Jun
10
2014
Originally reported on March 3rd, 2014. Read original report here.
Update:
The nominating committee voted that it has no obligation to submit new people for the levee authority board if the governor rejects a qualified nominee, like he did with current board...
Jun
10
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on February 27th, 2014. View original post here.
The first report by an expert scientific panel convened to answer questions about using river sediment diversions to rebuild the coast focuses on a central issue: The inherent uncertainties...
Feb
25
2014
Posted on The Lens on February 20th, 2013. View original post here.
Death and taxes may be the only certainties of life in the rest of the nation, but residents of southeast Louisiana have one more: subsidence.
Getting a sinking feeling...
Feb
25
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on February 17th, 2014. View original post here.
What’s more worrisome?
A. The Army Corps of Engineers is repairing a newly-built levee that has subsided as much as six inches — the second such repair in...
Feb
25
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on February 7th, 2014. View original post here.
Last month, Jay Lapeyre, the leader of the nominating committee for the local flood authority, received a letter from Garret Graves, head of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s coastal office. It...
Feb
25
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on January 22nd, 2014. View original post here.
Jonathan Henderson was shouting to be heard over the engine noise in the small plane as it circled above an oil rig just off the Louisiana coast....
Feb
25
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on December 18th, 2013. View original post here.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster was just a month old and BP’s crude oil was still gushing from the Gulf floor when state officials began to grasp...
Feb
25
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on December 11th, 2013. View original post here.
If you’re developing one of the largest river management projects in the world — an initiative with social, economic and political challenges — where do you look...
Feb
25
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on December 6th, 2013. View original post here.
The local levee authority might want to start using a bell instead of a gavel at its meetings.
That might be more appropriate for the intramural boxing match...
Feb
25
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on December 4th, 2013. View original post here.
The St. Bernard Parish Council took a first step on Tuesday toward joining Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes in suing oil and gas companies for industry damage to...
