Tri-Parish Times
By Brett Schweinberg
December 21, 2009

“In a move that marked a shift in statewide levee politics, Gov. Bobby Jindal and a wide-ranging consortium of local officials held a conference to tout recent and future coastal restoration efforts, and asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expedite the stalled Morganza-to-the-Gulf levee system…

“We’re going to spend more than $778 million on coastal restoration and hurricane protection efforts in 2010 alone,” said Jindal. “Whether it’s the oil and gas off of our coast, the 30 percent of the nations fisheries, or the fact that they spend hundreds of millions of dollars after these storms to restore and rebuild communities, it just makes sense to restore the coast, to rebuild the wetlands, and also to invest in hurricane and flood protection.” …

‘We’re officially requesting the corps of engineers joins Louisiana, our parishes and our levee districts on the construction of the authorized and funded Morganza-to-the-Gulf project,’ said Jindal. ‘This project has been authorized three times. It’s been funded. We don’t need studies, we need the federal government to join us in a partnership.’”

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