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|"Final Crisis: Revelations" #1 on sale in August
Grant Morrison. Geoff Johns. Greg Rucka.
Forged in friendship during 52 weeks of â52,â the trinity of superstar writers is the father, the son and the holy Spectre of DC Comicsâ 2008 mega event âFinal Crisis.â
CBR News spoke with Greg Rucka (âThe Question: The Five Books of Bloodâ) about his upcoming five-issue, Philip Tan-illustrated tie-in miniseries, âFinal Crisis: Revelations,â as we finish off a four-day look at the space and time-spanning story that kicked off May 28 with Grant Morrisonâs âFinal Crisisâ #1.
ââRevelationsâ actually started out as something very different,â Rucka told CBR News. âIt started out as Grant [Morrison] wanting Geoff [Johns] and I writing the companion minis to âFinal Crisis.â And as it was initially proposed, Geoff was going to do âLegion of Three Worldsâ and I would do, as it was being called in-house, âStreet Crisis,â which would show the effect of âFinal Crisisâ on a ground level.
âAfter some discussion, I went back to [DCU Executive Editor] Dan DiDio and said thatâs not going to work,â Rucka continued. âThatâs a single issue but itâs not a plot. So we had been talking about wanting to use The Question and putting her opposite The Spectre and the more we talked about that the more we came around to the fact that you canât really have a âCrisisâ in the DC Universe without The Spectre playing a fairly substantial part and the more we talked about that, the more we realized ever since âInfinite Crisis,â there really hasnât been any development in what The Spectre had become now that [murdered Gotham City cop] Crispus Allen was hosting him. And the more we talked about that, we realized thatâs the centerpiece of the mini. Now you have a story. This will allow us to talk about the character and fill in those blanks that have yet to be addressed.â
|Crispus Allen was murdered in the pages of "Gotham Central" - hardcover collection on sale in September
In speaking of the relationship between Crispus Allen and The Spectre, Rucka explained, âThere is this prevailing theory that one is the host for the other, but once they are joined they are the same. And we are not talking about a split personality. Thatâs certainly not my approach to writing him. The Spectre is Crispus Allen and Crispus Allen is a dead guy who is made host to the angel of vengeance. His job is to kick ass on Godâs behalf. But only when God says so. He is sort of Godâs pit bull.â
Rucka actually created the character of Gotham City Police Department Detective Allen with artist Shawn Martinbrough during his run on âDetective Comicsâ in the early 2000s. Allenâs first appearance was in issue #742, and the character was later featured as a main character in Ruckaâs Eisner Award-winning series âGotham Central.â
One of the things that has been pretty clear about Crispus Allen since he became host to The Spectre in âInfinite Crisisâ is that while he may hold the powers of The Spectre, Allen himself is in crisis. âThatâs part of the fun,â said Rucka. âAnd that gives us a lot of room to move. The last we saw of him, really significantly, where any element of the character was at work, was in [âInfinite Crisis Aftermath: The Spectreâ] and, it ends with him killing his son. So how can you not pick up that ball and run with it? You know what I mean?â
Rucka said the best way to explain the starting point of âFinal Crisis: Revelationsâ is to imagine a guy who has taken a job and is working for a boss he hates. âThatâs the best way to look at it,â said the writer . â[Cirspus] hates God. The first thing God had him do when he took the gig was kill his son.â
Indeed, thatâs a bad first day at the office.
|Crispus Allen became The Spectre in "Infinite Crisis," softcover on sale now
âI would say so,â quipped Rucka. âThat kind of puts you in a bad place. And from there, you are impaired.â
Rucka said itâs hard to explain The Spectreâs role in the DCU because âthe second you start entertaining stories with The Spectre, you start talking about religion in the DCU.â For obvious reasons, religion is something writers have handled with a very light touch over the years. Interestingly, theologian and comics scribe John Ostrander wrote a Spectre series for more than sixty issues. âYou look at some of the classic Spectre stuff and you look what Ostrander did in particular, and things like that and what you end up with are stories that are kind of like DC does EC Comics! And yet at the same time, The Spectre is always reared up as this all-powerful, all-mighty force that is sometimes dropped into the middle of a story and can literally look at somebody and say, âYou are a soap bubbleâ and pop, you are.
âIt becomes tricky to negotiate if you start inviting real religion into it and weâre not going to do that,â Rucka added. âBut the sort of unspoken rule in the DCU is that the Judeo-Christian God sits above all others. And then below that you can have your New Gods and your Greek gods and whoever else you want.â
While The Spectre is not one of DCâs top five or even top ten known entities, Rucka said the character is strong enough to hold his own and support a solo miniseries. âItâs not a question of marquee, itâs a question of -- like all the stuff I have done -- character,â stated Rucka. âAnd since I knew Cris as a character and I felt there was some pretty important stuff that needed to be discussed about the character and some things that I wanted to do with him coming out of âInfinite Crisisâ that I couldnât do because I on â52,â this was an opportunity to do that.â
|Following "Infinite Crisis," the new Spectre appeared primarily in "Infinite Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre" and "The Spectre: Tales of the Unexpected," both on sale now
Rucka believes the big problem in telling a story like âFinal Crisis: Revelations,â featuring The Spectre as the protagonist, is that itâs like trying to tell a good Superman story. âYouâve got to come up with a conflict that isnât a conflict that can simply be solved by the judicious application of superpowers,â explained Rucka. âThere are limits to The Spectreâs power because The Spectreâs power is bestowed by The Almighty. And The Almightyâs plan is unknowable. The reasons behind it are not to be known. Even the agents of The Almighty donât get to be privy, so The Spectre starts out being pretty frustrated.
âThe other thing is for the longest time The Spectre has existed in a vacuum. When Jim Corrigan was The Spectre, those stories allowed Corrigan to interact with people and then he would become The Spectre and the further you get away from that, the more trouble you get into.â
Jim Corrigan was a murdered police detective whom the Spectre inhabited for most of the characterâs history, going back to the Golden Age of superhero comics. A second Jim Corrigan, a corrupt cop featured in âGotham Central,â killed Crispus Allen and was later killed himself by Allenâs son, Mal. In turn, Allen had to kill Mal on Godâs order. Another major player in storyline was Renee Montoya, who was once Allenâs partner at the Gotham City Police Department. Montoya became the new Question in the pages of â52.â
âOne of the things that weâve got here is as often as it is Crispus interacting with Renee, we also have The Spectre interacting with other people,â Rucka continued. âThatâs the other thing that will give this series legs.â
|Classic Spectre tales are available in "The Golden Age Spectre Archives" and "Wrath of The Spectre"
Rucka confirmed both The Spectre and The Question figure into Morrisonâs âFinal Crisisâ but couldnât share many details on that front. The Question was already seen in #1. âThe Question is actually very prominent in âFinal Crisis.â Grantâs using her pretty extensively,â Rucka teased. âGeoff [Johns] and I have talked about how to use The Spectre following this, There are some plans in development. I think both The Question and The Spectre come out of all the âFinal Crisisâ stuff in very strong position as far as character visibility goes.â
And while he confirmed no specific plans, Rucka said an ongoing series featuring The Spectre could be done. âItâs one thing to show The Spectre with the giant pinking shears and itâs another to talk about the conflict of the guy who is hosting that power,â said Rucka. âIf you were going to do an ongoing series with him then that would have to be at issue of whatâs going on.â
The 40-page âFinal Crisis: Revelationsâ #1, with art by new DC exclusive Philip Tan, is scheduled to go on sale August 13.
