‘He really turned the tide’: oyster people la. Gov. $ 3 billion project financed by Deepwater Horizon settlement

The Middle-Barataria Sediment Provocation Project was designed to restore 20 square miles (32 kilometers) in the city of Southern East Louisiana on the sea level and erosion on the Gulf coast. Money should be used coastal recovery If the state has already spent $ 618 million spent, it was not immediately clear and Federal guardians warned last year.

Security teams and other supporters of the project stressed that it is an ambitious, scientific-based approach to reduce the worst effects Lose the coastline in a position that a football field lost from every 100 minutes. Due to a number of factors, due to a number of factors, due to a number of factors, a number of factors that grow climate change and the restoration of the sea level and natural land restoration, the Mississippi River would redirect.

“Science has not changed and does not need urgent measures,” he said. “What has changed the political landscape.”

The project was mainly bought bipartisan support and if the champion was championed by the Democratic Gov, John Belvards, Republic Gov. Jeff Landry became a vocal opponent after starting last year. Price and intensified concerns that the mass flow of freshwater destroys fishing trusts in the livelihood of local communities.

Landry said the project would be “Break” culture of Louisiana The harvest of shrimp and oyster was compared to the efforts of the schoolchildren to punish the French language for schoolchildren a century ago.

“We struggled for a long time in this battle, but Gov. Landry is the reason for our winning in this battle,” the department of Louisiana Oyster Task Form, which sues the project on environmental impact. “Really turned the tide.”

Louisiana Guardian’s implementation group, the Coalition of Federal Agencies since the Gulf Oil Spill of the Gulf of Federal Agencies, in mid-Barataria project, “no longer processing” and “no longer inconvenience” for the process of terminating the project.

A spokesperson for the protection and recovery body of the coast of Louisiana confirmed that the Associated Press has been liquidation.