonsai
    @girlbonsai 5 років тому +5

    Very Sad, May God be with them all.

  • @r.i.p.totheliesr.e.a4901
    @r.i.p.totheliesr.e.a4901 6 років тому +4

    😵😵I was fishing in Plaquemine Louisiana June 7 2018.. seen a lot of bubbles coming out the water

  • @juliamanalo9974
    @juliamanalo9974 6 років тому +9

    that's sad--paradise' gone!!!😢😢😢

  • @kwindshawne
    @kwindshawne 5 років тому +4

    Occidental chemical 50% responsible-anyone remember Hooker Chemical? (Love Canal) They have a history of destroying nature

  • @prakashviewsupdatesanalysi9759
    @prakashviewsupdatesanalysi9759 6 років тому +7

    folks this is the effect of our so called development without syncing our life with nature.our ambitions aspirations r sky rocketting.unable to settle in earth searching place in other planet.hell to these development time to limit our need n greed lets build a better sustainable environment

  • @21313cord21
    @21313cord21 6 років тому +3

    How quick sand is made.

  • @RONJAE212003
    @RONJAE212003 6 років тому +4

    I’m so curious where it went

  • @billybonds2693
    @billybonds2693 6 років тому +6

    Lord have mercy on those that big Corp has sicken and took there homes away and give big Corp ur wrath

  • @juliejensen7370
    @juliejensen7370 2 роки тому +6

    I saw an electric car in a museum designed in the 30's. What a different world we would have if we got rid of money and bribery in politics. Jimmy Carter tried to mandate more fuel efficient cars. He was voted out

  • @brindlilliahslilli5775
    @brindlilliahslilli5775 10 років тому +13

    It is real sad to see these folks so disappointed.. I looked at this area on goole earth. It looks like the swampy spill way of the Mississippi River. I'll bet it is beautiful. But I would never buy land in such an area. even if there had never been ANY sink holes. It looks like the kind o area that could flood or sink of shift at any time. This country is only about 250 years old. So this area is due for problems it seems. I think living there might always be a risk. No matter what.

    • @albundy9873
      @albundy9873 3 роки тому

      They buy to be close to nature, and the low low property taxes. But there's no city water/gas, no paved streets, no street lites, cable, or sidewalks?

  • @lshepherd6137
    @lshepherd6137 Рік тому +2

    That looks trrrifying

  • @littlebit3828
    @littlebit3828 7 років тому +4

    how did they know the salt was down there to mine in the first place?

  • @furryface1057
    @furryface1057 4 роки тому +1

    wow ! never saw that before

  • @aliced4452
    @aliced4452 6 років тому +4

    My sister use to.live close to there, so glad she is gone from that area.
    So sad, Money was the reason!!! Thats so so sad..

  • @1superstar855
    @1superstar855 6 років тому +1

    How much are their houses there?

  • @debbiehorn8263
    @debbiehorn8263 5 років тому +3

    The people and companies that have done this ; sure hope their money will help buy them out of hell . This is murder !

  • @devilred1971
    @devilred1971 6 років тому +6

    When making money supersedes the cost of human lives!

  • @carryjgful
    @carryjgful Рік тому +1

    Im sorry but I had to pause after hearing "150 refineries in a 100 mile stretch of the Mississippi river"...excuse me!!?? Are ya'll smokin crack on the daily?! This is simply incomprehensible. And reckless. So sad it was allowed to get so out of hand because of our need & lust for oil products after the invention of the combustion engine.

