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In 2006, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East was created after a constitutional amendment was passed by voters. That levee board works to improve flood protection efforts in several parishes, including Orleans, Tangipahoa and St. Tammany. One...

Last year, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East filed a lawsuit against almost 100 oil and gas companies. The lawsuit alleges that the building of canals and pipelines have caused enormous damage and injury to the Louisiana wetlands. In fact, the...

The current president of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East is Tim Doody. His term has expired and Gov. Bobby Jindal does not want to reappoint him. The SLFPA-E filed a lawsuit last year against almost 100 oil and gas companies for the injury and...

The lawsuit filed by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association against Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has met with several issues in just two days' worth of hearings. As we discussed last week, the case was postponed because the president of LOGA was not considered...

In the last post, we talked about the lawsuit against the attorney general of Louisiana, Buddy Caldwell. The suit, filed by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, started on Monday, Feb. 24. The president of LOGA, Don Briggs, did not appear at court on either Monday...

A judge in Baton Rouge's 19th Judicial District Court was not pleased when Don Briggs, the president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, did not appear in court this past Monday. In fact, the judge made it clear that a subpoena was a court order and not just an...

Since the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East filed a lawsuit against almost 100 oil and gas companies last year, the governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, and his coastal advisor, Garret Graves, have been outspoken opponents. The lawsuit seeks...

It's been in the works for several weeks. Both opponents and proponents of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East's lawsuit against 97 oil and gas companies have heard that there would be legislative action about the lawsuit. However, until now, there...