Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry raised serious objections Thursday to a $3 billion project long hailed as key to restoring the state's eroding coastline, decrying the growing cost and predicting dire harm to a coastal culture dependent on fishing, shrimping and oyster dredging.

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Louisiana’s governor raises major doubts about a stalled $3 billion coastal restoration project

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Gov. Jeff Landry strongly criticized plans for an unprecedented coastal restoration project years in the works on Thursday, calling for a compromise over the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, which he says

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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry raised serious objections Thursday to a $3 billion project long hailed as key to restoring the state’s eroding coastline, decrying the growing cost and predicting dire harm to a coastal culture dependent on fishing, shrimping and oyster dredging. The Republican governor’s remarks to a Senate committee in Baton Rouge were his most extensive — and most decisively negative — on the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project…

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(By Nolan Mckendry/The Center Square) — The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project is still being held up by lawsuits and public concern. Gov. Jeff Landry testified to that concern in front of the Senate Transportation, Highways and Public Works Committee. “This project is going to destroy our culture,” Landry said. “It destroys the shrimping industry, which […] The post Major coastal project still held up by lawsuits, local concerns appeared …

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