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Wetlands Loss and Solutions
Read about wetlands loss and potential solutions
Resolve Revenue Sharing
Oct. 3, 2006
Times-Picayune
Louisiana's quest for a fair share of offshore oil and gas royalties has never been more urgent -- this state must have a stable, robust source of revenue to rebuild coastal wetlands that serve as a shield against storm surge.
Rebuilding Louisiana's wetlands should be a national priority. But ...Read More >>>
Louisiana Fights for Money to Protect Coast
Aug. 2, 2006
NPR
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Louisiana officials are suing to stop the Department of Interior's plan to auction offshore oil production leases. The state wants a cut of the income generated from the production facilities, fees and royalties to help cover its environmental coastal protection programs.
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“Louisiana looks to oil to restore wetlands”
Governor plans to demand bigger revenue cut to rebuild coast
July 18, 2006
MSNBC
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EW ORLEANS - Louisiana is focusing its hopes for restoring coastal wetlands that could help protect it from another Hurricane Katrina on an unexpected savior: oil.
Oil and the environment are rarely seen mixing well but the debate over how to pay for natural barriers that ...Read More >>>
“Expensive, but worth it”
Years of man-made mistakes must be fixed to save New Orleans
Monday, September 04, 2006
John M. Barry
Times-Picayune op-ed
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Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans was not a natural disaster. It was a man-made disaster. But it wasn't man-made only because the levees built by the Army Corps of Engineers proved so flawed that, as the corps itself said, they ...Read More >>>
“Land Lost”
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita turned 217 square miles of coastal land and wetlands into water
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Times-Picayune
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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ripped away 217 square miles of Louisiana's fragile coastline, with each turning huge swaths of land to water overnight, accelerating a process that already posed grave threats to coastal communities, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study.
Survey scientists compared ...Read More >>>
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