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By admin on September 23, 2010
The federal government should establish a trust fund to pay for coastal restoration projects in states along the northern Gulf Coast, to be initially financed by penalties paid for violating federal laws, including 80 percent of any fines levied as a result of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, concludes a report released Tuesday by America’s Energy Coast and its parent America’s Wetland Foundation.
Posted in Community, News, News Articles, Recovery, Storm Protection and Preparedness | Tagged Coastal Restoration
By admin on September 14, 2010
A multimillion-dollar plan to fortify three outfall canals so they can safely hold more water relies on tons of clay, steel and hardened subterranean columns, reinforcements that federal government engineers say will stop the kinds of infrastructure failures that flooded much of metro New Orleans and the adjacent Old Metairie-Old Jefferson area during Hurricane Katrina.
Posted in Community, News, News Articles, Recovery, Storm Protection and Preparedness | Tagged Outfall Canals
By admin on September 13, 2010
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu and U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise on Monday used the backdrop of the Audubon Zoo’s swamp exhibit as the setting for their latest call for support of legislation that would direct 80 percent of the money collected from BP for violations of the Clean Water Act to coastal restoration projects in states along the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted in Community, Economic Development, News, News Articles, Recovery, Storm Protection and Preparedness | Tagged Coastal Restoration
By admin on June 18, 2010
City Council Vice President Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson and Council President Arnie Fielkow traveled with C-Span to Plaquemines Parish to speak with Parish President Billy Nungesser and survey the latest oil spill damage.
Posted in News, Photo Galleries, Storm Protection and Preparedness | Tagged 100 Year Flood Protection, Coastal Restoration, Deepwater Horizon oil spill
By admin on October 19, 2009
“We’re not giving up,” Clarkson said. “The Corps is mistakenly pursuing a ‘cheaper’ plan that will actually put our area at risk for dramatic costs in life and property – and we cannot let this happen.”
Posted in News, Press Releases, Recovery, Storm Protection and Preparedness | Tagged 100 Year Flood Protection, Options 1 2 and 2a, Outfall Canals, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
By admin on July 22, 2009
Times Picayune – New Orleans Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson was more blunt. “We’re going to let the corps, who can’t walk and chew gum, operate pumps in tandem? I don’t think so, “she said.
Posted in News, News Articles, Recovery, Storm Protection and Preparedness | Tagged 100 Year Flood Protection, Options 1 2 and 2a, Outfall Canals, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
By admin on July 20, 2009
“There is no real choice here,” Clarkson said. “We simply need to follow the science and not the money. The important fact here is that lives and property will be lost or saved depending upon which method the Corps pursues. And what is the value of a life?”
Posted in News, Press Releases, Recovery, Storm Protection and Preparedness | Tagged 100 Year Flood Protection, Options 1 2 and 2a, Outfall Canals, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
By admin on July 20, 2009
Times Picayune – “I simply ask what’s the cost of a life, because that’s what at stake,” said New Orleans Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson. She said the adopting the corps alternative also will reinforce the decisions of city residents “who refuse to come back and live with the status quo that already failed them.”
Posted in News, News Articles, Recovery, Storm Protection and Preparedness | Tagged 100 Year Flood Protection, Options 1 2 and 2a, Outfall Canals, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
By admin on June 30, 2009
“This is a major component of hurricane protection for New Orleans,” Clarkson said. “We owe Senator Boxer a sincere ‘thank you’ for taking up our cause and insisting the Corps give New Orleans real flood protection. We also owe as great a ‘thank you’ to Senator Landrieu, who has continued to powerfully advocate for this cause in Washington.”
Posted in News, Press Releases, Recovery, Storm Protection and Preparedness | Tagged 100 Year Flood Protection, Options 1 2 and 2a, Outfall Canals, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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