    • @pruneclair7ChristianforTruth
      @pruneclair7ChristianforTruth Місяць тому

      @@carryjgful BUT A MAN NAMED RUDOLPH? DIESEL I THINK,INVENTED THE DIESEL ENGINE TO RUN ON ANY KIND OF VEGETABLE OIL,YOU COULD USE HEMP OIL, CORN OIL,PEANUT OIL,PALM OIL,PINE OIL OR USED VEGETABLE OIL FROM RESTAURANTS OR HOMES OR ANY KIND OF SEED OIL.AND IF WE USE OLD ORGANIC TYPES OF FARMING AND AVOID PESTICIDES AND HERBICIDES AND USE GOOD BACTERIA IN THE SOIL TO HELP PLANTS GET THE NUTRIENTS THEY NEED, WE COULD HAVE LOTS OF DIESEL ENGINE CARS OR TRUCKS AND NOT HAVE TO RETURN TO HORSE DRAWN WAGONS OR OXEN OR DONKEYS UNLESS WE PREFER THOSE LIKE THE AMISH DO. AND IF WE HARVEST OIL OR GAS OR COAL OR WHATEVER, THERE SHOULD BE REGULATIONS TO MAKE IT SAFER FOR KEEPING WELL WATER AND UNDER GROUND WATERS CLEAN FOR HOMES AND FARMS TO USE WITHOUT SO MANY CANCERS. ALSO AVOID CHEMO CURES THAT DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD BECAUSE THEY ARE TOXINS THAT MAKE PEOPLE TOO SICK TO EAT AND THEY DIE OF MALNUTRITION! INSTEAD USE NATURAL CURES AND WORK WITH IMMUNE SYSTEMS TO CURE CANCERS OR POOR HEALTH. I DON'T KNOW WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT SINK HOLES OR OLD OIL WELLS THAT ARE BIG EMPTY SPACES? IN LA CALIFORNIA THEY FILLED UP AN OLD OIL WELL HOLE WITH LOTS OF CEMENT BUT IT COST A MILLION DOLLARS ,AND WITH SO MANY OLD EMPTY SPACES IN THE GROUND IT MIGHT BE TOO EXPENSIVE TO FILL THEM ALL UP? WE SHOULD ASK CERTAIN EXPERTS OR ASK PROPHETS OF GOD IF THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE THE WORLD AND NOT ALLOW THE MOST RUTHLESS, GREEDIEST OR MOST POWER MAD PEOPLE OR PSYCHOPATHS OR DICTATORS TO HOG ALL THE WEALTH AND POWERS SINCE THEY DON'T SEEM TO CARE WHAT THEY DO, EVEN START A NUCLEAR WAR THAT COULD END ALL LIFE ON EARTH!!!! UNLESS GOD SHORTENS THOSE DAYS OF EXTREME TRIBULATION!!! AND WHAT IF HE DOES NOT???? LET'S USE MORE ANTI MISSILE SHIELDS TO PREVENT NUCLEAR WARS, NOT FASTER AND FASTER MISSILES!!! TOO FAST TO TURN THEM AROUND!!!! IN CASE OF ERRORS !!!!ALSO MORE PEACE TREATIES, MORE TRADE.AND SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD'S PARDONS FOR SINS IF PEOPLE WILL TURN FROM THEIR SUICIDAL MURDEROUS WAYS AND HUMBLY WORK WITH CREATOR GOD TO MAKE A BETTER EARTH FOR MANY LIFE FORMS ,NOT JUST A FEW SUPER RICH SHORT SIGHTED FOOLS AT THE TOP TURNING EARTH INTO ANOTHER DEAD PLANET!!!! IT COULD BE THAT THE EARTH IS ALREADY SO POLLUTED OR RADIOACTIVE OR POISONED THAT GOD WILL HAVE TO MAKE A NEW EARTH FOR PEOPLE OR SPIRITS TO LIVE ON AND WHERE HE CAN SET UP HIS KINGDOM ON BUT WE SHOULD DO WHAT WE CAN TO MAKE LESS POISONS SO PEOPLE CAN BE MORE HEALTHY AND SO WE CAN HAVE MORE OF A TRIUMPH OF LIFE OVER DEATH,GOOD OVER EVIL,HEALTH OVER TOO SICK TO DO MUCH ,AND THE ENERGY NEEDED TO DO OUR PART IN THE GREAT AWAKENING AND LIVES WORTH LIVING!!!

  • @missairikatarot
    @missairikatarot 2 роки тому +1

    He “caught a glimpse of hell on earth”
    I caught a glimpse of Mom flushing the toilet ❤ thanks Mom! Blessed be!
    Some people only see what they want to see….. only one way to take a shit honey!

