Never ceases to amaze me how Leftist bureaucrats can continually manufacture new excuses to spend hundreds of billions of Federal Dollars on nonsense.
What does Mother Nature have to say on this?
Put it on a bunch of Louisiana school buses and move it to say......... Houston....those people miss their river.
You mean we can finally get done with the cue ball nagin??? and we can do away with William Jefferson (D) LA.? and we can do away with the school buses that were left there, that could have saved alot of lives???
WOW, I'm for moving the mighty Mississippi....right over LA.
This move is likely seen as core to the way they would intend to strengthen such power into the next several decades--by using "other people's money", that is, federal taxpayers' money.
HF
I saw the banker in charge of this effort on c-span. He was hostile in threatening the feds. Seemed to me that he would be better off to start raising money and enlisting the support of enviornmentalists.
Looks like a job for Karl Rove's terrain redesign machine.
I am all for this and something needs to be done fast. Thankfully with the increase in offshore revenues much of those funds can go this project. It is sad because of a paperwork snafu in the Clinton years Chevron will not have to to pay royalties on that new huge field.
I fear though all we will get is talk from both the State and Federal level because no one is going to want to make the very unpopular choices
For those that want to see a awesome link section that talks about this National problem and possible solutions
www.conservativecajun.blogspot.com/
"certain. One possible location is near Davant, about 45 miles southeast of New Orleans. Another is near Empire, further down the river, where the levees could be opened. In either case the river flow into wet and marshy areas to the west. Another way would have to be found — or constructed — for ships to reach the shipping lane, possibly something engineers call a slack-water channel"
THis makes sense to me. I mean if nothing is done that whole area will be under water in the future anyway. Venice is going to have to suck it up
It would be less expensive to move New Orleans north, out of the flood plain, restore the natural course of the Mississippi (get rid if the levees) where it will then rebuild the sandy marshlands (they act as a wind and water break from Hurricane-fed ocean surges); than it would be to continue to try to "protect" New Orleans.
If you additionally consider what may become of the current, and very natural, warming climate trend, the rise of the Gulf waters and the Mississippi delta just might eventually swamp any levee system there.
Maybe it is time for some radical ideas.
Completely at odds with
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706724/posts
Katrina, Rita Actually Helped Wetlands, Study Says
Why not both?
TT