re: Louisiana officially canceling Mid-Barataria Diversion, state's biggest coastal project

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Good news: You save that money now.

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besides all the money you're gonna have to pay the contractor for canceling, and the millions already spent planning this. Then what ever is left has to be spent on a lesser diversion project 10 years from now

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Yes. It is expensive to do it the right way and give all those against the project less to bitch about.

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Unfortunately, they couldn’t “give” enough to those against the project.

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I’m sure there is a logical reason. Maybe it makes it more difficult to navigate the River near the mouth. No idea.

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A lot of this. The river goes slower if they let the river out before head of pass/south pass. Slower river means more sediment dropped. More dredging to keep the main pass open.

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Unfortunately, they couldn’t “give” enough to those against the project.

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Well it kind of helps the opposition when the sitting Governor made a promise to kill the project in exchange for an easier election path.

Some Baw at the Naval Air Station needs to fly about 5 miles south and accidentally drop some ordinance directly on the levee at Jesuit bend. Mother nature will start to heal its coastline.




Unfortunately I think Nunguesser may live a little up the road from there. So may need to accidentally make two drops to save Louisiana

Jumping into this a few days late but a couple of things to unpack here. The land gain looks insignificant until you take into account the reversal of land loss. Places like this cannot gain land until they reverse the land loss - which this project would have done. It was also part of a larger plan that is now in the shitter.
For all of the yahoos that talk about our money or we are saving money - just stop. It is not any of our money - this is BP oil spill money that is managed by a trust and allocated to coastal land projects in gulf states - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. At the end of the day - this was a 3 billion dollar construction project that the taxpayers of Louisiana were not paying for. Now - who is responsible for the half of a billion that has already been spent for nothing? There is so much to unpack on this and none of it good.

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The land gain looks insignificant until you take into account the reversal of land loss. Places like this cannot gain land until they reverse the land loss - which this project would have done. It was also part of a larger plan that is now in the shitter.
For all of the yahoos that talk about our money or we are saving money - just stop. It is not any of our money - this is BP oil spill money that is managed by a trust and allocated to coastal land projects in gulf states - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. At the end of the day - this was a 3 billion dollar construction project that the taxpayers of Louisiana were not paying for.

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Thank you.

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I’m not to an engineer or an expert in flood prevention or coastal restoration, but common sense tells me that gifted three billion dollars, La. should be able to come up with a plan to better our state and not waste the money.

Unfortunately we could not,

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Correct - and such a shame.
No matter where any of the "experts" stood on the correct or incorrect way to both negate land loss and then subsequently build land, this was a 3 billion dollar construction project. Taxpayers were not paying for this. This would have boosted the local economy south of New Orleans and into New Orleans - providing the state and local economies with tax revenue. Now that is gone, along with over 600 billion dollars that has already been spent that the trust might just demand be repaid.

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The land gain looks insignificant until you take into account the reversal of land loss.

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You ever had oysters so good you stopped giving a shite about the land loss?