  • @allanspino4696
    @allanspino4696 6 років тому +5

    if that can happen from a salt mine dig in, louisiana what's going stop wyoming colvera from going with the oil dig in stony park area.

  • @Hendrikhendrik-om5ys
    @Hendrikhendrik-om5ys 3 роки тому

    A it is possible to calculate how large quantities in cubic meters of oil and gas people have taken up from the subsoil since 1846

  • @Hendrikhendrik-om5ys
    @Hendrikhendrik-om5ys 3 роки тому

    M what gets into the ground when oil and gas are taken up? what material has the ability to stabilize the subsoil as good as oil and compressed gas nothing can replace Oil and Gas so subsoil worldwide is and will be unstable.

  • @donny9078
    @donny9078 4 роки тому +2

    Hope these folks were compensated at a high rate.

  • @lobosolitario-j4c
    @lobosolitario-j4c 2 роки тому +2

    It's not nice to mess with mother nature.

  • @kristinebailey6554
    @kristinebailey6554 10 місяців тому

    I cannot believe anyone ever saw that area as paradise to begin with. Giant, mosquito laden swamp.

  • @jdcoffey6
    @jdcoffey6 6 років тому +3

    Corporations are the real cancer here

  • @gatsbylight4766
    @gatsbylight4766 Рік тому

    Me and a friend of mine were swimming in this lake once, and then all of sudden I saw MORE BUBBLES COMING OUT OF THE WATER THAN I HAD EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE! I got real nervous and scared, but my friend stayed calm. I thought it was odd that he didn't get scared, then it hit me: That wasn't a sink hole.... my friend had White Castle for lunch. #BuyEmByTheSack

  • @lkanan3869
    @lkanan3869 5 років тому +1

    I was born in Louisiana down south of plaquemines parish. Many people have died of cancer and will continue. I now live in Spokane Washington now and glad I left. Yeah I miss my home town but as far as I know I'm glad to be away from all the man made distraction. So said.

  • @jasonjordan5391
    @jasonjordan5391 5 років тому +2

    Things will never be normal look at the lives you’ve ruined the wildlife that’s lost!!!!

  • @inkblot131
    @inkblot131 6 років тому +1

    The People's Party (the GOP) will fix everything.

  • @gatsbylight4766
    @gatsbylight4766 Рік тому

    HO . LY . SH%T!!! THE WORLD SWALLOWED UP THEM TREES!!! I woulda sh%t my pants, borrowed my friend's pants, and then sh%t his pants too!!! #StephenKingLouisiana

  • @mayooooo6977
    @mayooooo6977 10 років тому

    Where did the tress go?

    • @cedricbottom2932
      @cedricbottom2932 10 років тому +3

      Down the hole and now in Australia

    • @mayooooo6977
      @mayooooo6977 10 років тому +1

      Seriously...

    • @craigresponds6610
      @craigresponds6610 7 років тому +2

      Mario Gonzalez
      it was a salt mine. the water and trees were sucked down until the cavern filled. I saw a documentary on it. It was about 100 feet deep.

  • @jefferyschirm4103
    @jefferyschirm4103 6 років тому +1

    How are the fish wildlife their out in the water and enirv.all the time make your choice to stay or leave.

  • @TheKhanhhoa
    @TheKhanhhoa 4 роки тому +2

    bet there are several local officials that got some real good ( unaccounted for ) bank accounts....probably in some family members name. This just didn't get started recently , think about all those civic minded donations to the community from the chemical plants.....all them ultra high dollar jobs that seemed to go to certain local families , cousins ect. ...good old local boys ......i used to deliver chemicals down there once every 10 days or so from Sauget Il. / St. louis chemical plants . Used to park by that little casino / dump . Gotta say most of the people i meant down there were the best you would wanta meet . So sorry for what has happened....puts me in the mind of agent orange that we guys had to deal with ( still are ) in the nam . Don't trust nobody any more , specially them local officials you got down there . Respect to the good people , you know who you are , and you know who ain't !

