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Shell Beach Faces an Uncertain Future

Frank Campo is afraid that the community he, his father, and his children grew up in is going to take a hit.
Jessie Wright-Mendoza
Frank Campo is afraid that the community he, his father, and his children grew up in is going to take a hit.

By Eve Abrams

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wwno/local-wwno-953388.mp3

New Orleans, Louisiana – Ever since oil spewed into Gulf waters last April, folks who work and live in Shell Beach, Louisiana have been waiting -- waiting to see what happens to the marine animals their livelihoods depend upon, and waiting to find out the full effects on the businesses and community they rebuild after Katrina. Over nine months since the Macondo Well exploded, Eve Abrams found that the residents of Shell Beach have few answers, only more questions.

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