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New Orleans’ Future Depends on Coastal Restoration, But Who Is Footing the Bill?
Posted by Times-Picayune: None Given on August 12th, 2015
Times-Picayune: The finalists among the slogan contest run by the Dirty Coast clothing store to commemorate Hurricane Katrina's anniversary sum up the hopes of many South Louisiana residents: "Keep Land in Our Wetlands," "Save the Boot," "The World Needs More Louisiana," "Let The River Run Through It," "Greaux the Delta, Greaux Our Home."
Those demands are the ones the state Legislature has recognized by supporting the state's Master Plan, a $50 billion, 50-year outline that split its proposed resources between...
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Pipeline moves Mississippi River sand create 12-mile land bridge across three parishes
Posted by Times-Picayune: None Given on May 16th, 2015
Times-Picayune: Jefferson Parish Councilman Ricky Templet and President John Young pounded an American flag into the sand at a lonely spot about five miles southwest of the town of Jean Lafitte on Friday (May 15), symbolically claiming new land created by a long distance pipeline in the name of the parish.
The photo op was part of a field trip arranged by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to update local officials and the media on the status of one of the state's most successful coastal restoration...
Using the Mississippi River to rebuild Louisiana’s coast
Posted by Times-Picayune: None Given on May 5th, 2013
Times-Picayune: Coastal experts have been telling us since Katrina that our marshes are getting perilously close to a tipping point. If we don't act very quickly, we may be too late. We lacked a plan, and we lacked money. Now we have both.
As sources of funding from the BP oil disaster become available, the likelihood that big river sediment diversions -- which are proven strategies to build land -- will actually be done has some folks up in arms. Opponents of the plan, Louisiana's 2012 Comprehensive Master Plan...