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Who is to blame for exacerbating the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina?

HTFOff

HTFOff

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The Koch Brothers of course.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-brothers-hurricane-katrina_55df762ae4b0aec9f352a94b

WASHINGTON -- A new report from the Democratic opposition research group American Bridge's Bridge Project describes the way Charles and David Koch, the influential conservative billionaires, put their vast resources into actions that exacerbated the impact of Hurricane Katrina and stalled the Gulf Coast’s recovery.
The report, released Thursday, highlights the Koch brothers' influence on the region before and after the storm, including constructing and operating pipelines that destroyed wetlands south of New Orleans and attempting to obstruct legislation that would have aided the recovery.


The report describes a federal class-action lawsuit claiming that Koch Pipeline Company and other major oil companies were “partly responsible for the destruction of 1 million acres of marshlands and also for millions more acres of dying marshland.” The destruction of the marshlands eliminated New Orleans' "natural protection against hurricane winds and storm surges,” according to the lawsuit. The case was later dismissed because a judge deemed it “ambitious.”
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So, Bush used his hurricane ray and then the Koch brothers swooped in and made it worse!

Liberal rage over the Koch brothers is just so funny.
 
I heard a few more details about this on the news the other day. Seems that they were to "restore the land to pre-existing conditions" after drilling or whatever activity. The most important part of that was replanting the land. They didn't, and without plant roots to hold on to soil, it eroded very rapidly. Supposedly, it was one of the most significant reasons for many of the problems NO experienced, and by the oil companies' OWN documents.
 
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This is funny. New Orleans did not have any "natural protection " from hurricanes ever. Crap it was built below sea level with crappy levys to protect it. They were given federal funds to rework the levys over the years but never quite got around to it. and spent the money on pork projects.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/katrina_federal_money_for_louisiana_went_to_pork_not_levees/
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The wetlands lower the strength of the hurricanes before they hit NO. I guess you could have your opinion though. Aint no wetlands gonna stop nutthin
 
JSt0rm said:
The wetlands lower the strength of the hurricanes before they hit NO. I guess you could have your opinion though. Aint no wetlands gonna stop nutthin
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I'm not sure why you quoted me in your post. Do you think that the flat wetlands will slow down a hurricane? That is a silly assumption on its own account. Wetland isn't stopping or making any sizable dent in a hurricane.

The primary damage in New Orleans was due to the failure of the levies. The levies that the state was given billions in federal dollars to rework to withstand these storms. They did not use this money on the levies but spent it on Pork Projects or should I say they wasted it. The Mayor of New Orleans and the State Government is at fault for the largest part of the disaster.
 
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:biggrin: The koch brothers, of course, I should have known! They are obviously responsible for all evil.

These silly left wing groups are funny.
 
Went on a swamp tour a year or two before Katrina. Remember the tour guide showing us one of the pumping stations and talking about how everybody was screwed if a really bad hurricane came through because the pumps and levee system were so old and in disrepair and nobody wanted to spend money to fix anything.
 
The Koch brothers got me off to a bad start this morning when my fingers broke through the toilet paper. Evil bastards.
 
Libtards gonna tard.

You do realize that NJ and parts of NY still hasn't fully recovered from Sandy, right? Let's start a circle-jerk thread about that so both sides can have some fun.
 
HTFOff said:
The Koch Brothers of course.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-brothers-hurricane-katrina_55df762ae4b0aec9f352a94b
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So Huffpo links to a site called realkochfacts.americanbridge.org and the study was done by a group whose sole purpose is to "opposing the conservative movement’s extreme ideology and exposing its dishonest tactics."

This, combined with the reports complete neglect of the role the levies played in Katrina's destruction makes me more than a tad skeptical about the bias of the report.

I find it odd that the 'evidence' of wrong doing in this report consists solely of lawsuits being filed - not on actual merit of the claims. No supporting evidence is given for how the pipelines caused issues other than a few lines of the lawsuits allegations. The report also focuses solely on the Koch brothers even though they were only one of the eleven companies involved in the lawsuit. Its not like Shell, Exxon and BP are small companies either. The potential damage caused by the Koch pipeline could be ameliorated by location per Lt. Gen. Carl Strock head of teh Army Corps of Engineers:
the marsh-restoration project would not have done much to diminish Katrina's storm surge, which passed east of the coastal wetlands.
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. The report does not note the location of the Koch pipeline and affected wetlands.

The report also treats the restarting of two lumber mills in the area as a negative. The plants had previously been idle but were restarted in part to deal with downed lumber sufficient produce "800,000 Single Family Homes And 25 Millions Tons Of Paper And Paperboard". (It reads as though they were started up faster than planned due to the resulting downed trees) This is a bad thing because the Koch brothers benefited from "Post Katrina Profit Making" even though the plants were already going to be restarted and the plants were going to stay open after the Katrina wood had been processed.

Are they blameless? Unlikely but given the thin evidence and stretching of claims (If thats what constitutes a negative view of post katrina profit making then there are whole shit ton of companies equally guilty) this report seems driven out of vendetta rather than any actual substance
 
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And here I thought the Huffington Post was just a non-issue hack 'news' organization no one listens to,... yet, here it is causing all sorts of butt-hurt and rage.

Aw, did the Wibarals caws you wittle butt to huwt?

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Butt-hurt and rage not found, son. Just well deserved ridicule.

Newell Steamer said:
And here I thought the Huffington Post was just a non-issue hack 'news' organization no one listens to,... yet, here it is causing all sorts of butt-hurt and rage.

Aw, did the Wibarals caws you wittle butt to huwt?

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Seems like they didn't do everything right but that the impact was negligible due to the storm track.

I'll go with decades of complacency on the part of the state, city, and army corps of engineers (and Congress by extension) for most of the blame since the infrastructure was woefully inadequate to the task.
 
hahahaha, idiot lib activist groups spouts some drivel, lefty outlets like huffpo regurgitate it to their idiot readers. Ooogabooogabooo, it's the Koch brothers hiding under your bed 😉 😀
 
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