Last week, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries denied a permit for Comstock Resources, Inc, to withdraw fracking water from the Amite River. Scenic Rivers are Outstanding Natural Resource Waters of Louisiana, and cannot be degraded; their ecological values must be kept alive. These are our sacred rivers, whose wilderness values must remain unaltered, so …
Gulf Restoration Network requested a meeting with the Vicksburg District Corps staff to ask about the status of the WRDA Section 211 flood control (lake) project on the Pearl River. We wanted to discuss the project and ask questions about the process since a local sponsor, and not the Vicksburg Corps, is doing all the …
GRN meets with Vicksburg Corps on Jackson Ms Pearl River Lake Plan Read More »
Tell EPA: I’m For Clean Water!Yesterday at the Louisiana Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority Meeting, much of the meeting was focused on the Clean Water Rule that EPA and the Corps of Engineers have proposed. This rule is designed to clarify terms, specifically what constitutes a “Water of the United States,” that deserves Clean Water …
LA Coastal Authority Sends Mixed Messages About Protecting Wetlands Read More »
Louisiana’s scenic rivers are facing a new threat. Companies including Comstock Energy, LLC, have applied to extract water from the Amite River, threatening the river and those that depend on it by increasing pollution and lowering the flow.Tell the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) to defend our scenic rivers!Comstock wants to alter our …
Across the nation, water and wetlands are threatened by pollution and destruction, and no one is more impacted by this than Gulf Coast residents. We swim in waters that begin as small streams, we drink water from rivers that flow from many miles away, we cast for fish that are spawned in the wetlands and …
The Greater Jackson Partnership gave an update on its Vision 2022 plan on Thursday September 25th. Vision 2022 was begun in 2012 as a 10 year master plan for development in downtown Jackson. Its centerpiece is a new lake along the urban reach of the Pearl River, but there are parts of the plan that …
Jackson, MS Pearl River Lake Project from Vision 2022 Update Read More »
Step One: Coal Export Terminals place materials in the river. The black smear in the brown water on the riverbank is a pile of coal and petroleum coke from United Bulk: The black in the middle of the brown river is a pile of spilled material that has accumulated, despite the fact that United Bulk …
WATCH how coal and petroleum coke wind up in a restoration project Read More »
Robert Bowcock visited Louisiana and Mississippi on September 9-10th doing investigations into water pollution problems. Bowcock’s consulting business, Integrated Resource Management, deals with the safety and security of drinking water systems. His investigations have supported some of Erin Brockovich’s environmental defense work. On he was in St. John Parish, upriver from New Orleans. The Parish …
Investigator Bowcock Visits Laurel, MS Injection Well Site and Officials Read More »
An oilfield waste injection well has been operating for 18 years with minimal oversight in a suburban neighborhood in Laurel, Mississippi. Since 1996 this disposal well has allowed salt water, produced during drilling operations, combined with oil and drilling fluids to be injected into the earth 4020 feet down a “dry hole” oil well from …
Injection Well Lawsuit in Laurel, MS Reveals Damage from Oilfield Waste Disposal Read More »
This articles is excerpted from Gulf Currents, GRN’s quarterly newsletter. To read the rest of the Summer 2014 edition of Gulf Currents, click here.Weeki Wachee Headspring. Photo credit: CathyHarrelson.In spite of strong organizing by citizens and environmental groups and unanimous support in the State Senate, the Florida Springs and Aquifer Protection Act failed to pass …