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MORETOWN A sheriff was placed at Harwood Union Middle and High School on Wednesday because a restraining order was issued against a former student, said the chairman of the schools board, Chris Koliba.
While the precaution came soon after 20 elementary students and six adults were killed Dec. 14 in a school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Harwood officials said around half a dozen restraining orders are obtained in the school district as a whole every school year.
The schools administration briefed board members about the situation on Dec. 19 and again Wednesday during the regular board meeting, Koliba said Thursday.
An email was sent to the school community informing parents, staff and faculty of the sheriffs presence.
Koliba said Wednesdays school board briefing was for information sharing, advice seeking, and pulse taking of community sentiment on how to best handle these kinds of situations.
We got into a conversation: In this post-Newtown era, whats the new normal? Koliba said.
Superintendent Brigid Scheffert said the details of the restraining order could not be released.
A restraining order had been issued, and the person in question was later confirmed as being located out of state, Scheffert said. When Scheffert verified that information Wednesday, she said, she decided the sheriff was no longer needed.
On Dec. 19 and again Wednesday, the board went into executive session, both times for a student disciplinary matter. Koliba said both discussions were related to the same incident. The first meeting was to address when the incident first came to light, he said.
Koliba said the executive session was the beginning of a discussion the board plans to address during regular session.
Board member Dale Smeltzer said she thought the email to the community was a means of increasing communication in the wake of the Newtown tragedy.
Last year, a similar incident occurred in the district when a sheriffs department employee was in place for three to five days because a parent was issued a restraining order for making threats, said Scheffert.
The sheriffs office was involved until court proceedings could occur and safety could be ensured, Scheffert said.
Its not unusual to have a sheriff detail, especially at a high school, at the point you have what looks like a volatile situation in someones family or outside in the community, Scheffert said.
In the wake of Newtown, school districts across Vermont and the nation have been re-examining security measures and policies to ensure students and school employees are protected.
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When âNew X-Forceâ begins in October, the X-Men must stop a secret society from turning the Heroic Age of the Marvel Universe into something more Apocalyptic. CBR News spoke with writer Rick Remender about the new series.
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Title:Overview of cases before the CJEU on European Consumer Contract Law (2009-2013) : Part I Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; KAS, BetülDate:2014Citation:European review of contract law, 2014, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1–63Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:During the last five years the CJEU had to decide on more than 50 preliminary references in the area of consumer contract law. As a consequence there are far more than 100 decisions available which represent the increasingly ...
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The University of Michigan is the first university to expand its book scanning agreement with Google Inc., paving the way for greater public access to electronic copies of works in the university's libraries.
It was made possible because of Google's pending legal settlement with a broad class of authors and publishers.
Google has already digitized 3 million of the works at the U-M libraries, with roughly 5 million to go.
"This agreement and this settlement will mean that anybody in the
country can look at (the U-M collections) from far away," said Paul
Courant, U-M librarian and dean of libraries.
As outlined in the original agreement, any computer user will be
able go to Google.com to read entire texts of books not covered by
copyright. But now access to books under copyright will be expanded.
Instead of being able to read only a few lines of text in books
under copyright, as originally provided, computer users will be able to
read 20 percent of the books in what Google calls a free preview.
Computer users will be able to search the text by keyword to identify
relevant passages. Computer users can then choose to buy an electronic
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Google will also sell libraries and other educational institutions
subscriptions to the digitized works. Subscribing libraries will
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A portion of the revenues Google receives will be given to the authors and publishers.
"Our agreement with authors and publishers will allow anyone in the
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U-M will not receive any money, but its students will be able to read
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Courant said he expects it will take Google one to two years to make its new products available.
In 2004, Google announced that it would digitize works at libraries,
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Things have gotten increasingly hilarious around my house, thanks to the wealth of advance advertising for Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille, every bit of which drives my fella Jake eloquently insane.
The quote in the subject line was his first pronouncement on the forthcoming CGI blockbuster, which tells a family-friendly story of a rat that dreams of becoming a great chef. "Teaching children that rats are adorable, misunderstood creatures can bring nothing but good," says Jake, whose vermin feelings were irreparably colored by two years in New York City, where rats rule, and regularly bite the faces of babies. "Also, connecting rats to delicious food is genius. It's important that kids know that rats love human food, and have great taste. Whatever kids see a rat eating, they should eat it, too."
I doubt this is the moral Disney/Pixar's going for, but the fact that Ratatouille might serve as genius propoganda in the ongoing war between man and vermin is now impossible for me to ignore…


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"The Possibility of Evil" (Shirley Jackson) Response Package
1. Describe the setting.
In a town on main street, with soda shops, post office, many houses, during the summer. It probably took place in the 50s.
2. Describe/discuss the character of Miss Adela Strangeworth.
Adela Strangeworth is an old lady in this story that is self centered. She is proud of herself because of her families history. She thinks that it is her responsibility to make the town a better place. With the mails she sent, she caused many people problems, when she was trying to help them.
3. How long has Miss Strangeworth lived in her town? Discuss her ties to the town and infer how this makes her feel about her position there.
Miss Strangeworth, aged 71 has lived in her town for 71 years, while her family has been there for over 100 years. She feels that she controls this town occasionally and that it is hers. Everyone in the town admires her because she always seems like a very nice lady.
4. Discuss how the town's visitors respond to Miss Strangeworth's roses. Explain how she responds.
Because of the prettiness, and legacy of the roses, the visitors always tend to want to take one of the roses. Miss Strangeworth responds by not giving any of them away.
5. Explain how the people in town react and respond to Miss Strangeworth. What do you think their impression of her is?
The people in the town are very nice to Miss Strangeworth. Strangeworth knew everyone in the town, and people often greet her while she wanders the streets. Everyone thinks that she is a nice, and wonderful old lady that can be a role model to the town.
6. Discuss the relationship between Tommy Lewis and Miss Strangeworth and explain how that relationship has changed over the years. Infer what might have been the basis of the relationship. Then explain how and why it changed.