  • @isabelkelly7717
    @isabelkelly7717 5 років тому

    Conditions causing global warming. It is a sad state we have put this planet in.
    We forgot that we pray on Earth as it is in heaven. Then we blame God and say it's wrath from.

  • @BiancaFlowers-pf7kh
    @BiancaFlowers-pf7kh Рік тому

    Ssdi does NOT pay this out to the average person plz do NOT give your information to these scammers

  • @jjranger5022
    @jjranger5022 6 років тому +1

    People are just stupid .... fucking leave u fucking idiots u where the fool that moved there.... dumb asses

  • @felixcat9318
    @felixcat9318 2 роки тому +3

    This is nothing compared to what Union Carbide did to the people of Bhopal...

  • @ocean1233
    @ocean1233 Рік тому

    "BACK TO NORMAL"🤔😭👿

  • @IgnacioAgramonte
    @IgnacioAgramonte 10 років тому +2

    THE ONLY WAY SAVE TO LIVE IN FLORIDA IS INSIDE A BOAT.

  • @ladynorman1
    @ladynorman1 6 років тому +1

    I hope the company loses so much that they have to close down. For good!

  • @mwdca7810
    @mwdca7810 5 років тому +2

    As Sarah Palin said "Drill baby Drill"....as so goes the planet.

  • @seesfractals2462
    @seesfractals2462 6 років тому +1

    Welcome to the Anthropocene!

  • @yousifatobiya7279
    @yousifatobiya7279 4 роки тому +1

    Three theories or forces dominate or control upon the planet of the earth...
    Firt: The forces or the theory that dominates upon the atmosphere is the end of the first theory of climate change and global warming (dynamic horizontal movement)...
    The occurrence of storms,rains,snow, and floods at times, and in unexpected places ,because of the end of the this theory,which needs to balance...
    Second:The force or theory that dominates upon earthquakes, sinkholes,cracks on earth , volcanic eruptions, dry lakes and rivers, flow of sweet water from the side of dead sea,the formation of new islands, or hills and mountains, and collapse of mountains, & , & ,&...
    These phenomenons because of the end of the second theory of climate change and global warming(dynamic vertical movement)...
    This theory becames out of control or balance...
    Third: The water is revolving or orbiting the earth...
    Note 1:The earth has a new orbit...
    Note 2:The earth has tilted 2 degrees...
    These studies had completed and sent on 26th July 2000...
    Yousif A Tobiya
    Forcibly displaced

    • @fred1690
      @fred1690 Рік тому

      earth is a plane bro, not a spinning ball. magical spinning ball. lol

  • @jhongauntt4918
    @jhongauntt4918 Рік тому +1

    Omygodwheristhehelpgodmighty

  • @lordieshepherd
    @lordieshepherd Рік тому

    A glimpse of hell on earth.... c'mon it is a natural event, nothing to do with hell.

  • @Benny-dv7xm
    @Benny-dv7xm 5 років тому

    False image for area

  • @daro2262
    @daro2262 5 років тому

    All they car about is money & lot's of money . I would sue them for all the money they have so they have to close

    • @PaulMalone-pm8qk
      @PaulMalone-pm8qk Рік тому

      Yeah all they car not care about but your saying car so they car about is money car,????

  • @donaldmills9874
    @donaldmills9874 4 роки тому +1

    It's Gods plan...collect dollar bills at all cost...collect dollar bills.

  • @ocean1233
    @ocean1233 Рік тому

    HUMANS KILL

  • @bearmorningsun5092
    @bearmorningsun5092 6 років тому

    Wtf ?

  • @em1osmurf
    @em1osmurf 5 років тому +1

    looks like another Trump investment gone bad.

  • @PaulMalone-pm8qk
    @PaulMalone-pm8qk Рік тому

    I live in the United Kingdom and we have sink holes too I think that the world is sinking

  • @billybonds2693
    @billybonds2693 6 років тому +2

    Lord have mercy on those that big Corp has sicken and took there homes away and give big Corp ur wrath