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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2013 23:56:07 GMT
From what I hear it's still burning.....
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 29, 2014 16:50:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 18:59:44 GMT
Well, I wish I hadn't opened that link...
Something about this catastrophe is in the news every day in some shape or form.
Nothing ever positive.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 12:27:51 GMT
Well, it's been 5 years ago since this disaster occurred. I'd like to be able to say that things have gotten better, but, I can't. The environmental impact will be in evidence for years and years to come. Reports of tar balls still appear on the Gulf shoreline.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 12, 2016 16:12:35 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 21, 2018 0:15:28 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 7, 2021 5:10:28 GMT
A proposed $50 billion plan is meant to save coastal Louisiana and to provide more than 12,000 jobs.
Money for the project will come from penalties paid by BP for the damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil platform disaster in 2010, which killed 11 rig workers and spilled some 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
If the [Army Corps of Engineers] issues final permits ... [for the project known as the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion], a $1.4 billion structure will be dug into the western bank of the river below New Orleans. It will include gates that allow operators to control the flow of water and sediment from the mighty river into Barataria Bay...
By letting fresh water and sediment flow from the river into the depleted wetlands of Barataria Basin, the diversion will mimic the spring floods that were common before people built levees to contain the river — floods and sediment that built the Mississippi Delta in the first place. Without those regular deposits, the land has subsided. Further damage from activities like oil exploration cut channels into the delicate wetlands and let destructive salt water intrude into the delicate marshes; all that and rising sea levels have combined to cause the loss of some 2,000 square miles of land in the last 100 years.Full article here. Salt marshes in the Barataria Bay area of the Mississippi River delta in Louisiana. Credit...Gerrit Vyn/Nature Picture Library, via Minden Pictures
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