It really isn't. We are still loosing a square mile of wetlands a day. Some areas like the LaBranche wetlands and the Caernarvon diversion are showing slight positive growth, but the vast majority of the wetlands are washing away.
>Sounds like it's coming back on it's own. When you build in these areas, >nature will take it back eventually. Restoring the wetlands artificially >seems to be a waste of time as the next hurricane would take it out. Not really. KAtrina and Rita just accellerated the loss that was already happening. If we get positive wetlands growth in the areas most vulnerable, hurricane damage will be repaired rapidly. >Wouldn't it be easier to remove the oil companies somewhere that isn't in >the path of destruction? Why haven't we learned a lesson from this? Where? ANWR? The oil is under the wetlands in Louisiana. Unless we throw the ENTIRE North Slope of Alaska and the offshore of Florida and Alabama open to production immediately, we will never make up for the oil and gas production the could be lost in the Louisiana wetlands. Nearly 20% of the domesticly used oil comes out of the ground in Louisiana. That is 20% of the use in this country, not 20% of what is produced domesticly. As for the refineries and pipelines, they need to stay where the oil is coming in at. Do you want one in your back yard? The lessons learned is that the problems caused by our oil addition need to be remediated. That involves rebuilding the wetlands to protect the petroleum infrastructure. It just strikes me that the rest of the country is ignoring the lesson. Well, the price for that is at the pump. Can you say $6.00 a gallon for Unleaded? > >- Matt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:207915 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
