The more I look at this, the more this whole thing looks like a case of spousal abuse.
Picture Louisiana as a housewife married to the oil companies. The oil companies then one day come home drunk/high/whatever and starts beating Louisiana mercilessly, despite her just barely getting over a serious injury. Now Louisiana is in too much pain to even attempt to make her own money, despite being a decent fisherman herself and thus has absolutely no way of supporting her self if she leaves big oil. Then big oil, seeing he can get away with it, just beats on Louisiana more and more. Meanwhile the neighbors see what's going on and try to reason with Louisiana, because they don't want people like big oil trying to do that shit to them, and many are in situations that could lead to the same place. But Louisiana keeps insisting that big oil isn't doing anything wrong and that she still loves him dearly. So the neighbors attempt to yell at big oil, they even bring the police. But big oil just doesn't give a fuck, he talks the police into doing his work for him while he "sorts things out." Louisiana bursts in and, still very deep in her denial, attacks the neighbors, all the while she's being punched in the back of the head by big oil and ignoring it. Then some the neighbors start blaming the police while ignoring big oil too.
And nothing get's done. Eventually Louisiana dies, along with all of her pet birds, and the neighbors' pets too.
Yes, it's ridiculous at times, but so it what's going on.