re: Cancellation of Mid-Barataria Diversion project could cost Louisiana at least $700 million

This state really is run by the biggest morons in the world. Louisiana sucks. Yet I still live in it so you can say I'm dumb and suck too.

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Cancellation of Mid-Barataria Diversion project

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Happy to hear they shut down this waste of time and money.

The state needs to focus on manual land building. They're doing that on other parts of the coast and it works very well. The amount of land created for the cost and time scale is hilariously small.

In 45 years and billions later...

IIRC, sometime after Katrina the Corps of Engineers told Plaquemines Parish they couldn’t justify spending $4 billion, or whatever the huge number, to raise their levees from Belle Chase down to Venice to the same height as Nola, to protect a population of 25,000 people.

Katrina destroyed most of the marsh east of the river south of Delacroix, while coastal erosion has done the same for Barataria Bay. I have fished those areas for decades and the change from marsh to open water is remarkable and stunning.

That cat is out of the bag and not coming back to its former condition, even with the Diversion Project. Mardi Gras Pass, naturally created by the river on the east side, is a good example of how fresh water flow has rebuilt marsh in that area. To say we’ll do nothing, or dredge our way out of this as advocated by Nungesser et al, isn’t going to work.

The Diversion is a band aid but sorely needed. To say we’ll imperil the future of a million or so people for the wishes of 25,000 is not sound political leadership or wise. If it were in my power, I’d blow the levees somewhere south of Belle Chase and let the river do its thing, build land.

Do nothing and Nola Westbank levees in 50 years will be adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico, while Plaquemines Parish will be gone. New Orleans won’t be far behind, and it will be mostly open water between Baton Rouge and the Gulf.

We unfortunately live in a State that does political stupidity very, very well. At some point the Feds will quit bailing us out. Cancel the Diversion Project and you can kiss the coastline below Nola goodbye.

I’m a Louisiana Republican who will sign a recall effort if this is stopped.

I can’t emphasize the stupidity of Landry and this administration so far. The Republican Party of Louisiana should be ashamed.

I will vote for any Republican that runs against him at this point and he’s barely into his tenure.

So.... how about a boycott?

This is a local power play, no different than Livingston, EBR, WBR, Ascension and Iberville all at some point in the past 3 decades torpedoing a new bridge for one reason or another.

Governors only have so much power when a parish says no. Hell in 2006 I believe the people of Brusly, Addis and Port Allen killed a bridge in favor of saving the Cinclair Sugarmill, now the bitch to the high heavens about traffic.

Last go around it was Ascension that killed it because of wetlands.

Now it is some ancient forestry coalition trying to kill the location.

People forget that politics is local and local parish do most of the screwing to the citizens of the state.

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"Being a past parish president, I believe it’s up to the parish to be satisfied.”

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What about the neighboring parishes that will (not might, will) suffer down the line for this stupidity?

"...a billion dollars, or $700 million, or whatever...."

---"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."--Senator Everett Dirksen

Oyster mafia

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Dove suggested it is possible the contractor could be liable for damages to sub-contractors, not the state. However, he conceded that is not a certainty.

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That seems fair, right? The contractors biggest mistake? He contracted with Loser-iana.