Both of there families have been in town for a very long time. They grew up together, and when Lewis left high school, Strangeworth stopped calling him Tommy, and started calling him Mr. Lewis. They were very good friends that went on dances, basketball games, and picnics together but this changed because of Mr. Lewis decision to work in a grocery store after high school, and Strangeworth living alone in a house on Pleasant Street.
7. Describe Ms. Harper as she reaches for her pocketbook. Explain what Mrs. Strangeworth thinks about Martha's behavior.
Mrs. Harper's hand was shaking when she was reaching for her pocketbook. She reached for it right after she ran out of sugar for cake frosting. Her hand was probably shaking because she has not enough money to buy more, and Miss Strangeworth thought that Mrs. Harper has not been taken proper care of herself, and could use a strong tonic.
8. Mrs. Strangeworth meets Helen Crane, the mother of a six month old infant, and Miss Chandler, the librarian. Discuss her interactions with them and her observations about them.
Adela Strangeworth thought that the baby is going to grow up expecting luxery in her whole life. Adela thought that the baby will have a lot of problems. Helen Crane thought that the baby was developing slow, when Strangeworth said that all babies grow at different rates, when she really thinks that the baby is dumb. When she met the librarian, she did not like her because she didn't tidy up her hair a lot, and she hated sloppiness.
9. There is a revealing statement (p. 215) about how the town views Miss Strangeworth. Explain what that is and why.
The statement on page 215 that says "But the town was proud of Miss Strangeworth and her roses and her house" revealed how the town viewed her. This was because she kept her family history running, with her old house and roses. Many people has grown up together with Adela Strangeworth.
10. Explain the difference between the papers Miss Strangeworth uses to write letters. discuss the other ways in which these letters differ.
The differences in the papers of Miss Strangeworth was that they were all different colors. Adela Strangeworth printed her letters in a childish block print. These letters were different from other letters because they end up causing problems for the people that receive them.
11. Discuss the purpose of Miss Strangeworth's letters.
The purpose of the letters were to try to fix peoples problems in the town. The letters sent were all on what Miss Strangeworth believes is good.
12. Why does Miss Strangeworth lie about the goings on in her town?
Miss Strangeworth lies about the goings in her town because she wanted to make her town better by telling people lies.
13. Explain what Miss Strangeworth sees as her role in the community.
Miss Strangeworth thinks that she is the "Watcher" of the community. This means that she is the one that fixes problems, and try to improve something.
14. After finishing the letters, Miss Strangeworth sets down to tea. discuss the irony of her thoughts after writing the letters. Explain Miss Strangeworth's idea of "liv(ing) graciously" (218). Then, prove that she is not.
Miss Strangeworth thought that the letters she sent were going to help people, but ended up causing all the problems. Strangeworths idea of living graciously was that everything had to be perfect, live in luxery, and live in peace. She is not living graciously because she causes many problems for the people she sent mail to. She also had problems with her own, being a bit too obsessed with her family history, and being self centered.
15. Explain why Miss Strangeworth never suspects the children of laughing or mocking. What does this prove about her opinion of herself.
Miss Strangeworth never suspects the children laughing about her because everyone is very respective, and kind to her when they see her walk down the streets. This proves that she is too narcissistic.
16. Miss Strangeworth overhears a conversation between Dave Harris and Linda Stewart. Discuss the content of the conversation and explain Miss Strangeworth's role in it.
Miss Strangeworth overhears a conversation between Dave Harris, and Linda which seems to her that Dave has done something terribly bad to Linda, and could not go near her house anymore. Miss Strangeworth quickly wrote a letter to try to fix the problem.
17. Miss Strangeworth thinks that there is "so much evil in people. Even in a charming little town like this one" (220). Explain what the evil is.
The evil was the bad thoughts the people in the town had. Strangeworth overhearing the conversation between Linda, and Dave Harris made her think that Dave Harris was thinking of bad thoughts, and has done something very wrong.
18. Explain how the townspeople discover Miss Strangeworth's role in the letters being sent to citizens. How do they get Miss Strangeworth back?
The townspeople discovered that Miss Strangeworth was the one that sent the evil letters because of Dave Harris, and Linda Stewart watching Miss Strangeworth accidently drop a letter to Don Crane. They helped her deliver it, and they would tell Don Crane that the letter was from Miss Strangeworth. The townspeople get Miss Strangeworth back from destroying her roses.
19. Examine the last sentence of the story. How does Miss Strangeworth view her punishment? How does she view what she has done? Explain the irony of this.
Miss Strangeworth viewed her punishment as too much, and still thinks that everyone in the world was evil. She views what she has done as right, but thinks that the world is against her. The irony in this is that she actually is very wrong and the letters were causing all the problems.
20. Draw a detailed map, from an overhead perspective, of the town illustrated in the story.
The name of the town.
Main Street - the main street
The Grocery on main street
Pleasant St.
Miss Strangeworth's House- on pleasant st
Shanties on the low road- shacks where poor people live in
Park- in front of post office
Post Office
Lumber Mill
High School
Library- down main street
Soda Shop
Newspaper Shop
The Stewart House
City Hall
The Police Station
The Fire Hall
The map needs to make sense according to the description given in the story.
The map should be neat with all the landmarks clearly labeled.
The map should be visually interesting.


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, Volume 90, Supplement 4, pp 447-460
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Adam Smith's Vision of the Ethical Manager
- George BraguesAffiliated withUniversity of Guelph-Humber Email author
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Smith's famous invocation of the invisible hand – according to which self-interest promotes the greater good – has popularly been seen as a fundamental challenge to business ethics, a field committed to the opposite premise that the public interest cannot be advanced unless economic egoism is restrained by a more socially conscious mindset, one that takes into account the legitimate needs of stakeholders and the reciprocity inherent in networked relationships. Adam Smith has been brought into the discipline to show that his authority cannot be summoned to fully support the free market sceptics of business ethics. Little has been done, however, to illustrate that Smith's moral writings actually contain the fundamentals of a business ethics teaching for managers who necessarily work within a variety of networks. This article analyses his moral thought to infer a Smithean framework of business ethics for managers. Smith believes that self-interest should be subordinated to moral imperatives, even in the business world. However, Smith rejects the principles of corporate social responsibility on the argument that benevolent impulses cannot be expected to prevail in the commercial arena. Instead of consciously trying to advance the social good, Smith's ideal manager will endeavour to personally live up to the standards enforced by an impartial spectator of his conduct, a theoretical entity reflecting the ethical requirements posed by the manager's social networks and stakeholder relationships. While this internalized onlooker expects a limited degree of benevolence, the overriding demand is for the manager to abide by the dictums of justice and prudence.
