Almost a year ago I was in Machais Maine for the re-dedication of the Beehive's Grange hall, where the local grange was invited to return to their historic building.

One of the presentations during the day was from a cajun feller someone imported to talk about how terrible it has been for the Louisiana Bayou region since LNG facilities started coming in in the last decade+. He was unequivocal: Maine doesn't want LNG. The impact on tourism and marine resources is just too large.

Today, after coming back from four days exploring the southern and south-central hinterlands of Louisiana, I can heartilly concur. Seems every quaint curve of the swamp and bayou is built up with storage tanks and pipeline operations and pump stations and gory knows what else.

The land here was once beautiful, and the small bits that are preserved still are beautiful, but on the whole it has been taken over, carved up, polluted and forever changed by our national lifestyle obsession and the billions of gallons of oil it takes to make our food and comsumer products and everything else.

Local sustainability. Now.