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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

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Edwards speaking at the groundbreaking event for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project on August 10, 2023. at a ceremony on August 27, 2023, commemorating the 18th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Where the river’s polluted water enters the Gulf there is rapid land loss and a growing dead zone.

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The Uncertain Future of Gas Exports on Louisiana’s Vanishing Coastline

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But four hurricanes since 2005 and sea level rise — it really decimated this coastline.” He estimates that 70 metres of his property has been swallowed up by sea level rise since he moved there in 1998, with trees and wetlands washed away as the ocean advanced bit by bit with each passing year.