Oil and Gas: South Louisiana’s bedrock industry is defined by boom-bust cycles

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The fortunes of south Louisiana are inextricably intertwined with the price of the oil and natural gas that are so abundant under our soil and, particularly, off our coast. Over the past 35 years those prices have fluctuated wildly—and made and destroyed fortunes in the process. The most dramatic of those fluctuations occurred in the

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