Jun
14
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on May 7th, 2014. View original post here.
Stephen Estopinal, an engineer on the board of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, says he has a concern that “keeps me up at night.”
What worries him...
Jun
14
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on April 22nd, 2014. View original post here.
If opponents of the sediment diversions in the 2012 Master Plan for the Coast ever write a book about their struggles, they might want to borrow the...
Jun
14
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on April 15th, 2014. View original post here.
Almost from the start, wildlife advocates described the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a war on the Gulf ecosystem. Few quibbled with that analogy as a record...
Jun
14
2014
Original posted on The Lens on April 11th, 2014. View original post here.
On a bright spring morning, P.J. Hahn is walking through a graveyard in the middle of Barataria Bay.
It’s a 30-yard patch of mud and sand bristling with...
Jun
10
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on April 3rd, 2014. View original post here.
Update: The committee nominated Tyrone Ben, a human-resources manager.
The next chapter in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s push to gain control of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East and its lawsuit...
Jun
10
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on April 2nd, 2014. View original post here.
Raising $50 billion for the ambitious Master Plan to rebuild the Louisiana coast was never going to be easy. Though the BP oil spill will yield billions...
Jun
10
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on March 28th, 2014. View original post here.
If you thought sinking land and rising seas were the only things we had to worry about in south Louisiana, think again.
Tsunamis have now joined the list.
Researchers...
Jun
10
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on March 27th, 2014. View original post here.
For decades the solution to the state’s coastal land loss seemed simple: Just punch a few holes in Mississippi River levees and let the mud-rich water spill...
Jun
10
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on March 14th, 2014. View original post here.
A recently published study by a team of economists from Louisiana State University and Mississippi State University disputes the state’s claim that large sediment diversions are more cost-effective...
Jun
10
2014
Original story posted on The Lens on March 13th, 2014. View original article here.
If your opponents in a lawsuit — in this case, all-powerful oil and gas companies — are trying the case in the court of public opinion,...
