Latest Mississippi River Delta News: September 11, 2015
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With a master plan and the money, can a state unite to restore its protective wetlands? *features Kim Reyher, CRCL & Alisha Renfro, NWF By Emily Holden. E&E. September 11, 2015 “This is the time when we move from planning to action,” Kimberly Davis Reyher, executive director of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, said at a gubernatorial debate at Nicholls State University last month. “One of these gentlemen is going to preside over a period of ambitious implementation of …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: September 4, 2015
Louisiana must have oil, gas royalties to help save our coast: Editorial The Times-Picayune. September 3, 2015 “Louisiana and the other Gulf states are the ones that have paid the environmental and infrastructure costs of energy production. Yet they have gotten essentially nothing to help offset those costs. Our state always should have gotten a share of the royalties paid by oil and gas companies, as inland states do for drilling done within their borders.” (Read More) Commentary: The …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: September 3, 2015
State conservation group commends decision to hold Corps liable for MRGO wetlands restoration *features Rebecca Triche, LWF WVUE. September 2, 2015 “This is a big win for the greater New Orleans area and the state of Louisiana,” said Rebecca Triche, executive director for Louisiana Wildlife Federation (LWF). “The MRGO destroyed wetlands that are critical in protecting New Orleans and the surrounding area from storm surge and this decision signals an end to delays in moving forward with restoration.” (Read More) …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: September 2, 2015
‘Natural’ river diversion at center of coastal restoration conflict (video) *features John Lopez & Theryn Henkel, LPBF By David Hammer, WWL-TV. September 1, 2015 “It was coastal scientist John Lopez of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation who first dubbed this cleft Mardi Gras Pass, and he’s now giving it credit for actually starting the work that Louisiana has yet to muster the resources to pursue.” (Read More) Strategies: Entrepreneurs preventing the next Katrina By Rhonda Abrams, USA Today. August …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: September 1, 2015
Our views: Gov. Bobby Jindal’s master plan on coastal restoration ‘is the framework for an effective response’ The Advocate. August 31, 2015 “If there are issues dividing the candidates running for governor, coastal restoration is not among them. In fact, there’s a striking level of agreement about the principles of a state plan to use Mississippi River water and sediments to rebuild the sinking coastline.” (Read More) Ten years after Katrina, New Orleans is still a ticking time bomb By …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 31, 2015
New Orleans hurricane defenses rely on swamps as much as levees *features Alisha Renfro, NWF By Kim Brunhuber, CBC News. August 28, 2015 “The storm surge itself interacts with the plants and it causes friction and slowing the storm surge down, decreasing the height of that storm surge,” Renfro says. So not only can it protect the coastal communities, it can also help protect the infrastructure that we’ve built around our coastal communities from things like large hurricanes.” (Read More) …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 28, 2015
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 28, 2015 Katrina Spawns a Decade of Flood Protection Design and Construction (Mentions MRD Coalition) By Pam Radtke Russell, Engineering News-Record. August 25, 2015. That buffering of the coastline is part of a “multiple lines of defense” strategy being promoted by a “Restore the Delta” coalition that is pushing to restore the coast for environmental reasons and to give the region more protection from hurricanes. (Read More) Designing the Resilient Coast of the Future …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 27, 2015
Louisiana Post-Katrina: A Decade of Difference (Video) features John Lopez, LPBF & Simone Maloz, Restore or Retreat This month Louisiana Public Square takes a look at where the state is now on “Louisiana Post-Katrina: A Decade of Difference” airing Wednesday, August 26 at 7 p.m. on LPB HD. (View more). Hurricane Katrina Anniversary: 3 Ambitious Plans To Save New Orleans From Climate Change features Steve Cochran, EDF By Maria Gallucci, International Business Times. August 26, 2015. The three strategies are …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 26, 2015
Decade after Katrina, efforts aim to restore Louisiana coast *features Steve Cochran, EDF By Randy Lee Loftin, Dallas News. August 25, 2015 “What the Louisiana coast needs, just about everyone agrees, is multiple lines of defense against storms — starting with the ones nature put in place. Coastal wetlands help buffer big storms before they hit the mainland by absorbing some of the power of waves. Some research says storm surge, the dramatic rise in water levels pushed by hurricane …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 25, 2015
10 Years After Katrina, Louisiana Is Becoming A Model For Climate Resilience *features Doug Meffert, NAS, John Lopez, LPBF & Simone Maloz, ROR By Kate Sheppard, Huffington Post. August 24, 2015 “But the most recent master plan, released in 2012, is a “masterpiece,” Meffert said, based on sound science for what the region can expect as the climate changes and seas rise.”It did what no other master plan or general plan had done before — drew a map of Louisiana …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 21, 2015
The Next Big One By Chris Mooney, The Washington Post. August 21, 2015 “Louisiana has roughly 5,700 square miles of wetlands. If it keeps losing them at the current rate — estimated at a football field an hour — New Orleans could someday lie right up against the Gulf of Mexico, more exposed than ever to another natural disaster. And Nyman and many other coastal scientists say that wetland-building river diversions like the one at Pass a Loutre — only …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 19, 2015
All Louisiana governor candidates support multibillion-dollar diversion plans to slow coastal land loss By Cain Burdeau, The Advocate. August 19, 2015 “The candidates largely voiced similar approaches on what they see as the steps necessary to take. Each one backed a $50 billion, 50-year master plan devised by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration to slow land loss by diverting the Mississippi River’s mud and water into injured estuaries. The idea is to restore the river’s delta-building capacity. The river has been …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 17, 2015
Our Views: Threat to Louisiana’s people, heritage due to coastal erosion, rising seas is real The Advocate. August 17, 2015 “Sometimes, the phraseology makes Louisiana’s plight seem academic, but coastal land loss and rising sea levels have had a huge impact on our state within living memory. This is not an issue of 100 years ago or 200 years ago, but very much a contemporary impact on our way of life.” (Read More) Five Louisiana projects under consideration for Funding …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 14, 2015
Louisiana restoration projects to get another $52 million in Transocean fines *features MRD statement By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune. August 13, 2015 “We are very pleased that all five of our submittals have ended up in the draft funded priority list,” Kline said. “Additionally, we are pleased that there are two projects proposed by federal council members that directly benefit coastal Louisiana. We believe this is a step in the right direction toward restoring the long term health of the …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: August 13, 2015
Guest column: Saving Louisiana’s coast is even more urgent after the hurricanes of the past *features Steve Cochran, EDF & Kimberly Reyher, CRCL By Steve Cochran & Kimberly Reyher, The Advocate. August 12, 2015 “The future of Louisiana and its future generations depends on our leaders using every dime of that money as it was intended: to rebuild Louisiana’s best defenses against storms, floods and oil spills. That should be the mission of all of us and our leaders in …