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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> cancels $3 billion <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coastal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coastal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#restoration</a> project funded by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilSpill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilSpill</a> settlementBy JACK BROOK Updated 9:17 PM EDT, July 17, 2025NEW ORLEANS (AP) — "Louisiana on Thursday canceled a $3 billion repair of disappearing Gulf coastline, funded by the 2010 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepwaterHorizon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepwaterHorizon</a> oil spill settlement, scrapping what <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conservationists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservationists</a> called an urgent response to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> but Gov. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JeffLandry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JeffLandry</a> viewed as a threat to the state’s way of life. [??!!! Like pollution from BP isn't a threat?!!!]"Despite years of studies and reviews, the project at the center of Louisiana’s coastal protection plans grew increasingly imperiled after Landry, a Republican, took office last year. Its collapse means that the state could lose out on more than $1.5 billion in unspent funds and may even have to repay the $618 million it already used to begin building."The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group, a mix of federal agencies overseeing the settlement funds, said that 'unused project funds will be available for future Deepwater Horizon restoration activities' but would require review and approval."The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion Project aimed to rebuild upward of 20 square miles (32 kilometers) of land over a 50-year period in southeast Louisiana to combat sea level rise and erosion on the Gulf Coast. When construction stalled last year because of lawsuits, trustees warned that the state would have to return the hundreds of millions of dollars it had already spent if the project did not move forward."Former Louisiana Rep. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GarretGraves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GarretGraves</a>, a Republican who once led the state’s coastal restoration agency, said that killing the project was 'a boneheaded decision' not rooted in science." 'It is going to result in one of the largest setbacks for our coast and the protection of our communities in decades,' Graves said. 'I don’t know what chiropractor or palm reader they got advice from on this, but — baffling that someone thought this was a good idea.'"Project supporters stressed that it would have provided a data-driven, large-scale solution to mitigate the worst effects of an eroding coastline in a state where a football field of land is lost every 100 minutes and more than 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers) of land have vanished over the past century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey."<a href="https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-coastal-restoration-gulf-oil-spill-affaae2877bf250f636a633a14fbd0c7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-coastal-restoration-gulf-oil-spill-affaae2877bf250f636a633a14fbd0c7</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UltraDeepwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UltraDeepwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoastalRestoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoastalRestoration</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPIsNotSorry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BPIsNotSorry</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GulfCoast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GulfCoast</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GulfStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GulfStates</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepwaterHorizonOilSpill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepwaterHorizonOilSpill</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stupidity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCatastrophe</a>

DoomsdaysCWThe Oil Company Behind the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepwaterHorizon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepwaterHorizon</a> Spill Wants to Do a Massive, Risky Drilling Project in the GulfJuly 11, 2025 "What’s happening: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BP</a>, the company behind the worst <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilSpill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilSpill</a> in U.S. history, is asking the Trump administration to allow it to drill a new, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UltraDeepwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UltraDeepwater</a> project in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GulfOfMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GulfOfMexico</a>."Why it matters: BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 killed 11 people and released 4.9 million barrels of oil that blanketed the Gulf shoreline. It wiped out horrific amounts of marine life, cratered local economies, and left Gulf communities burdened with everything from health issues to unemployment."The conditions around BP’s new proposed project, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kaskida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kaskida</a>, could make it even more dangerous than the Deepwater Horizon. Kaskida would be in greater depths, where equipment would have to withstand higher pressures and temperatures."BP lacks experience operating this type of well and had not met required qualifications for using this drilling technology at the time of its application. It also vastly underestimates the impacts of another oil spill. We’re telling the government not to give BP another chance to contaminate the Gulf and disrupt coastal communities." <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BPLied</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPIsNotSorry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BPIsNotSorry</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BPKnew</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCatastrophe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThanksBigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThanksBigOil</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oiligarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GulfStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GulfStates</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleanUpYourMessBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CleanUpYourMessBP</a>

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