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- Title
- Adam Smith's Vision of the Ethical Manager
- Journal
Journal of Business Ethics
Volume 90, Issue 4 Supplement, pp 447-460
- Cover Date
- 2009-12
- 10.1007/s10551-010-0600-4
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- 0167-4544
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- 1573-0697
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- George Bragues (1)
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- 1. University of Guelph-Humber, 207 Humber College Blvd., Toronto, ON, M9W 5L7, Canada


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A major expansion is underway at disney's magic kingdom in central Florida.
The new Fantasyland expansion at Magic Kingdom.
It doesn't open until December 6th, but here's a sneak preview of areas like Gaston's Village, Journey Of The Little Mermaid, and the Be Our Guest Restaurant.
The new fantasy land nearly doubles the size of this portion of the park from 11-to-21-acres, marking the largest expansion in magic kingdom's 41 year history.
The project has created 15-hundred jobs.
700 of them are in construction.
The Fantasyland expansion cost 425-million-dollars.


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I am having a weird problem that I hope I am going to describe properly. It all happened when I decided to update my Windows 7 Home.
The problem is that, at reboot right after the Windows update, I receive the dreaded "missing or corrupted file". The file we are talking about is cng.sys.
I am a linux user, so the first thing I did was to open the NTFS partition and check if the file was there. It was not. Then I went through the Windows Recovery standard procedure.
- Recovery Console, letting it fix the problem. It couldn't.
- Recovery Console with command prompt, "sfc /scannow /offbootdir= /winbootdir=", but it told me that there was a pending update and it couldn't.
- Renaming of the pending.xml in pending.bak and sfc again. It couldn't fix the files even if it could find problems.
At this point, I discovered the winsxs folder, with all the updates in it. I checked in pending.xml and saw that cng.sys was actually scheduled for deleting and replacing ( and tags). I tried to delete the pending.xml section where it was referencing cng.sys. It didn't work. I then went into the update folder to see if the new cng.sys was there.
Well...it looks like there are many folder with the same name and different creation date containing that file. The last (date-wise) contains cng.sys...but it is 0 Kb !!! This is actually not linked to the fact that the file in my Windows/System32/drivers is not there, but I decided to take a old cng.sys file from the old updates and copy it.
The result was the error 0xc0000020 AKA "The verification of a KnownDll failed....".
I think I have two ways to solve without reinstalling:
- Override the check for the KnownDll(s). Is it even what it does?
- Revert the update?
All of it has to be doable within Recovery Console. I think I have seen somewhere a command line call to some Windows utility for reverting the updates...but I can't find it anymore...
Thank you very much! Kap
UPDATE3: I am still trying to make it work...I have a running linux and this is not really urgent for now...here is the list of files I am missing (they are 0 byte)...do you guys have any clue on how I can get them?
By the way, the linux command I ran is:
find . -name '*' -type f -size 0 > log.txt


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Archive for Mississippi River Gulf Outlet
MRGO Must Go Coalition Applauds $3 Billion Court Decision Moving Critical Restoration ForwardSeptember 2, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in coastal restoration, Media Resources, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet
For Immediate Release:
John Lopez, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, 504-421-7348, firstname.lastname@example.com
Samantha Carter, National Wildlife Federation, 504-264-6831, firstname.lastname@example.com
MRGO Must Go Coalition Applauds $3 Billion Court Decision Moving Critical Restoration Forward
10 years after Katrina, critical ecosystem and storm buffer still awaits restoration
(NEW ORLEANS – September 2, 2015) In a landmark decision last week, U.S. District Court Judge Lance Africk of the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled in favor of the State of Louisiana, finding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) must pay the full $3 billion cost of restoring wetlands damaged by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO). The MRGO Must Go Coalition – a group of 17 conservation and community organizations that successfully advocated for the shipping channel's closure in 2009 –released the following statement:
"This ruling confirms that the Corps must pay for fixing the damage caused by the construction and mismanagement of the MRGO. Restoring the wetlands lost to the MRGO is critical to providing meaningful storm protection to the Greater New Orleans Region. We now call on Congress to fulfill its promise and fund this vitally important restoration work. The risks to public safety are far too grave to allow further delay.
"In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, in 2007 Congress directed the Corps to close the MRGO and restore the lost wetlands. Almost a decade later, the Corps still has not scratched the surface on MRGO restoration. We ask the Administration and Congress to work together with the Corps to pursue funding and to begin critical restoration work without further delay.
"Our Coalition hopes that the renewed national focus shed on southern Louisiana last week as part of Hurricane Katrina's 10-year commemorative activities is a signal of commitment from the federal government to restore Louisiana's wetlands, including those directly bordering New Orleans that were so severely damaged by the MRGO. Ten years later, the catastrophic damage caused in part by the MRGO during Hurricane Katrina is still visible in neighborhoods, such as the Lower 9th Ward and across St. Bernard Parish.
"While this ruling clearly affirms full federal coverage of construction costs for restoration of this ecosystem, the gravity of this situation requires all involved agencies, including the State of Louisiana, to do everything in their power to advance and complete MRGO restoration projects to the fullest extent possible. This includes leveraging all funding streams as they become available.
"Every day, the MRGO ecosystem further deteriorates, increasing risks to communities throughout the Greater New Orleans area. Congress will have a major role to play by providing vital funding to bring MRGO ecosystem restoration to fruition. Our member organizations will continue to hold the Administration and our Congressional leaders accountable for action on restoring Louisiana's wetlands to better protect our communities. The communities and ecosystem torn apart by the MRGO have achieved a measure of justice with this recent ruling. We now look to leaders across government for action."
MRGO Must Go Coalition Members: American Rivers, Citizens Against Widening the Industrial Canal, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Environmental Defense Fund, Global Green-USA, Gulf Restoration Network, Holy Cross Neighborhood Association, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Levees.org, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Louisiana Wildlife Federation, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper, Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development, Mary Queen of Vietnam CDC, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club –Delta Chapter.No Comments
A Decade after Katrina, Groups Issue Recommendations for Community Protection, RestorationAugust 11, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in Community Resiliency, Media Resources, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, Reports, Restoration Projects, Science
Samantha Carter, National Wildlife Federation, 504.264.6831, email@example.com
Emily Guidry Schatzel, National Wildlife Federation, 225.253.9781, firstname.lastname@example.com
Raleigh Hoke, Gulf Restoration Network, 573.795.1916, email@example.com
A Resilient, Sustainable New Orleans
A Decade after Katrina, Groups Issue Recommendations for Community Protection, Restoration
(New Orleans – August 11, 2015) To commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a coalition of local community and conservation advocacy groups working to restore wetlands around the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) released a new report today.
