Relief, Regret as Louisiana's Largest Coastal Restoration Project is Scrapped
The news, when it finally came, was not surprising.
But when officials announced last week that Louisiana was canceling the long-controversial, $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion - the state's largest coastal restoration project, intended to build new wetlands along its steadily vanishing coastline - it felt like a gut punch to Alex Kolker.
"We're losing something that is designed to push back the sea, at a time when we very much need to push back the sea," said Kolker, a professor and coastal geologist at the Louisiana Universities Marine...
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