Chalmette

• “Rev. Luke Nguyen splashes a boat with holy water during the annual blessing of the fleet in Chalmette, La.,”

  Gulf oil spill makes blessing of boats a sad task in La. this year

• “They oughta be able to adapt "christmas in Chalmette", I'd think ...”

  Your Right Hand Thief

• “Ahmad's family had spent all summer working to open a store in Chalmette, which is now destroyed by flooding.”

  Race, Relief and Reconstruction in New Orleans

• “M. O'BRIEN: There's a report in the "Times-Picayune" a New Orleans paper, this morning that of approximately 1,500 people waiting for rescue in a place called a Chalmette Slip area of New Orleans, 199 of them have perished while waiting to be rescued.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2005

• “What makes this important is over here is Chalmette, which is where we had some of the folks who were found in the nursing home the other day.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2005

• “Turn, known as the Chalmette and McGehee batteries, were, however, intended only to check an approach of troops from down the river.”

  Admiral Farragut

• “Rolfes said in Chalmette, La., home to a refinery run by Arkansas-based Murphy Oil Corp., residents joke that the weather forecast is "cloudy with a chance of oil.”

  The Huffington Post: Susan Buchanan: Gulf Activists Stage Protest as BP's Cleanup Slows

• “Murphy Oil had one of the nation's largest spills when over 1 million gallons of oil spewed into Chalmette during Katrina, after the company didn't follow its own emergency guidelines requiring that tanks be filled.”

  The Huffington Post: Susan Buchanan: Gulf Activists Stage Protest as BP's Cleanup Slows

• “Shipments of Venezuelan heavy crude oil that come in by tanker to a refinery in Chalmette would be locked out of the river, though most refineries on the river are fed by pipelines.”

  USA Today: Rising Mississippi River takes aim at Delta region

• “DHH and the DEQ have requested continuous air quality testing and monitoring from the EPA, and DEQ will be assisting the EPA by increasing the frequency of air sampling at its Kenner and Chalmette monitors.”

  Oil spill reaches Louisiana shore

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