For oil workers, accidents are 'a risk you take' msnbc.com

05.05.10

Filed Under: Gulf Oil Spill

By Cynthia Joyce, msnbc.com

PORT FOURCHON, La. -- On the drive south along Highway 1 toward Louisiana’s southernmost port -- currently the staging area for efforts to contain the massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico -- billboards advertising fresh seafood and offshore drilling jobs dot the landscape in equal measure.  As the road narrows, so does the range of industry: Down here, there’s mostly just fishing and drilling, and although people sometimes speak of them in either/or terms in the face of an epic environmental disaster, they’ve cohabitated for decades.

While workers in the Port Fourchon area on Tuesday afternoon weren’t downplaying the tragic oil rig explosion and huge spill that resulted, concerns about the impact on the fishing industry took a backseat to worries over whether the incident will ultimately lead to less drilling.

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