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Corps meeting today in eastern N.O.
The Times-Picayune ^ | 12/11/2007 | From staff reports

Posted on 12/11/2007 1:25:19 PM PST by Wicket

The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public comments this evening on environmental justice issues related to the agency's efforts to improve the New Orleans-area levee system to a 100-year level of protection. . . . The meeting will focus on potential effects that construction could have on racial minority and low-income populations.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: barfer; environment; thepoor
Environmental justice???
1 posted on 12/11/2007 1:25:21 PM PST by Wicket
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To: Wicket
"will focus on potential effects that construction could have on racial minority and low-income populations"

Where is the equal protection concern for law-abiding, productive, tax-paying, responsible white folks in the area?

2 posted on 12/11/2007 1:31:28 PM PST by traditional1 (Thompson/Hunter '08 OR Hunter/Thompson '08)
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To: Wicket

They’re probably just there to plant mines in the levees.


3 posted on 12/11/2007 1:31:36 PM PST by BubbaBasher (WWW.TWFRED08.COM)
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