The MRGO Must Go Coalition's report – titled "10th Anniversary of Katrina: Making New Orleans a Sustainable Delta City for the Next Century" – reflects on the progress that has been made since Hurricane Katrina and offers recommendations for ensuring the full protection and long-term resiliency of the Greater New Orleans communities, including implementing a "Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy" to protect coastal communities and wetland habitat.
In conjunction with the report release, members of the MRGO Must Go Coalition released the following statement today:
"Hurricane Katrina brought to the forefront the dire need to improve the resilience of New Orleans and its coastal neighbors. Katrina barreled onshore, churned through MRGO, and wreaked havoc in the Greater New Orleans area – showing us that levees alone are not enough to protect our people, natural resources and economy.
"Today, our coastline continues to disappear at the alarming rate of a football field every hour. As coastal wetlands wash away, with them go our natural defenses. Healthy wetlands and barrier islands serve as natural buffers, defending us against storms. Without slowing down this land loss crisis, we will continue to be vulnerable to storms, sea level rise and the growing risks of climate change.
"Ten years later, we have made great strides toward both restoration and protection. The closure of MRGO, the passing of the 2012 Louisiana Coastal Master Plan, the adoption of an Urban Water Plan and major upgrades to structural protections like levees and storm surge barriers are all true marks of progress for our region.
"However, the critical work to achieve protection and resiliency is really just beginning. We must continue to implement a Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy against storms – including community level planning and preparedness, urban storm water management, and protecting and restoring our coastal wetlands. We must build on the momentum of the last decade and continue to work to make New Orleans a model city for restoration, resiliency and sustainability."
The MRGO Must Go Coalition was founded in 2006 in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Coalition's mission is to ensure that the wetlands affected by the MRGO are carefully restored in a timely manner. As of August 2015, the MRGO Must Go Coalition included 17 local and national environmental, social justice and community organizations.
Since its inception, the Coalition has served as a liaison between the communities in Orleans and St. Bernard parishes and the US Army Corps of Engineers and other government agencies. The vast organizational resources and expertise provided by the member organizations allow the Coalition to make informed policy and scientific recommendations on the restoration of the ecosystem impacted by the MRGO. More information can be found at www.MRGOmustGO.org.
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Lower 9th Ward CSED Creates Environmental Learning & Research CenterJuly 15, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in Community Resiliency, Economics, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricanes, K10, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet
By Rachel Pickens, Esq., Resiliency Manager for Coastal Outreach & Community Awareness, Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development
"River to the Bayou" is a phrase often spoken by members the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED). When CSED was created in December 2006 by Pam Dashiell and Charles Allen, they envisioned rebuilding a more resilient neighborhood, one that stretches from the Mississippi River to Bayou Bienvenue. Learning from Katrina, they realized that resilience is more than strengthening the built environment – it also requires restoring and protecting the surrounding natural environment.
There is a need for more education and awareness of the importance of our coastal wetlands in communities like the Lower 9th Ward, which have and continue to be disproportionately affected by strong storms. Residents must look out to the coast protect what's in the neighborhood, and in the Lower 9th Ward, that means reconnecting people with the river and the bayou.
To address this need, CSED is creating a Wetland Education Center for residents to learn and interact with the water that surrounds the neighborhood. The site will run along Florida Ave, between Caffin Ave. and Lamanche St., across the street is the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle and platform. It is composed of four lots, which CSED purchased from the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority in 2013. The first phase of the project, an outdoor classroom, was constructed through a partnership with Tulane's School of Architecture during the 2015 spring semester.
The outdoor classroom includes a bioswale, where the sloped ground collects water that would otherwise cause flooding in the adjoining street. The goal is to retain 100% of all rainwater that falls on the site. Plants in the bioswale include spider lilies, thalias, irises, and soft rush, all plants that live well in wet and boggy soils.
The bioswale is divided into three zones, demarcated by oyster benches and oyster trails. The oysters serve as "check dams", which slow down the rainwater and prevent it from eroding the bioswale. The three zones are a visual timeline of the neighboring Bayou Bienvenue. The zone by the entrance, with the diversity of native plants, represents the past, before Bayou Bienvenue was destroyed by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO). The middle zone represents the current state of the bayou, sparse with only a few switch grasses. The third zone, representing the future, remains unfinished and will be a site for additional plantings.
The site also includes two shaded structures. The first, an outdoor classroom and a second, to be used for kayak storage. Both structures are composed of steel columns and shade cloth that provides 90% UV protection. In front of the structures are rows of silver shower Aztec and purple foundation grass which will help prevent erosion. The outdoor class room also includes an orchard now growing grapefruit, orange, satsuma, kumquat, fig and apple trees, along with a magnolia tree. Program coordinator, Kathy Muse started a butterfly garden in the back part of the site several years ago.
Phase 2 of Wetland Education Center will include the placement of a modular classroom. Designed by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, in partnership with the US Green Building Council (USGBC), the classroom features sustainable building materials and design elements. It was showcased at the 2014 USGBC Green Build, held in New Orleans. The classroom, which was donated to CSED, will be used as a K-12 environmental education center and research space.
While the Wetland Education Center is still a work in progress, it is currently open to the community and it will be a gathering and learning site for wetland awareness and water management. CSED believes that the first step towards resiliency is education and with the help of the Wetland Education Center, the Lower 9th Ward will become more resilient than ever.
CSED and other environmental groups will be holding a ribbon cutting ceremony for the first phase of the project on August 11th at 10am, following a press event at the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle Platform to discuss the state of our coast 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. For more information on this event, contact Samantha Carter at email@example.com.
For more information on CSED and how you can get involved, click here.1 Comment
10 years post Katrina – Where have you gone, Mr. Go?June 8, 2015 | Posted by lbourg in Hurricane Katrina, K10, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet
By Amanda Moore, Deputy Director, National Wildlife Federation, Restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition
Over the coming months as we approach the 10th anniversaries of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Restore the Mississippi River Delta Coalition will publish a series of blog posts that examine issues and topics relevant to these events, particularly as they relate to coastal restoration. Below, is an update on the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO).
Even before the storm, locals dubbed the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) a "hurricane surge super-highway". Since its construction in the 1950s, MRGO has impacted over 600,000 acres of coastal ecosystems surrounding the Greater New Orleans area and destroyed over 27,000 acres of wetlands that once served as important buffer from storm surge.
Indeed, ten years ago, MRGO lived up to its name and intensified the impact of Hurricane Katrina, creating a funnel that channeled its surge into the heart of communities. The result? Catastrophic destruction. After Katrina, it was clearer than ever that "Mr. Go" had to go.
Ten years later, we examine what has been accomplished, what work remains and how you can help.
