re: More than $2 billion approved for unprecedented Louisiana coastal restoration project

If they let the Mississippi go the way it wants to go, we wouldn’t need this.

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Lawsuits over/under at 20.

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20 lawsuits, or 20 years to settle lawsuits?
Or are you implying both?

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. This will put freshwater intrusion directly into Barataria and ultimately towards Grand Isle. Oysters, speckled trout, red fish and shrimp estuaries will be destroyed.

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So basically the way it was before we messed with Mother Nature?

Leeville had cotton farms in the early 1900’s. I’m guessing that wasn’t a salt water marsh then.

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This will put freshwater intrusion directly into Barataria and ultimately towards Grand Isle.

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We've been dealing with saltwater intrusion for decades now so don't you think a little reversal would be beneficial?

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wreck-less

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For frick's sake.

Wow, that is a lot further up the river than I imagined a project such as this would be located, but makes total sense. I fear its much too little and much too late. The marsh behind Venice and up into Barataria is unrecognizable from what it was thirty years ago. I cant imagine that the amount of area lost could be reversed in that same amount of time.

$2 billion to put a bandaid on two amputated legs

You left out Fat Billy's new house..

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That money will also pay for a program aiming to deal with the approximately 2,200 bottlenose dolphins living in Barataria Bay that are expected to be killed within a year or two of the project's start of operations...... Wednesday's decision did not give a dollar figure for bottlenose dolphin programs, but the state in the past said it planned on spending $60 million.

The dolphin plan will include experts reviewing potential intervention activities. Dolphin exposure to freshwater will likely be studied as the diversion begins operations to determine how they respond to intervention activities. Those could include herding dolphins away from low-salinity areas.

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This is why we cant have nice things.

They are assuming that 2200 bottlenose dolphins will indeed be killed by "freshwater exposure"? What the frick? I thought dolphins were smart. Wont they just swim their arse to areas with higher salinity? By the way, that comes to $28k PER dolphin. You could send the mother frickers to Nicholls State (in state tuition of course) for four years for that.

Finally doing something for us.