re: LA Oyster Task Force on Cancelation of Diversion Project: Victory for LA's Working Coast

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Y'all need to wake and stop electing the republicans just because the opponent has a D next to their name.

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There hasn't been a fricking democrat governor in my lifetime who was worth a shite for this state. And the Republicans weren't much better, albeit for different reasons. Louisiana exemplifies the phrase "broken system".

I will be interested to see what these retards have to say when the next big hurricane wipes away the homes and businesses of the "thousands of hardworking Louisianians who make their living on the water" because of the continued loss of land due mainly to subsidence, which this project was aiming to mitigate.

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So dumb. The marsh is disappearing before our eyes. the oyster fishermen are part of it--dredging oyster beds, causing erosion.

This was the best option we had to add land, and we scrapped it.

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You're not wrong, but let's all keep things in perspective here. We're talking about the federal government and some of its most inept, bureaucratic, activist agencies, along with the Louisiana government (speaks for itself regarding corruption): there is NO TELLING what the price tag would've wound up being, when it'd get done, if it'd even get done, and to what extent it would do what it was intended to do.

I'm not saying it's not a noble, badly needed endeavor, but the same government who created the problem and who is now going to "fix it," is also just as likely to wind up pissing away the money and causing even more irreparable damage. The kind of people that wind up being politicians and bureaucrats are, collectively, the largest contiguous group of dumbass narcissists that ever lived. As a group, they couldn't run an ice cream stand unless it was with unlimited funds from someone else's check book.

Exhibit A is the massive amount of funding they've used to get to the starting line in order to announce they've quit the race before it even started. This is the problem with government and large, multi-year civil projects: we have politicians too concerned with the next election cycle, unelected bureaucrats who know nothing except bureaucratic red tape, and behind the curtain are the people lining both groups' pockets with money to get their way. Private industry would not, and by economic laws, can not operate in this manner and still be in business.

It's not at all unreasonable to say that the taxpayers of LA and the entire country dodged a bullet, and unfortunately it's at the further expense of the LA marshes that they allowed to be exploited with impunity. This was just as likely to be a catastrophic front seat view of the Dunning-Kruger effect playing out in real time.

I get what you are saying - but I was led to believe that the funding was pretty air tight once the BP money was awarded. In other words - once the BP trust approves a project and then awards/allocates the money - there is a very low level of fraud/shenningans/theft or whatever you want to call it that is possible. There is always that stuff - especially in Louisiana - but the funding for this seemed to be pretty solid. Not saying fraud or theft proof but pretty close.

frick all of them

Follow the money. This is 10 mintues worth of research. I'm sure I could find way more, but I just filtered Billy's donations to show oyster companies. I didn't even look for personal names of the people that own these companies, or close relatives, or PACs associated with Nungesser.

Fat frick.

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Theory: This has jack frick to do with the oystermen.

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It has everything to do with the oystermen. They’re the only ones who can’t easily just travel a few extra miles to fish higher salinity water and follow their target species.

I don’t know why the menhaden industry would even care about the diversion since they aren’t legally allowed to operate their boats within a half mile of the coast anyway. By the time you get all the way to the gulf, the salinity change from the diversion would be negligible at best. The pogey boats operate all around the mouth of the river in Venice, so freshwater from the river isn’t stopping them there.

Oystermen are just trying to make it sound like the project being stopped helps all the various commercial fisheries instead of it being self serving to only the oyster industry since they can’t just up and move their leases that’ll be impacted by the diversion.

So we jeopardize millions of people so that a couple of thousand people don’t have to drive their boat further to fish.

And we were going to cover the additional cost of their additional travel.

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Because Honor Chode and Blanco were so great for Louisiana and our economy right?

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about half the state thinks they were good for the state. Almost 100% agree landry and jindal were terrible governors.