Are We Safer 10 Years After Katrina? That’s the question Lens environmental reporter Bob Marshall will ask Paul Kemp, a coastal oceanographer and geologist at Louisiana State University, at our Aug. 20 Breakfast with the Newsmakers.
As a board member of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, Kemp is well-positioned to discuss the security of our post-Katrina flood protection system and how important coastal restoration is to the future of New Orleans.
The involvement of civically engaged community members like you is crucial to the future of our coast and city. We encourage your questions. If you’d like to pose a question in advance, please email Anne Mueller by Aug. 19.
In the meantime, read about flood protection and coastal restoration:
Breakfast with the Newsmakers is a monthly business-social event that aims to engage The Lens’ audience with one another and with the people making news around New Orleans. Newsmakers events are open to the public. They are free to Lens members, with a $10 suggested donation for non-members.
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2 replies on “Paul Kemp to discuss whether area is safer 10 years after Hurricane Katrina (video)”
Now that’s what WE are talkin’ a-bout! Keep the community involved. In the words of RAWHIDE and The Blues Brothers, “GIDDAYUP GIDDAYUP…Don’t try to understand ’em, just tie rope and brand ’em.” WE hope you will soon be living high and wide…”
Remember, ASP and I are on Sierra Madre time.
08/10/2015 4:34 AM DST USA
Wish I was in town to attend, Will it live-stream online? That was a great “America Reframed” on PBS today, about how we’re washing away a little at a time; especially Mr. Marshall’s humorous peg-legged pig analogy about how Big Oil continues to have its way with Mother Earth, in Louisiana’s wetlands. (1) Can BP funds be used to clean-up the abandoned rigs & debris, perhaps using it to shore-up the islands? (2) Has the final settlement agreement been approved by the Court? Are any of the files sealed & why? (3) People care, but everyday life limits our priorities; alas, that’s exactly where the powers-that-be want us, it seems. Luckily the young, like this band passing through the FQ, carry the torch today, just as Beau Jocque did 15 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny-bh5NvtHg
Now that’s what WE are talkin’ a-bout! Keep the community involved. In the words of RAWHIDE and The Blues Brothers, “GIDDAYUP GIDDAYUP…Don’t try to understand ’em, just tie rope and brand ’em.” WE hope you will soon be living high and wide…”
Remember, ASP and I are on Sierra Madre time.
08/10/2015 4:34 AM DST USA
Wish I was in town to attend, Will it live-stream online? That was a great “America Reframed” on PBS today, about how we’re washing away a little at a time; especially Mr. Marshall’s humorous peg-legged pig analogy about how Big Oil continues to have its way with Mother Earth, in Louisiana’s wetlands. (1) Can BP funds be used to clean-up the abandoned rigs & debris, perhaps using it to shore-up the islands? (2) Has the final settlement agreement been approved by the Court? Are any of the files sealed & why? (3) People care, but everyday life limits our priorities; alas, that’s exactly where the powers-that-be want us, it seems. Luckily the young, like this band passing through the FQ, carry the torch today, just as Beau Jocque did 15 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny-bh5NvtHg