re: Gov. Landry has pulled the plug on Louisiana’s biggest coastal project, Tulane expert says

I understand that argument and cede you that point. I'll counter with the argument that the experts around after Katrina had a proven track record of saving coast lines and preventing land loss, subsidence, and flooding. Delta Works and Zuiderzee Works in the Netherlands has worked.

So, in just one response, youde frick up culture, and disrupt, if not bankrupt, an industry operated in the region...to gain 25 miles over 50 years?
At what point do you stop fricking with the natural flow of the river? Haven't we fricked it up enough with man's stupid projects?


I dont claim to be any expert except being smart enough to know we dont have the money 1st and foremost.

South Louisiana deserves everything they get from electing their shite governors. Landry destroying the seafood industry, the housing and auto insurance market getting worse, and not building any new bridges is a great start in just his first year on the job.

South La has 3 more years of their man Landry, and 95% will vote to re-elect him again. As Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid". South La voters are stupid.

I don't get why people keep saying that the money is "wasted". It's there and it has to be spent on coastal projects along the Gulf Coast. And yes - it is a use it or lose it situation. Louisiana taxpayers don't just get back 3 billion dollars if it's not spent on this particular project. The way that it's been described to me is that is is gaining land mass back as it is fighting the loss through erosion. But - back to the money. It is finding it's way into people's pockets. And a lot of those people are local to the area - local contractors that hire local laborers. And those people are now renting apartments from local landlords and eating at restaurants and shopping at local stores. There is definitely a lot of money going around but a lot is staying local and bleeding back into the economy. The company that I work for set up shop in the NOLA area because of the small portion of the project that we were awarded. We now have expanded to another location and are working on a 3rd and have hired 4 local employees and used countless local contractors to help set up our facilities. And we are a very very very small part of that overall project. Which may not happen now.

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And a lot of those people are local to the area

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These arent the people getting the grift. These are the people doing the work, paid by the grifters

See also the movie industry, Hollywood is still getting rich filming in La. because they get to keep the taxes. The people of La are not getting rich from films. See also GA. Their film industry is on its last legs because of politics. No one got rich, and the industry is still raking in billions elsewhere

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The film and TV industry has been slow to recover in Georgia. Production has dipped below pre-pandemic levels. Thousands of specialized workers, including camera operators, visual-effects artists and technicians in film, are now scrambling to find jobs.

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Open up bayou lafourche at donaldsonville and let nature do its thing like it intended.

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Haven't we been doing that, though slowly and man-controlled rather than nature-controlled?

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The money is coming from BP settlement and federal funds.

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Uh huh

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state is going to be on the hook for breach of contract with contractors hired to do the project

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So, they'll settle.

Drop the stupid legacy and erosion lawsuits, bring back the enormous industries we chased out with the suits, and they will help us restore things without the threat of being sued for doing legally permitted things.

Understand, the studies and government geniuses are what got us here.

One thing we cannot afford is to have to pay the half a billion back to the federal government BP fund that was already paid out to the contractors. This was paid for mobilization and keeps getting billed because contractors have hundreds of people out there and millions of dollars of equipment sitting out there for months not making money on other jobs. Again - it's not "our" money. It is money that was litigated from the BP oil spill that has been awarded to fund coastal projects along the Gulf Coast. We can definitely afford the project, because we (as a state) taxpayers are not paying anything. The money is already there. And is is and has been funneling its way into local pockets.
And the natural flow of the river prior to the levee system being built up over the last century was to dump sediment and freshwater into these areas to keep them built up and to keep saltwater intrusion at bay. The natural flow of the river was fricked with a long long time ago. This is just the best way of diverting sediment and fresh water back into a certain area without fricking with the levee system too much up and down the lower Mississippi.

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the $3.1 billion diversion would destroy Louisiana’s culture.

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What a lying sack of shite. There won’t be any land left down there without this project. He and all the commercial fishermen can go frick themselves.

It's pointless to spend a billion dollars on adjusting the bottom of the Barataria esp when the next big hurricane will come and change it again. Wtf was this even being funded tbw. Wow.

Stop hating on Landry. Any idiot knows the floor changes often esp with weather.