Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 18, 2013
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Former swamp to teach about wetlands restoration By The Associated Press. Friday, Nov. 15, 2013. “The governor’s coastal restoration czar, Garret Graves, is among officials coming to New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward to unveil signs at a platform overlooking 440 acres of brackish water dotted with cypress stumps…” (read more) New tool educates on wetlands loss (+Video) By Mike Hoss, WWL TV (New Orleans, La.). Nov. 15, 2013. “The daily loss of its coastline is well documented, but now the …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 15, 2013
Former swamp to teach about wetlands restoration By The Associated Press. Friday, Nov. 15, 2013. “The governor’s coastal restoration czar, Garret Graves, is among officials coming to New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward to unveil signs at a platform overlooking 440 acres of brackish water dotted with cypress stumps…” (read more) Gulf states get first $113M from oil spill pleas By Jeff Amy, Associated Press. Nov. 14, 2013. “Environmental advocates applauded the $40.4 million for a diversion from the west bank …
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Announces Nearly $68 Million for Louisiana Restoration Projects
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Greeson, National Audubon Society, 503.913.8978, egreeson@audubon.org Emily Guidry Schatzel, National Wildlife Federation, 225.253.9781, schatzele@nwf.org Elizabeth Skree, Environmental Defense Fund, 202.553.2543, eskree@edf.org National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Announces Nearly $68 Million for Louisiana Restoration Projects $40.4 million dedicated to Mid-Barataria Diversion, a critical project to comprehensive coastal restoration (New Orleans, LA – November 14, 2013) Today, leading national and local conservation and restoration organizations – Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and the …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 14, 2013
Virtual information hub to put a cork in future oil spills By Olivia Schultze, The Daily Cougar (Houston, Texas). Nov. 14, 2013. “UH is establishing a virtual research center in collaboration with two other Texas universities in order to prevent another oil spill like BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident…” (read more) The secret environmental cost of US ethanol policy By Associated Press. Nov. 12, 2013. “…The nitrates travel down rivers and into the Gulf of Mexico, where they boost the growth of enormous …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 13, 2013
Jefferson, Plaquemines parishes file wetland damage lawsuits against dozens of oil, gas, pipeline companies By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). Nov. 12, 2013. “Attorneys representing Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes have filed several lawsuits in state courts demanding that dozens of oil, gas and pipeline companies repair damage caused by dredging and other operations, and remove waste materials that were improperly disposed in wetlands, all in violation of the terms of permits allowing them to operate in each parish’s “coastal zone”…” (read …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 12, 2013
Washington Briefs: Vitter introduces sequestration bill By Jordan Blum, The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.). Nov. 12, 2013. “U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., teamed with U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., to introduce the new Return Our State Shares Act to exempt certain programs, including the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund, from being impacted by the ongoing sequestration budget cuts…” (read more) Morganza process is still alive By The Daily Comet (Lafouche Parish, La.). Nov. 9, 2013. “The movement of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 8, 2013
State cuts funding to levee authority that sued oil and gas companies By Bob Marshall, The Lens (New Orleans, La.). Nov. 7, 2013. “It isn’t often that an agency has its state funding eliminated, and rarer still when one says it can do its job after that axe falls. But that’s what the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East said after learning Thursday that the Jindal administration had eliminated its entire $500,000 state appropriation — in what some observers believe is …
Media Advisory: Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle Signage Unveiling and Press Conference
Media Advisory for Friday, November 15, 2013 Contact: Elizabeth Skree, Environmental Defense Fund, 202.553.2543, eskree@edf.org Emily Guidry Schatzel, National Wildlife Federation, 225.253.9781, schatzele@nwf.org Erin Greeson, National Audubon Society, 503.913-8978, egreeson@audubon.org Arthur Johnson, The Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development, 504.421.9643, ajohnson@sustainthenine.org Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle Signage Unveiling and Press Conference New educational, interactive signs teach visitors about need for coastal restoration Each year, thousands of people visit the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle viewing platform in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. …
Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign volunteers plant 250 trees in Big Mar basin
By Theryn Henkel, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation Since 2009, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation (LPBF) has been actively documenting the development of an emergent delta in the receiving basin, Big Mar, of the Caernarvon Diversion outfall canal on the east side of the Mississippi River south of New Orleans. Since October 2010, in partnership with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL), LPBF has conducted tree plantings within Big Mar as part of a Restore the Earth Foundation grant-funded reforestation …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 7, 2013
Video: A look at Mississippi River diversions with Captain Ryan Lambert By The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.). Nov. 6, 2013. “This edition of “The Advocate: On The Outside” with Advocate outdoors writer Joe Macaluso and videographer Gary Krouse takes a look at Mississippi River diversions with Captain Ryan Lambert…” (See more) Public-radio documentary examines threat to Louisiana’s coastline from rising seas By Dave Walker, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). Nov. 6, 2013. “Rising seas and their threat to Louisiana’s coastline …
Basics of the Basin research symposium discusses past, present and future of the Pontchartrain Basin
By Shannon Hood and Estelle S. Robichaux, Environmental Defense Fund On October 24-25, 2013, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation (LPBF) hosted its 11th Basics of the Basin research symposium. Scientists and researchers from academia, non-profit organizations, private consulting groups and federal and state agencies gathered at the University of New Orleans (UNO) on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain to discuss the past, present and future issues of the Pontchartrain Basin. LPBF has hosted these biennial symposiums since 1992, providing an …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 6, 2013
BP launches new website defending the company’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). Nov. 5, 2013. “BP has launched a new website to counter critics and provide its own spin on developments involving the April 2010 blowout of its Macondo well, which caused the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drillship, the death of 11 workers and an 87-day oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico…” (read more) Auburn researcher says tar balls are “magnets for …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 5, 2013
The Louisiana Coast: Last Call — Diversions? By Bob Marshall, WWNO (New Orleans, La.). Nov. 4, 2013. “Anyone following the development of the Master Plan for the Louisiana coast knows that the central part of the plan is also its most controversial: large scale river diversions, opening the levees on the sides of the Mississippi River south of New Orleans to let the silt-carrying Mississippi out into these sinking deltas to begin rebuilding them…” (read more) President to visit New …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 4, 2013
Stronger efforts needed to reduce nitrate pollution in Mississippi River basin By Sandra Postel, National Geographic. Nov. 1, 2013. “Despite growing concern over the last two decades about the low-oxygen “dead zone” that emerges each summer in the fisheries-rich Gulf of Mexico, the nitrate pollution at the root of the problem continues to rise…” (read more) New techniques speed oyster growth, harvests By Xerxes Wilson, The Houma Courier (Houma, La.). Nov. 1, 2013. “As oil began to coat the Louisiana shoreline …
Latest Mississippi River Delta News: Nov. 1, 2013
Environmental groups, residents challenge Plaquemines coal terminal permit in state court By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.). Oct. 31, 2013. “A trio of environmental groups has paired with several Plaquemines Parish residents in mounting a state court challenge to a permit issued by the state Department of Natural Resources for construction of a new coal and petroleum coke terminal in Myrtle Grove…” (read more) Lawsuit seeks to block coal export permit in Plaquemines Parish; Sediment diversion slated for same site By …