Why frack in our cleanest waters and wetlands? Helis Oil and Gas and Ed Poitevent, a private landowner, want to make a buck off of St. Tammany Parish, and they are endangering our waterways, economy and health in the process.The law is clear: Helis must avoid destroying wetlands when they can. But they’re planning to […]
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Why Frack Our Cleanest Water and Wetlands?Helis Oil and Gas and Ed Poitevent want to make a buck off the waters of St Tammany Parish, without environmental review, without regard to the effects of the Southern Hills aquifer, without care for Cane Bayou and Bayou LaCombe nor the wildlife that depend on St Tammany’s coastal
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RE: “Poll: Most Louisianians see climate change as serious problem” And Louisiana’s best science agrees with them. The 2012 Master Plan is head-and-shoulders the best science and engineering effort to keep Louisiana afloat, and perhaps one of the more honest climate adaption strategies around the world. And that plan outlines what is at stake: from
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Backfilling unused canals can restore flows and marsh without impeding access–all it takes is the oil industry paying back a small part of its debt to our coast. While the state is focused on larger-scale projects, like restoring the river and dredged marsh creation, there are tens of thousands of acres of restoration in the
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This blog is re-posted from Publiclab.org.###What I want to doMake a kite map of city park after a winter rainstorm, to capture where the water sits on the site where city park installed a stormwater wetland. I want to check where the water sits, whether it is drained away from the cycletrack and the roadway,
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The wind is a constant factor in coastal life, but how often can we harvest it for science?The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science has aided GRN and others with low-cost aerial monitoring of pollution, but their tools and method can also be used to map the shifting sands beneath our feet.Read more at
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The more we know, the worse it seems. And the stranger our memories become. BP must be held accountable for their damages. We knew it was bad. As we surveyed Barataria Bay, one of the most heavily impacted areas by BP, we at GRN saw stranded and dead dolphins throughout 2010 and 2011. Response data
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Shell Oil is proposing yet another 200 mile pipeline across more than 20 rivers in Louisiana, including the entire Atchafalaya Basin, blocking more than 80 bayous and coulees in the Basin, and directly impacting more than 700 acres of wetlands, including 200 acres of forest.Tell the Army Corps to Save Our Cypress and restore our
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“We have never had coal runoff get in the river from a hurricane. We have had a little get off their facilities, but not into the river, and they have always cleaned it up well” –Billy NungesserUnited Bulk hasn’t needed a hurricane to pollute our river.Each time we pass the United Bulk Facility, we find
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BP’s Thunder Hawk and Thunder Horse light up the planet with gigantic flare events.The image below is a composite image of night lights across the Gulf Coast. Can you find the flaring events?If Gas is too cheap at Henry Hub, BP just puts it into the atmosphere. Compare the light from BP’s platforms to say,
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