- MRGO was finally closed: Following the storm, in 2006, renowned Louisiana coastal scientists released a report detailing the impacts of the channel and recommending its closure. In this same year the MRGO Must Go Coalition – a group of 17 local and national NGOs and community organizations – was formed to advocate for the closure of MRGO and restoration of the ecosystem. Congress passed the Water Resources and Development Act in 2007, mandating the channel be closed to navigation and the Army Corps develop a plan for ecosystem restoration. By 2009, the channel was closed with a rock dam near Bayou La Loutre and a $1.1 billion surge barrier across the MRGO funnel was officially completed in 2013. These closures have moderated surface water salinity, setting the stage for large-scale ecosystem restoration.
- Advocacy resulting in impact: The MRGO Must Go Coalition worked closely with the Corps to watchdog the drafting of their congressionally-mandated ecosystem restoration plan. The groups helped define the size of the impact area, brought community concerns to the forefront and helped prioritize projects. The coalition, whose positions are captured in these 2010 and 2011 papers, successfully extended public comment period timelines and increased the number of scheduled public hearings. A record 75,000 public comments were sent to the Army Corps in support of MRGO Must Go recommendations. Some of the coalition's recommendations were included in the Army Corps plan and others, notably, the Violet Diversion, were not.
- Restoration planning in earnest: In 2012, the final $3 billion Army Corps MRGO ecosystem restoration plan was approved and sent to the Assistant Secretary of the Army and a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement was completed. Assistant Secretary Darcy then recommended $1.325 billion of projects to Congress for appropriations. This was an unusual move and speaks to strong public activism on the issue, since the Corps has no local sponsor for the MRGO project due to a dispute with the State of Louisiana about who is responsible for paying for these restoration projects. Despite strong public support and heavy activism, no wetland restoration projects in the plan have been funded by the Army Corps to date. Around the same time in 2012, the State of Louisiana released their 2012 Coastal Master Plan, which recognized the impacts of MRGO and touted the benefits of proposed projects. The plan also reflected the important role played by the NGO community and included the vast majority of the MRGO Must Go Coalition's ecosystem restoration recommendations, including many of those in the Army Corps' plan.
What still needs to happen?
- Meaningful restoration: The MRGO projects in the 2012 Coastal Master Plan are proving critical guides for current restoration efforts in the New Orleans area. The Master Plan served as a blueprint for the CWPPRA program as two projects in the MRGO impacted area advanced to planning and design in 2014. It will also guide restoration work funded by the RESTORE Act, legislation that brings Clean Water Act penalties generated from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, which directly impacted the MRGO ecosystem area in 2010, to the Gulf coast for restoration. In 2014, the state put forward three key MRGO projects — Golden Triangle Marsh Creation, Biloxi Marsh Oyster Reef Restoration, and the Maurepas Diversion — as candidates for RESTORE Council The MRGO Must Go Coalition has met with RESTORE Council staff on several occasions to ensure they are fully aware of the need for restoration in the MRGO area. We will soon learn if these state-proposed projects were indeed chosen for funding.
So, what can you do?
- We've had many successes over the years with the closure of the channel and developing plans for restoration. However implementing these plans and restoring our critical coastal ecosystem remains. As the RESTORE Act process plays out, more funding will become available for restoration under direction of the RESTORE Council, State of Louisiana, and local parish governments. Those decision-makers will have the opportunity to ensure funds are used for restoration based on the best science and to make sure MRGO is addressed.
- It's up to everyone who cares about the future resilience of our region to speak up. The loss of wetlands caused by the channel leaves us without our historic, protective wetland buffer – a major line of defense against storm surges and an important factor in the effectiveness of our new $14 billion levee system. We can strategically restore our region's protective wetlands and sustain a healthy coastal ecosystem, but it's up to us to be our own champions for resilience and ensure the right projects are funded.
As we approach the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we have our work cut out for us to ensure that restoration, which is vitally important to our region's future, moves forward with urgency. Visit restorethebayou.org to learn how you can view the MRGO ecosystem impacts in person, learn more about ongoing ecosystem restoration and how you can get involved. Check out these albums from the MRGO Must Go Facebook page to see photos before and after the outlet's closure.No Comments
Golden Triangle Marsh Creation ProjectDecember 4, 2014 | Posted by lbourg in Community Resiliency, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, Restoration Projects, Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)
Louisiana recently proposed 5 projects to be funded by the initial round of funding from the RESTORE Act. The Golden Triangle Marsh Creation project, located in the Pontchartrain-Maurepas Basin, is designed to restore and protect wetland, fish, and wildlife habitat and help maintain landscape integrity and enhance community resilience. Here's what we wrote to the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, in support of the Golden Triangle Marsh Creation project:
Dear Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority members,
The undersigned groups appreciate this opportunity to share our collective supporting comments on the Golden Triangle Marsh Creation Project, submitted by the State of Louisiana for RESTORE Council consideration for the first Funded Priorities List of the RESTORE Pot 2 Council-selected projects.
We represent a coalition of conservation interests that have worked for decades to restore a healthy Gulf of Mexico ecosystem – starting with prompt restoration of the Mississippi River Delta – reconnecting the Mississippi River to its delta to protect communities, environment, and economies. Our groups continue to recommend urgent action on projects that will reduce land loss and restore wetlands in the Mississippi River Delta through comprehensive restoration actions that have the potential to provide multiple benefits and services over the long term to the entire Gulf of Mexico.
Most of the necessary restoration actions to be undertaken in Louisiana are already fully authorized under the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2007, were unanimously approved by the Louisiana legislature in the 2012 Coastal Master Plan, enjoy broad public support, and have been vetted by scientists and lawmakers for many years.
The Golden Triangle Marsh Creation Project, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet shipping channel and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, is in an area badly damaged by the saltwater intrusion and erosion that followed the dredging of the MRGO. The restored marsh will work with a nearby shoreline protection and marsh creation funded by the Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) to help buffer the newly constructed IHNC Surge Barrier, which is essential to the Greater New Orleans' flood protection, and will also provide important estuarine habitat for Lake Borgne and Mississippi Sound. The project has undergone technical analysis completed by the Corps and the State of Louisiana through the MRGO Ecosystem Restoration Plan authorized in WRDA 2007. The project has a signed Chief's Report and a completed Programmatic EIS.
The project is important not only for its obvious marsh creation benefits, but also for the citizens of the area who use the area located so close to the city of New Orleans. This project enjoys much public support and will increase the resilience of surrounding communities. We support the continued development of the Golden Triangle Marsh Creation Project and thank the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority for submitting it to the RESTORE Council.
