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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAY TWENTY-THIRD Nucor plant query Check out a post published today seeking information about a river diversion project called West Maurepas. This project is being promoted by the state as one of 39 high priority coastal projects and I want to find out whether it is proposed for construction at the Nucor iron plant site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a river diversion at the Nucor iron plant one of 39 projects under consideration for BP funding?</title>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=45019</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Len Bahr, PhD* As many loyal readers will remember, I have long espoused the idea that the $4 billion Nucor iron processing plant, now under construction on the East Bank near Convent, would make a perfect site for a conveyance channel to allow Mississippi River water and sediment to flow into the highly stressed Maurepas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 2013 Coastal Scuttlebutt</title>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=44770</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAY THIRTEENTH-FOURTEENTH National Fish and Wildlife Foundation managing some of the BP funds Mark Schleifstein reported in NOLA.com today (May 14) that a public/private nonprofit corporation called the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) will administer $2.54 billion paid by BP and Transocean for criminal plea agreements over the company’s actions during the massive Deepwater Horizon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving the delta is a pipe dream sans sediment diversion projects.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Len Bahr, PhD*  Climate change and delta deterioration Last week the concentration of atmospheric CO2 reached 400 ppm, more than at any time in human history. This is the legacy of a century of accelerating combustion of fossil carbon, which has triggered dramatic changes in a climate pattern that had been extraordinarily stable for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APRIL 2013 Coastal Scuttlebutt (cont.)</title>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=44658</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[APRIL THIRTIETH Atmospheric CO2 to reach 400 PPM during sustained period James Gerken reported in HuffingtonPost.com that the northern hemisphere will soon experience the highest concentration of atmospheric CO2 either directly recorded since 1958 or estimated from ice cores dating back 800,000 yrs. The CO2 concentration is rapidly approaching a sustained level of 400 parts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 2013 Coastal Scuttlebutt</title>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=44571</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[APRIL TWELFTH-THIRTEENTH-FOURTEENTH The &#8216;Great Wall of Houma&#8217; project predictably passes another &#8216;hurdle&#8217; Amy Wold reported in The Advocate that the highly contentious Morganza-to-the-Gulf project (MTTG) was approved by the Mississippi River Commission during their stopover in Baton Rouge last week as part of their annual low water inspection trip. As I&#8217;ve written in previous posts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 2013 Coastal Scuttlebutt (Cont.)</title>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=44401</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARCH THIRTY-FIRST BP bucks may be Jindal’s best chance to look good in 2016 Political pundits across the state and nation agree that Bobby Jindal intends to seek the GOP nomination for president in 2016. If so, Jindal will be running on his record as two-term governor of one of the reddest and poorest states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sediment traps won&#8217;t do squat for the coast!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Len Bahr, PhD* On March 18 Mark Waller reported in NOLA.com that Webster Pierce, Jr., an inventor from Cutoff, Louisiana has obtained a patent for a plastic device he calls “Wave Robber” that he believes could trap coastal sediments to help rebuild the coast. I share Mr. Pierce’s commitment to the great coastal cause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 2013 Coastal Scuttlebutt</title>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=44307</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARCH FOURTEENTH Our own representatives oppose a carbon tax crucial to the coast During the 90s, the Clean Air Act was amended to incorporate a Republican concept called Cap-and- Trade, an economic incentive for power plants to reduce their emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides, the principal pollutants that produce acid rain. Each company was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February Coastal Scuttlebutt (cont.)</title>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=44172</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FEBRUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH Safeguarding BP oil monies The ongoing federal trial in New Orleans to establish the amount of the fines against BP, Transocean and Halliburton for the Macondo oil blowout in 2010 continues to capture the interest of coastal advocates, whose hopes to save parts of the coast hang largely on the amount of the [...]]]></description>
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