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Unfunded Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) Project and Dire Ramifications

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Statement by President Bush during an interview with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, September 1, 2005: “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did appreciate a serious storm but these levees got breached and as a result much of New Orleans is flooded and now we’re having to deal with it and will..”
Related references: Drowning New Orleans

  • From the National Geographic, this article, Gone With the Wetlands, by Joel K. Bourne, Jr., published October 2004, clearly documents the range of human, environmental and fiscal calamaties that would ensue when, not if, the levees were breached: “The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.”
  • Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? by Anne Rice

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