Louisiana's Governor Declares State Of Emergency Over Disappearing Coastline

[ashling]

A boy fishes on a bayou near Isle de Jean Charles, La., in August 2015. Louisiana is still losing about a football field of coastline every hour.
Lee Celano/AFP/Getty Images

"The juxtaposition of urgency and long-term planning is necessary when it comes to the coast, state officials have said. Projects to help stave off land loss will take years to design and build, but an emergency declaration could cut years off the permitting process for those projects."

imagine if it took as long long to permit deepwater oil and gas drilling as it does to permit a project which will actually help to save some of the earth!

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/20/524896256/louisianas-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-disappearing-coastline

[DFW]

1. But Louisiana keeps on electing Republicans who say there is no emergency

There is no warming, there is no sea rising, and all this land loss is a figment of the imagination of everyone who notices it.

Until Mar-a-Lago becomes all "Mar" and their golf course can only be navigated with scuba gear. THEN there will be an emergency.

[MadLinguist]

10. This governor is Democratic

[DFW]

15. That's true enough

I was indeed thinking about their two Senators

[elleng]

2. No sh*t, sherlock!

[TheBlackAdder]

3. ie. Send more Federal Money taken from Blue States to our Socialist-loving Red State!

[former9thward]

4. "Louisiana is still losing about a football field of coastline every hour."

What utter anti-science nonsense. If that were true it would be losing 500 miles a year. Far more than the entire state would be gone. Fake news.

[Sgent]

5. 100 yd x 50 yd

= 14 sq miles / year. Other sources have LA losing as much as 30 sq mi / year.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/la-wetlands/

[former9thward]

6. Sorry your math is so poor.

A football field is 300 feet long. Times 24 hours x 365 days divided by 5280 feet a mile yields 497 miles. Try again.

[Sgent]

8. Ok

100 yds x 50 yds = 5,000 sq yds x 24 x 365 = 43,800,000 sq yd / 3,097,600 sq yard per mile = 14.1 sq mi

[airplaneman]

11. 479 miles by 50 yard deep is 14.1 square miles exactly what is lost per year.

You seem to thing in one dimension and think lost is there is no more coastline.
Area is two dimensional.
Land is being lost to the sea.
-Airplane

[former9thward]

18. That is not what the caption said and you know it.

[ProudLib72]

7. Hope they can afford a healthcare plan

that includes gill transplants. Buh bye, Louisiana

[Honeycombe8]

9. It's sold its soul to the oil & gas & chemical industries.

While letting the natural environment of the state go. It's not nearly the state it used to be. High crime, polluted. And now, it's disappearing.

[No Vested Interest]

12. The Weather Chanel has been running a segment on the disappearing coast in Louisiana.

Most interesting, but too involved/scientific for me to describe here.

Interestingly enough, many who live and work there are deniers.

[duncang]

13. Some really good people down there

I worked around Houma/Cocodrie area a long time back and have been back several times. This is the area what really has problems with land loss. Part of it is being washed away some just any rise in the water level. Toward Cocodrie the land, homes and roads down there are just a few inches above the bayou water level. The people I've know were really nice and not deserving some of the comments I have heard. When you actually talk to them yes there were r's and d's but there were a lot who didn't fit in either party. They may have some right views and some left. Most of the time in bars they will talk about day to day stuff. Maybe fishing hunting, etc. But I have seen some discussions in bars and it pretty much it was a one issue item what would influence the vote. A lot of they are all politicians are crooks chats with the people I have meet.


The people I have worked with and known down there aren't people to be scorned. They are people who either have or will probably lose their house and property. Like I said some really good people who just think about getting food on the table day to day.
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[pansypoo53219]

14. they CHOSE OIL over land. levees over flood & feed the land. OOPS.

[Duppers]

16. Good point. nt

[Achilleaze]

17. Trump & KGOP cabal need to tell Louisiana that they are hallucinating

This cannot be happening. The republican party has declared this kinda shit is a hoax.

republicans wouldn't lie to Americans, would they?