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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (159391)	2/28/2006 7:56:42 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794026

Remember when the wackos painted the baby harp seals with red paint to make their fur worthless. But red paint make them easy targets for polar bears who slaugthered them by the 1000s.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (159391)	2/28/2006 10:32:36 AM
From: tbancroft	Respond to of 794026

What a surprise the whackos were wrong yet again:) It is a recurring theme. Popular Mechanics' latest issue looks at the impact of environmental groups in New Orleans. What would have cost $85 million was rejected, and now the levee restoration is projected to be more than $1 billion. tinyurl.com "In 1965, the same year Hurricane Betsy swamped large sections of New Orleans (including the Lower Ninth Ward), the Army Corps of Engineers presented Congress with an audacious blueprint for protecting the city from a fast-moving Category 3 storm. The $85 million Barrier Plan proposed sealing off Lake Pontchartrain from the gulf with massive, retractable flood barriers. The goal: Stop storm surges 25 miles east of the levees that encircle New Orleans. After Betsy, the plan was expanded to include gates on two of the four drainage canals that slice into the city from Pontchartrain (two of which breached their floodwalls after Katrina). But, environmental groups objected to the impact that the Pontchartrain floodgates might have on wildlife and wetlands. The Sewer and Water Board of New Orleans vetoed gates on the canals. So the Corps instead built higher levees and floodwalls."