The National Climate Assessment (NCA), released last month, paints a bleak future for the Gulf states. Compiled every 4 years by a 60-member Federal Advisory Committee and over 300 experts, the NCA examines the effects of climate change on the United States. According to the report, rising seas, increasing temperature, and decreasing freshwater are all […]
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Has Big Oil & Gas’ Undeclared Liabilities Undermined Confidence in the Industry?Originally posted to Disastermap.netby Dr. Ezra Boyd.Recently, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, a small flood protection board for the New Orleans area filed a lawsuit against 97 oil and gas companies that they allege caused damage to the region’s coastal wetlands, and hence
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Through hundreds of hours canoeing the Louisiana and Florida wetlands I have grown a deep love and appreciation for the diversity of the thriving ecosystems and interconnected wetlands along the Gulf coast. Years of logging and dredging of oil and gas canals have eroded and polluted our wetlands. Without fresh sediment from the Mississippi river
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Two Saturdays ago, a handful of us at the Gulf Restoration Network participated in the Bayou St. John Marsh Creation Project. The project – supported by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Restore the Earth Foundation, and the Orleans Levee District – was enacted to build half an acre of native marsh in the city of
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Photo: Paul KuzmichAttention Friends of the Gulf! This morning we scrambled up over 1,000 tickets from our annual Earth Month Drawing, thanks to Aveda. Every year, the Aveda salons of the Gulf Region sell raffle tickets for the entire month of April, and all proceeds go to us here at the Gulf Restoration Network. And
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By Devin Martin (re-posted from the Delta Sierran) On May 5, in the small town of Ironton, Plaquemines Parish, the St. Paul’s Missionary Baptist church held a celebratory service. Normally, this wouldn’t be news, at least not the kind of news that the Delta Sierran covers. But this was a special service the first to
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My name is Captain Markham Dickson, and I run Salty Dog Charters out of Shell Beach Louisiana. We are a coastal fishing charter targeting speckled trout, redfish, flounder and other coastal species from Lake Borgne to Breton Sound and the surrounding areas. I am a full time fisherman and see a lot of what goes
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On June 20th several GRN members gathered at The Bridge Lounge to hear writer and adventure-seeker Andy Borbely speak about his 2005 canoeing expedition down the Mississippi River with friend Justin Hoest. An idea that was spontaneously thought up while listening to Johnny Cash’s “Big River” during a road trip gained traction when Hoest sent
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On April 20, 2011, the British Petroleum (BP) drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. For the next 87 days, BP’s Macondo well spewed 172 million barrels of toxic hydrocarbons into the waters of the Gulf, devastating a vast ecosystem and endangering an entire way of life for residents of the Gulf
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The first phase of the “Environmental Trial of the Century” ended this week after BP lawyers finished presenting its defense. The end of the first phase came nearly three years to the day that the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing eleven men and spilling over 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. U.S.
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