Latest news: January 26, 2012
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New Orleans Protection Plan Will Rely on Wetlands to Hold Back Hurricanes By Mark Fischetti, Scientific American. January 26, 2012. “More than six years after Hurricane Katrina plowed into New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, a plan has finally emerged to protect the area from future storms…” Master plan forgets bayou communities, residents say By Nikki Buskey, Houma Courier. January 25, 2012. “The state’s new 50-year, $50 billion draft plan for coastal protection and restoration does not do enough …
Latest news: January 25, 2012
Take the long view on Louisiana’s coastal restoration plan: An editorial By Editorial Page Staff, The Times-Picayune. January 25, 2012. “Louisiana’s first public hearing on its proposed 50-year master plan for coastal restoration and protection, held in New Orleans Monday, drew criticism from fishers who oppose large diversions of freshwater and sediment because they fear damage to their industry. The master plan offers speculative land-building at the cost of saltwater species, they argued…” GOP congressional challengers oppose RESTORE act By …
Audubon mini dredge: Building land at Rainey, one acre at a time
By Kevin Chandler, Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign Louisiana coastal restoration often seems like a distant process – a product of reports and large-scale projects. And while reconnecting the Mississippi River to its delta is ultimately the only sustainable way to save Louisiana’s coast, the National Audubon Society’s Louisiana Coastal Initiative team has devised a way to put short-term local restoration efforts affordably in the hands of local property owners. For this, enter the John James, a 24-foot dredge operated …
Latest news: January 24, 2012
Fishers say coastal master plan could destroy their livelihoods By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune. January 24, 2012. “Fishers from St. Bernard, Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes on Monday night objected to the reliance of the state’s proposed $50 billion, 50-year coastal restoration and protection master plan on large diversions of freshwater and sediment, charging that the freshwater will destroy their ability to catch shrimp and saltwater fish species…” Tough choices in new plan to restore coast By Zoe Sullivan, The Louisiana …
Latest news: January 23, 2012
Master plan for coastal restoration gives hope: Bob Marshall By Bob Marshall, The Times-Picayune. January 22, 2012. “We need to discuss two words today: Hope and courage. In almost 40 years of covering the state’s coastal crisis, “hope” is a word I’ve seldom been able to write…” Louisiana coastal restoration forecast: An editorial By Editorial Page Staff, The Times-Picayune. January 22, 2012. “Protecting and restoring Louisiana’s coast is an urgent priority for this state, and the draft plan for fiscal …
Louisiana Coastal Master Plan public meetings start today
By David Muth, National Wildlife Federation Louisiana’s Draft 2012 Coastal Master Plan, released Jan. 12, is the most ambitious ecosystem restoration plan proposed in United States history and is the first to lay out a comprehensive vision for how a coastal state will cope with land loss, subsidence, and projected sea-level rise over the next half century. With an expenditure of $1 billion per year over 50 years, split equally between protection and restoration, Louisiana could build or prevent the loss of …
Latest news: January 20, 2012
Separate the RESTORE Act from partisan politics (editorial) By Press-Register Editorial Board, The Mississippi Press-Register. January 20, 2012. “CONGRESS MAY be embroiled in partisan politics, but the RESTORE the Gulf Coast Act has no place in this tug of war…” Coastal plan worthy of support By Don Shoopman, The Daily Iberian. January 19, 2012. “As always, the local angle is the preferred one for The Daily Iberian, especially when it deals with the valuable Louisiana coast line in the Teche …
Meet Morgan Crutcher
As the technical and policy assistant at the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL), Morgan provides staff with accurate and reliable scientific, technical, and policy information for the purpose of establishing CRCL’s advocacy positions. Her broad range of previous work includes lobbying D.C. congressional staff for passage of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act for Ducks Unlimited, building nutria captivity pens in a flotant marsh for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in Louisiana, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software …
Latest news: January 19, 2012
BP May Pay U.S. $25 Billion for Gulf Spill, Morgan Stanley Says By Brian Swint, Bloomberg News. January 19, 2012. “BP Plc (BP/), the operator of the Macondo well that caused the worst U.S. oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, may reach a settlement with the U.S. for as much as $25 billion, Morgan Stanley said…” Louisiana coastal restoration spending plan proposed By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune. January 19, 2012. “Louisiana would spend $923 million on hurricane …
Latest news: January 18, 2012
Coastians speak out about oil-spill damage at meeting By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald (Biloxi, Miss.). January 17, 2012. “GAUTIER — A crowd of about 150 listened to ways federal and state officials plan to hold BP to its promise to make the Gulf whole in the wake of the 2010 oil-spill disaster…” The importance of coastlines By Editorial Staff, The St. Tammany News. January 18, 2012. “Currently there are two bills making their way through Congress, that if passed …
Latest news: January 17, 2012
Louisiana’s updated coastal restoration plan is a map to the future: An editorial By Editorial Page Staff, The Times-Picayune. January 15, 2012. “The state’s updated plan for coastal restoration lays out two vastly different pictures of the future for Louisiana — one dire, one hopeful…” Getting started on BP oil spill repairs: An editorial By Editorial Page Staff, The Times-Picayune. January 17, 2012. “The list of initial projects covered by $1 billion pledged by BP to begin to repair the …
Latest news: January 13, 2012
States picks winners and losers in new coastal plan By John Snell, WVUE-TV, New Orleans. January 12, 2012. “New Orleans, LA– The State of Louisiana launched the most detailed, and in some ways, most ambitious plan yet to rebuild its coastline…” Bold plan proposed to save coastal Louisiana By Cain Burdeau, Associated Press. January 12, 2012. “NEW ORLEANS—A $50 billion, 50-year proposal aspires to stop coastal land loss in Louisiana, build new levee systems to protect cities and even begin to slowly reverse …
Latest news: January 12, 2012
Louisiana coastal restoration 50-year blueprint released By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune. January 12, 2012 “Declaring Louisiana’s loss of coastal wetlands “nothing short of a national emergency,” state officials today released a $50 billion, 50-year strategy for rebuilding land and increasing protection from storm surge for coastal communities that they say can be paid for with money the state is reasonably sure it will receive…” 2012 Coastal Master Plan, some say best in years WWL-TV. January 12, 2012. “NEW ORLEANS – For …
2012 Coastal Master Plan Offers Long-Term Vision, Flexibility for Louisiana
By Scott Madere, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana The release of the 2012 Coastal Master Plan by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana is a major milestone in the effort to protect and restore our coastal wetlands. While it is not the first long-range plan for addressing the issue of coastal land loss, it is the best strategic approach we have to date for guiding Louisiana through this very complicated process. And it is the first official plan …
Latest news: January 11, 2012
Dauphin Island fish show up with lesions, BP spill link questioned By Ben Raines, Press-Register. January 11, 2012. “DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama — More than half the fish caught Monday by Press-Register reporters in the surf off Dauphin Island had bloody red lesions on their bodies. Fishing along an uninhabited portion of the barrier island during a trip to survey beaches for tarballs, the newspaper caught 21 fish, 14 of them with lesions. Of those fish, eight had lesions a quarter …