A couple of days ago, I was contacted by Caroline Douglas of the organization Southwings, a conservation and public benefit aviation non-profit that provides skilled pilots and aerial education to enhance conservation efforts across the Southeast. Caroline was offering to arrange a flyover for me to document a recent oil sighting near Venice, Louisiana. You […]
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For the 5th year in a row, GRN will be at Bonnaroo, collecting signatures to defend the Gulf Coast! In Planet-Roo, the non-profit section of the festival, we’ll also be asking for “oily” handprints to add to our “Congress, You’ve Got Oil on Your Hands” petition calling for congressional action in response to the BP
Yesterday, I took another Mississippi River Flood flyover. With me on board were Anna Hrybyk, Program Manager for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) and Robin Walker, a local photographer. Two cameras are always better than one! We embarked from Southern Seaplanes at about 8:30 AM and flew for about two and a half hours. You
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It starts with a little queasiness as the early storm predictions roll in, then a tinge of distracted apprehension when the Corps of Engineers give their update on the state of the ‘risk reduction system.’ Tax-free shopping for supplies on Memorial Day dries out my mouth a bit, but June 1st is when I really
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From Left to Right: Rachel Cohen, Steve Bradberry, Jeffrey Buchanan, Michele Roberts, Johanna Polsenberg, Vaness Hamilton, Casi Callaway, Cyn Sarthou, Terese Collins, Brenda Dardar Robichaux, Josh Pelletier, Angel TroungMay 23-24, thirteen Gulf residents descended upon Washington, DC to press national lawmakers to help restore and protect the Gulf of Mexico region in the aftermath of
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Even as the Senate grilled oil company CEO’s earlier this month about the uber-profitable industry’s $4 billion-a-year taxpayer subsidies, Obama promised to bring more oil and gas reserves online and the House quietly passed HR1231, a bill otherwise known as “Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act” .On May 12th, the House passed HR1231 to literally
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Oil, spattered across our Front Lines of Defense Cathy Norman, Secretary Treasurer of the Edward Wisner Donation, speaks to me about the presence and persistence of oil on Fourchon Beach and throughout the Wisner donation. The sandstone Cathy holds are mottled with brown, degraded oil from the BP disaster.On Tuesday Jonathan and I traveled to
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According to a stakeholders call today with the Corps, the Mississippi has crested in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Likewise, the River crested today in Vicksburg, MS and will crest tomorrow at Red River Landing, which is between the Old River Control Structure and the Morganza Floodway. Hopefully the River will start going down in
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Yesterday, I hopped in a seaplane at Southern Seaplanes in Belle Chase and flew north along the Mississippi River. On board with me on this Josephine Billups (of the band Sassafrass) sponsored flight was Matt Rota, GRN’s Science and Water Policy Director, and Randy Perez, a videographer from New Orleans who has accompanied me on
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As the pictures below will clearly show, it was a very sad day yesterday on the Louisiana coast. Myself, a coworker, Scott Eustis, and videographer, Randy Perez, were accompanied by Forrest Travirca and Cathy Norman of the Edward Wisner Donation Land Trust to an area of privately owned land adjacent to Fourchon Beach and Elmer’s
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