2011-0110
INTRODUCED BY: DENNIS NUSS, COUNCILMAN, DISTRICT VII
RESOLUTION NO. ___________
Title
A resolution to urge the Louisiana State Legislature and Governor Bobby Jindal to create one Coastal Congressional District so that Coastal Louisiana can be represented by one voice in Congress.
Body
WHEREAS, the Great State of Louisiana's commercial fisheries account for one third of commercial fishing in the United States with the State's catch regularly exceeding one billion pounds and $300 million in dockside value; and,
WHEREAS, sport-fishing provides $700 million to $1.2 billion to the Great State of Louisiana's economy, the vast majority of this revenue coming from Coastal Louisiana; and,
WHEREAS, alligator harvesting and coastal trapping generates $30 million and $2 million, respectively, in annual economic activity; and,
WHEREAS, almost 25 percent of the oil and gas consumed in the United States and 80 percent of the oil and gas recovered from our nation's offshore reserves travels through Coastal Louisiana before it is used to power our nation's economy; and,
WHEREAS, the oil and gas industry directly or indirectly employs 320,000 or one in three Louisianans and supplies these families with $12.7 billion in annual household income, amounting to more than 15 percent of Louisiana's total household income. The vast majority of these jobs, and virtually all of the 58,000 Louisianans that work extraction, pipeline and refining jobs are residents of Coastal Louisiana; and,
WHEREAS, many of the offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are serviced through Coastal Louisiana's Port Fouchon making it the largest port by tonnage in the Western Hemisphere; and,
WHEREAS, the Great State of Louisiana ranks first in the nation in total shipping tonnage, almost all of this cargo is loaded on a ocean-going ship or transferred from a barge to a ship in a Coastal Louisiana port, the remaining cargo is transported through Coastal Louisiana along the Missi...
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