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RESTORE Council Staff Brave the Cold to visit the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland TriangleNovember 20, 2014 | Posted by lbourg in Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet
By Samantha Carter, Restore the Mississippi River Delta, National Wildlife Federation
Wind. Rain. Record-setting lows. None of that stopped community members and conservation groups from welcoming members of a federal restoration council to a potential project site in the Lower Ninth Ward last Thursday morning. Members of the MRGO Must Go Coalition met with Executive Director Justin Ehrenwerth and Environmental Compliance Director John Ettinger of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council at the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle platform in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. Joined by representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers and the City of New Orleans Office of Coastal and Environmental Affairs, we had a robust discussion about the future of restoration in the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) ecosystem area.
The platform at the end of Caffin Avenue overlooks a 400 acre "ghost" swamp, a remnant of a dense freshwater cypress tupelo forest that existed in the city boundaries until roughly 50 years ago. Saltwater intrusion, caused by the construction of the MRGO in the 1960s, killed the cypress swamp in the Lower 9th Ward and destroyed tens of thousands of acres of wetlands that once protected the Greater New Orleans area. The MRGO channel and the loss of the surrounding wetlands are attributed to the catastrophic flooding that occurred in the Lower Ninth Ward and surrounding communities during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle provides a unique opportunity for highly visible coastal restoration work. Only five miles from the French Quarter, the platform already attracts Orleans Parish locals and tourists alike who can learn about the history of the swamp and see an example of the coastal land loss problems that extend throughout southern Louisiana. If the project is funded and constructed, reintroducing Mississippi River sediment and freshwater into the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle could return the conditions in the area to a place where cypress swamp can once again survive. In addition to restoring ecology and increasing quality of life for residents, restoration work in this location would allow the public easy access to see the State's Coastal Master Plan in action and potentially RESTORE Act restoration funds at work.
Discussions with the MRGO coalition and the RESTORE Council staff focused on this possibility and the process by which restoration projects are going to be chosen. The frigid weather kept the site visit short, but conversations continued in the warmth of the Greater Little Zion Baptist Church just a few minutes away. The RESTORE Council stressed the importance of coordination between different funding streams and leveraging completed work, such the programmatic EIS already done by the US Army Corps of Engineers for the MRGO ecosystem restoration area. MRGO Must Go coalition members shared their passion and vision for restoration and why they are engaged in the effort to see the MRGO ecosystem restored. There are already plans to revisit the platform together on a sunnier day and take a flight over the MRGO ecosystem.
Interested in visiting the platform and learning more? Check out http://www.restorethebayou.org/.
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Guest Post: Why New Orleanians should care about coastal restoration, by Lynda WoolardAugust 4, 2014 | Posted by Delta Dispatches in 2012 Coastal Master Plan, Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, People
Guest post by Lynda Woolard (New Orleans)
This post is the first in a two-part guest series.
"The simple truth is, if we fail to restore our coast, we fail to protect our city from future storms."
I was recently blessed with an opportunity to go along for a boat trip to see the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) and the Central Wetlands of southeast Louisiana with a delegation from the Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign. I was initially a little anxious, because despite having lived in New Orleans for 20 years, this was new territory for me. Although these wetlands are less than a 30-minute drive from my home, I had never been out to see them.
I felt some relief upon reaching the marina, as others on the boat were residents of St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes and had made this trip many times for fishing, work and recreation. My fears were replaced by awe as we traveled into the wetlands. The waterways and surrounding marshes were stunning and peaceful and seemed a world away from the city. Yet amazingly, we could still see the New Orleans skyline throughout much of our trip. While New Orleanians identify ourselves as living in a port city, we don't often think of ourselves as living in a coastal city. But we do!
Interspersed with the beautiful natural scenery of southeast Louisiana were stark reminders of how precarious our proximity to the coast is. We saw an entire fishing village that had been wiped away by storm and remains a ghost town. We saw the memorial and sculpture at Shell Beach, placed in honor of the 163 St. Bernard residents who lost their lives during Hurricane Katrina. We saw the further peril we have put ourselves in by decades of carving up these coastal marshes and failing to protect them adequately.
The creation of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet navigation channel, which is a straight shot from the Gulf of Mexico to the Port of New Orleans, has put our entire region at greater risk from hurricanes. It's been called the "Hurricane Highway" because it led a surge of seawater in a direct path to cause catastrophic flooding of St. Bernard Parish and the Lower Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina. However, its damage is more far reaching than that. The construction of the MRGO has made our levees and surge barriers, which were not engineered to withstand open water, more vulnerable. Our hurricane protection systems, both manmade and natural, require protection by freshwater wetlands and marsh.
Because of the MRGO, our wetlands are disappearing at a more rapid pace. The channel itself has eroded as well, from a 650-foot wide waterway to 2,000 feet wide. While traveling down the MRGO, we could see cypress tree "tombstones" marking the spots where vibrant wetlands once flourished. Our charter boat captain told stories about how more islands vanish with each passing year. The introduction of salt water into the marshes has been disastrous.
The good news is that steps are being taken to restore the Mississippi River Delta. There is a Coastal Master Plan in place to rebuild the wetlands, barrier islands and marshes that serve as our city's first lines of defense against hurricanes and to preserve the ecosystems that support our state's way of life. Massive and impressive projects, like a surge barrier and a rock dam, have already been started that will lessen further damage from the MRGO.
But this good news comes with some alarm bells. Progress needs to come at a much faster rate, because our wetlands are disappearing too quickly. While traveling to the Golden Triangle Marsh, it was made very clear that St. Tammany Parish citizens need to be made aware that if we allow wetland deterioration to continue to the point of losing the New Orleans East Land Bridge, the waters of the Gulf will be on their doorstep. The environmental scientists and engineers working on restoration have done the research – they know the solutions and it is imperative, regardless of what we have allowed to happen in the past, that we listen to them now… and act.
The residents of Orleans Parish need to see this as an incredibly urgent issue, because this is as big of a safety issue as having secure, functioning levees. There is a direct correlation between protecting our city – as well as our culture – and restoring our wetlands. The simple truth is, if we fail to restore our coast, we fail to protect our city from future storms. I believe the Gulf Coast, Louisiana's wetlands and the city of New Orleans are treasures worth saving. If we have the will, we have the power to make it happen.
Lynda Woolard
New Orleans, LA
July 26, 2014
The Billion Dollar Question: Who pays for MRGO ecosystem restoration?December 10, 2013 | Posted by Delta Dispatches in Army Corps of Engineers, Community Resiliency, Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)
By Amanda Moore, National Wildlife Federation
Last Tuesday, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority authorized the state attorney general to file suit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in an effort to get the federal government to pick up 100 percent of the expense for the federal plan for ecosystem restoration of damage caused by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO). Since 2008, there has been an ongoing dispute between the state and the Corps involving interpretation of Water Resources and Development Act (WRDA) of 2007 legislation, in which Congress directed the Corps to develop a plan for restoration of the MRGO ecosystem at full federal expense.
