State Abandons 80,000 LA Citizens With Its "Coastal Protection Master Plan"
Except for Kirk Cheramie of KLRZ, local media has completely dropped the ball on the story that the communities of coastal Southeast Louisiana below the Intracoastal Waterway have been written-off by Federal and State government in their plan to protect coastal Louisiana from hurricanes. Look at the plan for yourself. You'll have to do some digging. The truth doesn't come from the verbiage, but from the maps. The key language is 100 year storm and greater than 100 year storm. The former means Category 3 levee protection. The latter means Category 5 protection. Analyze the maps. See where the various lines are drawn and the color code for those lines. Cat 5 levees will go no lower than the Intracoastal.
Tell me one thing State of Louisiana, how in the fuck (note: first use of the F word on TPRTK) are ya'll going to stick a Cat 5 levee on the Intracoastal in downtown Houma?!?!
Here's Deputy Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources Randy Hanchey's quote from the USA Today article I mentioned in an earlier post: "We believe that it's probably not possible to provide adequate protection that people should be living down there" . By "down there" he means Montegut, Chauvin, Bourg, Houma below the Intracoastal, Theriot, Dulac, Grand Isle, Leeville, Golden Meadow, Galliano, Cut Off, Cote Blanche, Larose, Empire, Venice, Port Sulphur, and Buras. Yet, the State can justify protecting the cesspool of New Orleans by spending billions of our tax dollars.
And another thing, while you're at it Mr. Hanchey, would you inform Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, at whose pleasure you serve, she is not welcome "down there" in the 10th Ward of Lafourche Parish?
So, the day the plan is officially adopted, who's going to pay me for the depreciation to the value of my homeplace in Golden Meadow? Is the State of Louisiana prepared for a class action lawsuit that will dwarf the Plaquemine Parish oystermen's "taking" suit? Because, essentially, that is what the State will be doing by adopting its plan and depreciating my property. It will be taking my property and I am entitled to just compensation.
Additionally, we 80,000, or so, who are being left out, what about our right to equal protection? Those are not just words on paper.
Except for Kirk Cheramie of KLRZ, local media has completely dropped the ball on the story that the communities of coastal Southeast Louisiana below the Intracoastal Waterway have been written-off by Federal and State government in their plan to protect coastal Louisiana from hurricanes. Look at the plan for yourself. You'll have to do some digging. The truth doesn't come from the verbiage, but from the maps. The key language is 100 year storm and greater than 100 year storm. The former means Category 3 levee protection. The latter means Category 5 protection. Analyze the maps. See where the various lines are drawn and the color code for those lines. Cat 5 levees will go no lower than the Intracoastal.
Tell me one thing State of Louisiana, how in the fuck (note: first use of the F word on TPRTK) are ya'll going to stick a Cat 5 levee on the Intracoastal in downtown Houma?!?!
Here's Deputy Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources Randy Hanchey's quote from the USA Today article I mentioned in an earlier post: "We believe that it's probably not possible to provide adequate protection that people should be living down there" . By "down there" he means Montegut, Chauvin, Bourg, Houma below the Intracoastal, Theriot, Dulac, Grand Isle, Leeville, Golden Meadow, Galliano, Cut Off, Cote Blanche, Larose, Empire, Venice, Port Sulphur, and Buras. Yet, the State can justify protecting the cesspool of New Orleans by spending billions of our tax dollars.
And another thing, while you're at it Mr. Hanchey, would you inform Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, at whose pleasure you serve, she is not welcome "down there" in the 10th Ward of Lafourche Parish?
So, the day the plan is officially adopted, who's going to pay me for the depreciation to the value of my homeplace in Golden Meadow? Is the State of Louisiana prepared for a class action lawsuit that will dwarf the Plaquemine Parish oystermen's "taking" suit? Because, essentially, that is what the State will be doing by adopting its plan and depreciating my property. It will be taking my property and I am entitled to just compensation.
Additionally, we 80,000, or so, who are being left out, what about our right to equal protection? Those are not just words on paper.
posted by Carl A. Chauvin at 8:51 AM
1 Comments:
Lafourche Parish should vote down any such move to have that levee any where in Lafourche on the intercostal. refude to participate !
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