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Bill Proposed To Create St. Tammany Parish Levee Board
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...
Louisiana Lawmakers Split On Levee Board Lawsuit
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...
Louisiana governor’s nominating committee to reconvene in April
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...
Levee Board Disregards Governor’s Opposition To Doody
Local headlines have been dominated by the ongoing story of the lawsuit filed by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East's board. As many know, the legal claim is directed at nearly 100 of the world's largest oil and pipeline companies for their role...
Complaint filed by Louisiana state senator against judge
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...
Delay in lawsuit against Louisiana attorney general
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...
President of Louisiana Oil and Gas Association not in court
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...
Governor could have more power to appoint level boards
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...
Louisiana legislators to take on lawsuit by levee board
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...