A year on from the tragic oil spill in the Guld of Mexico, affected residents are still struggling to get life back to normal, while others are actually profiting.
Locals have dubbed them the' spillionaires': businesses hawking goods such as porta-loos, boats and timber to BP for highly inflated prices, in some cases at 20 times the regular cost.
Businessmen like Ronnie Hyer sold BP protective suits when the energy giant and the US and the government set up an army of thousands of clean-up workers.
He says trade was up 1,000 percent.
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