Funnel effect revealed by storm-surge model
Oil and gas canals
Dutch floodgates
Earlier Relevant Press Reports
Relevant press reports tracked during preparation of report Note: some of these links no longer active, but articles may be in archives Times-Picayune series on the Dutch experience "Beating Back the Sea" Times-Picayune "Corps may put gates at key canals" 11/12 Living on Earth "Rebuilding the Gulf Coast" 11/13 (link to mp3 recording) Baton Rouge Advocate "BR panelists pessimistic on outlook for La. coast" 11/14 USA Today "Katrina stirs debate over huge shipping channel's fate" 11/14 New York Times "Louisiana's Marshes Fight for Their Lives" 11/15 Times Picayune "Port, St. Bernard agree on plan for controversial ship channel" 11/15 BizNewOrleans.com "Deal reached on MRGO" 11/15 MSNBC "44 oil spills found in southeast Louisiana" 11/19 Lafayette Daily Advertiser " Scientists map the muck" 11/19 Times-Picayune Most everyone wants to close the shipping channel. 11/27 Times-Picayune Call it MR-GONE 11/27 New York Times For Category 5 Safety, Levees Are Piece of a $32 Billion Pie 11/29 San Diego Union-Tribune Restoring wetlands is a complicated business 11/30 Baton Rouge Advocate Scientist says rebuilt coast won't save south Louisiana 12/5 Los Angeles Times Mike Tidwell: Giving up on New Orleans 12/6 Times-Picayune Evidence points to man-made disaster 12/08 Houston Chronicle Mike Tidwell: Battle for New Orleans is over; this president lost it 12/8 Times-Picayune Map: How disaster happened (pdf) 12/9 Baton Rouge Advocate Scientists say levees need new concepts 12/10 Dallas Morning News New Orleans rebirth depends on marshes 12/10 New York Times editorial Death of an American City 12/11 Fort Worth Star-Telegram The forgotten hurricane12/11 Philadelphia Inquirer Mike Tidwell: Give up on New Orleans now 12/11 Los Angeles Times Encroaching Seas Test Ingenuity of Lowlands 12/11 New York Times On Gulf Coast, a Conflict Over How to Rebuild 12/12 Chicago Tribune Still in harm's way 12/15 Times-Picayune 'STRONGER AND BETTER' 12/16 Reuters US to spend $3 bln on New Orleans levees 12/16 Chicago Tribune Bush pledges $1.5 billion for levees 12/16 Los Angeles Times Bush Seeks $1.5 Billion More to Bolster Levees 12/16 Times-Picayune St. Bernard divided on MR-GO plan 12/17 Baltimore Sun Time, organization hinder plan to protect New Orleans 12/19 Times-Picayune SHELLACKING THE COAST 12/19 Times-Picayune 40-Arpent levee boost planned 12/19 Times-Picayune Big aid package nearing House passage 12/19 Baton Rouge Advocate Bill ties La. aid, ANWR drilling 12/19 LA Times editorial Protecting New Orleans 12/19 WWF Newsroom Environmental security in a post-tsunami world 12/19 Times-Picayune $29 billion aid bill wins Senate OK 12/22 PR Newsline Officials Call for Offshore Revenue Sharing for Louisiana Washington Post $29 Billion Approved for Gulf Coast Storm Relief 12/23 Times-Picayune Plaquemines, St. Bernard start anew 12/25 New York Times With Coastline in Ruins, Cajuns Face Prospect of Uprooted Towns 12/27 Marketwatch Recovery hinges on levee protection 12/27 CounterPunch T.W. Croft: Gulf Storms, Fables of Reconstruction and Hard Times 12/30 Times-Picayune Wetlands bounce back after hurricanes 12/31 Earth and Sky Radio Reconstructing New Orleans ... Mead Allison interview 01/01 The Nation Ari Kelman: In the Shadow of Disaster 01/02 Times-Picayune Corps cash to buy better levees 01/05 Times-Picayune Louisiana has little time left in Congress 01/07 Times-Picayune One for all, and all for flood protection 01/07 Times-Picayune MR-GO goes from hero to villain 01/08 Times-Picayune Closing one channel won't solve everything 01/08 Times-Picayune Officials tiptoe around footprint issue 01/08 New York Times All Parts of New Orleans Included in Rebuilding Plan 01/08 New York Times With Findings on Storms, Centrist Recasts Warming Debate 01/10 Times-Picayune Louisiana visitors plead for Dutch style coastal defenses 01/11 Baton Rouge Advocate Dutch water-control system impresses 01/13 Times-Picayune Engineers have qualms about MR-GO work 01/13 Baton Rouge Advocate Group: 'Fix our coast or we are toast' 01/13 Baton Rouge Advocate Levee investigators to meet this Wed. 01/15 LA Times Fatal Flaws: Why the Walls Tumbled in New Orleans 01/17 Science editorial Acts of God? 01/20 Times-Picayune editorial Close the case on MR-GO 01/21 New York Times Competing plans to repair New Orleans flood protection 01/22 Times-Picayune Levee system along river held its ground in storm 01/23 Baton Rouge Advocate ‘Motley' crew of scientists, others brainstorm... 01/25
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