Scalise said Louisiana is an example that oil exploration and drilling can be achieved without harming the environment.
"We've proven you can do it in an environmentally safe way,'' he said.
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Times-Picayune March 5, 2007 on the "environmentally safe way" oil exploration has been done in Louisiana.
Still, the Louisiana coast might have survived another 1,000 years or more, Louisiana State University scientists said. But the discovery of oil and gas compressed its destruction into a half-century.
By the 1980s, the petroleum industry and the corps had dredged more than 20,000 miles of canals and new navigation channels from the coast inland across the wetlands. The new web of waterways, like a circulatory system pumping poison, injected saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico into salt-sensitive freshwater wetlands. Fueled by the advance of big business on the coast, the Gulf's slow march northward accelerated into a sprint.
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