Honore delivers startlingly radical call to action against forces destroying coast
The need to resist Big Oil and the Jindal administration's shameless pandering to it has begun to forge a broad-spectrum political alliance.
Tag: Coastal Erosion
Science to be key factor in lawsuit against oil and gas companies for coastal loss
The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East is expected to file suit Wednesday against more than 100 oil and gas companies for contributing to the disappearance of Louisiana’s wetlands. The lawsuit argues that decades of drilling, dredging and extracting has destroyed wetlands that once provided a cushion against hurricane storm surge, forcing the agency to spend more on flood protection.
Sediment diversions not the way to rebuild Louisiana’s coast
Research shows that we won't be able to rebuild the coast the same way it was created, with sediment flowing down the river.
Coal facility, Mississippi River diversion project planned for same site
Cutting coastal cash is perfect complement to Big Oil’s free ride
Jindal’s political future is stickier than his sand berms
A month ago I griped about Gov. Bobby Jindal’s preternatural luck. Louisiana’s “part time governor,” as I called him, had radically scaled down his dubious sand-berm idea without any negative political fallout. All summer Jindal had touted the berms as being key to winning the “war” against oil in the Gulf. Then he retreated, scaling down the plan, and neither the media nor the public turned on him.