The $3 billion plan, mandated for completion by May of 2008, was finally completed in 2012. Yet, there is still disagreement over what cost share Congress intended, leaving this critical federal restoration effort at a standstill. The state contends that construction is a 100 percent federal expense, while the Corps contends that the typical cost share on restoration projects, 65 percent federal and 35 percent state, applies. This billion dollar question will now be determined by a judge.
The MRGO Must Go Coalition, a group of 17 conservation and neighborhood organizations working since 2006 to see the MRGO closed and the ecosystem restored, has researched this cost share issue for several years. We believe that Congress intended for the MRGO projects under WRDA to be at 100 percent federal cost for construction, responding to the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish during Katrina and the devastating role the MRGO played in this event.
Given the extent and urgency of the restoration needs, however, we call on the state of Louisiana, the Corps and potentially other federal agencies to work together to identify all available funding sources and ensure restoration moves forward in a timely manner. All parties involved should be present to work, first and foremost, to ensure timely implementation of comprehensive MRGO ecosystem restoration, as mandated by Congress. We are painfully aware that, every day, the MRGO ecosystem further deteriorates and communities remain at risk.
We welcome this opportunity for the federal court to resolve the cost share dispute. But no matter how the ruling comes down, the bigger question remains: Where will the funds come from to pay for the $3 billion in restoration projects outlined in the MRGO ecosystem restoration plan? Billions of dollars will have to be appropriated by Congress. It is our job, as stakeholders in the resiliency and safety of the Greater New Orleans Area and as citizens who care about justice being served for the communities and ecosystem torn apart by the MRGO, to ensure that our leaders in Congress clearly understand the importance of this restoration effort and that they find the will to get it done. Learn more and take action at www.MRGOmustGO.org.No Comments
Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle signs teach visitors about need for coastal restorationNovember 22, 2013 | Posted by Elizabeth Van Cleve in 2012 Coastal Master Plan, Hurricane Katrina, Meetings/Events, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet
By Amanda Moore (National Wildlife Federation) and Elizabeth Skree (Environmental Defense Fund)
Excitement filled the air last Friday as community members, government officials, students and staff from local and national conservation organizations gathered on the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle viewing platform in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward to celebrate the unveiling of new educational, interactive signs. These signs help interpret an important story for visitors as they look out over the open water and ghostly remains of a former healthy cypress swamp. At this powerful site, in the backyard of a community less than five miles from the French Quarter that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, visitors will learn about efforts to restore the Bayou Bienvenue ecosystem as well as the broader, critical need for coastal restoration. The signs were a project of The Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development and the Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign.
In addition to the four National Park Service-grade signs, a new website, www.restorethebayou.org, was also created to accompany the signs. On the site, visitors can learn more about the history of Bayou Bienvenue; read about the vision for restoration of the wetland triangle as well as broader Louisiana coastal restoration; learn about community and environmental organizations working to restore the wetlands; watch videos in the multimedia gallery; sign the virtual guestbook by taking a photo using Instagram and adding the hashtag #restorethebayou; and take action by signing a petition to decision-makers, asking them to prioritize MRGO-area restoration projects – like the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle.
The dozens of people in attendance heard from Garret Graves, Chair of Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, who proclaimed the importance of the platform and signs when he said, "This is such an important teaching tool for us…it's a microcosm of what is happening on a huge scale in coastal Louisiana."
Other speakers included Charles Allen, Director of the City of New Orleans' Office of Coastal and Environmental Affairs; Arthur Johnson, Executive Director of the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development; and Amanda Moore, Greater New Orleans Program Manager for the National Wildlife Federation, speaking on behalf of the Mississippi River Delta Restoration Coalition.
Get involved! Check out Restore the Mississippi River Delta's Facebook album of photos from the unveiling event, and visit www.restorethebayou.org to learn more about the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle and coastal restoration efforts.No Comments
Media Advisory: Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle Signage Unveiling and Press ConferenceNovember 7, 2013 | Posted by Elizabeth Van Cleve in Media Resources, Mississippi River Gulf Outlet
Media Advisory for Friday, November 15, 2013
Elizabeth Skree, Environmental Defense Fund, 202.553.2543, firstname.lastname@example.com
Emily Guidry Schatzel, National Wildlife Federation, 225.253.9781, email@example.com
Erin Greeson, National Audubon Society, 503.913-8978, firstname.lastname@example.com
Arthur Johnson, The Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development, 504.421.9643, email@example.com
Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle Signage Unveiling and Press Conference
New educational, interactive signs teach visitors about need for coastal restoration
Each year, thousands of people visit the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle viewing platform in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. New signage to be unveiled Nov. 15 will help these visitors and residents alike understand what they are seeing when they look out over a cypress ghost swamp in the backyard of a community devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Visitors will learn why the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle is important to the community, what has happened to the area since construction of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) and how the Triangle serves as a portal to the larger land loss issues facing Louisiana's coast. This signage project is a product of The Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED), Environmental Defense Fund, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation.
Press Conference Details:
WHAT: Press conference, signage unveiling and photo and interview opportunities.
WHEN: Friday, November 15, 10:00 a.m. CT
WHERE: Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle Viewing Platform
Florida Ave at Caffin Ave
Lower 9th Ward
New Orleans, LA 70117
Garret Graves, Chair, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana
Charles Allen, Director, Office of Coastal and Environmental Affairs, City of New Orleans
James Austin Gray II, Councilmember, New Orleans City Council
Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson, Councilmember-at-Large, New Orleans City Council (Invited)
Arthur Johnson, Executive Director, The Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development
Amanda Moore, Greater New Orleans Program Manager, National Wildlife Federation
More information about the signs:
While at the viewing platform, visitors will have numerous opportunities to interact with the signs and the natural area around them. They can scan a QR code with their smartphones and watch videos about Bayou Bienvenue and other coastal restoration projects on the accompanying website. Visitors can use their phones to sign an action alert or text "BAYOU" to donate to the CSED's coastal outreach program, call to listen to locals and coastal experts further discuss the coastal crisis facing Louisiana, sign up for volunteer opportunities with local organizations, as well as sign an electronic guestbook via Instagram.
WHO WE ARE: The Restore the Mississippi River Delta coalition is working to protect people, wildlife and jobs by reconnecting the river with its wetlands. As our region faces the crisis of threatening land loss, we offer science-based solutions through a comprehensive approach to restoration. Comprised of conservation, policy, science and outreach experts from Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, we are located in Houma, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Washington, D.C.; and around the United States. See more at www.mississippiriverdelta.org.No Comments


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