Louisiana cancels $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by oil spill settlement

[In It to Win It]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana on Thursday canceled a $3 billion repair of disappearing Gulf coastline, funded by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement, scrapping what conservationists called an urgent response to climate change but Gov. Jeff Landry viewed as a threat to the state’s way of life.

Despite years of studies and reviews, the project at the center of Louisiana's coastal protection plans grew increasingly imperiled after Landry, a Republican, took office last year. Its collapse means that the state could lose out on more than $1.5 billion in unspent funds and may even have to repay the $618 million it already used to begin building.

The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group, a mix of federal agencies overseeing the settlement funds, said that "unused project funds will be available for future Deepwater Horizon restoration activities” but would require review and approval.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/louisiana-cancels-3b-repair-coastal-195707609.html

[edhopper]

1. They want to die

[hatrack]

2. Good luck preserving your state's "way of life" when there's no state left . . .

OTOH, $3 billion buys lots of 10 Commandments monuments and bibles and gunz.

[Demovictory9]

6. yep

[BOSSHOG]

3. Jeff Landry was and is a freaking idiot.

IOW, a shoo in at election time in Louisiana. I dearly love Louisiana. A treasure in so many ways but it needs a lot of TLC by people who could not possibly care less.

[Deuxcents]

4. There are many people whose way of life is in the fisheries, shrimpers, and need the coast to heal

Which doesn’t happen in a day but lifetimes and this is a real setback for their coastal health

[rickyhall]

5. We have some seriously stupid governors in this country. Blazing Saddles governors.

[enid602]

7. Incentive

Maybe he can instead use the $3B settlement to create incentives to attract more petro chemical plants to Cancer Alley.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Oh boy more flooding

Fucking idiots.