Coverage Archive
04-01-2010: Louisiana-based industries supporting the petroleum industry stand to gain under President Barack Obama's plan to expand offshore drilling.
Shipbuilders, offshore structure fabrication companies and offshore transport companies eventually could see increased demand for their supplies and products, said LSU economist Loren Scott.
"There are certain industries that will be poised to gain," Scott said.
Reversing a ban on oil drilling off most U.S. shores, Obama on ... Read More »
04-01-2010: U.S. energy policy shifts
Local oil and gas companies could see their horizons expand should Congress lift a ban on offshore drilling, industry leaders said Wednesday.
President Obama announced an expansive new drilling policy that could put new oil and natural gas platforms along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico ... Read More »
04-01-2010: McIlhenny Comments On President's Offshore Drilling Announcement
Avery Island, Louisiana – The announcement by The White House to expand offshore drilling comes as discussions are ongoing about how to shore up the region where the nation’s offshore drilling takes place now - in the Gulf of Mexico along America’s Energy Coast. To do that, expanded and increased ... Read More »
03-04-2010: Balancing diverse Gulf interests: A letter to the editor
The Times Picayune
March 04, 2010, 1:31AM
Re: "Scientists: Global warming an inescapable truth," National, Feb. 25.
America's Energy Coast, a coalition of industry and environmental interests, held a hearing on the impact of climate change policy proposals in Mobile, Ala.
From scientists who are calculating current sea level rise data to ... Read More »
11-11-2009: LANDRIEU ADDRESSES AMERICA'S ENERGY COAST NATIONAL POLICY FORUM
By States News Service
Publication: States News Service
Date: Wednesday November 4 2009
The following information was released by Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu :
United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today opened the America's Energy Coast (AEC) National Policy Forum in Washington D.C with remarks highlighting ... Read More »
11-11-2009: Crude Oil Rises as Hurricane Ida Disrupts Output, Dollar Drops
By Alexander Kwiatkowski
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose from a one-week low as Hurricane Ida entered the Gulf of Mexico forcing BP Plc and Chevron Corp. to cut output.
Crude climbed above $78 a barrel as companies evacuated workers in the Gulf of Mexico, an area ... Read More »
10-28-2009: Hurricane Katrina used to fuel case for legislation to reduce greenhouse gases
By Bruce Alpert Times-Picayune
October 28, 2009, 8:01AM
Proponents of legislation to reduce greenhouse gases are citing the strong storm surges during Hurricane Katrina as they seek to overcome opposition from industry groups that say the costs will cripple business, kill jobs and raise prices for consumers.
"In ... Read More »
10-28-2009: GULF COAST ECONOMY
Working to sustain region's assets
via AL.com
The recent article "Economist sees brightening outlook for Gulf Coast economy" (The News Oct. 6) highlighted the projected economic recovery that will take place along the Mississippi and Alabama coasts in the near future. However one must consider how ... Read More »
09-24-2009: 10 Questions: Chris John
By Todd R. Brown
Monday September 21, 2009
Baton Rouge Business Report
Chris John is president of the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association. He grew up in Crowley, where he enjoyed the outdoors and encountered the web of oil works in his backyard.
“I hunted and fished in the ... Read More »
08-03-2009: America's Energy Coast tackles federal regulation problem
BILOXI MS (WLOX) - A group called "America's Energy Coast" wants to break down federal bureaucratic barriers that hinder storm recovery and wetlands projects.
The organization which includes environmental advocates and community leaders from four gulf coast states held a conference in Biloxi ... Read More »
08-02-2009: Groups seek speedier Gulf Coast restoration work
Associated Press 07.31.09, 11:32 AM EDT
BILOXI, Miss. -- A broad range of interests, from oil companies to environmental groups, is issuing an appeal to the Obama administration and Congress to get coastal restoration projects on the Gulf Coast moving faster.
The call for action was issued Thursday ... Read More »
07-31-2009: Groups Want Speedier Coastal Work
A broad range of interests from oil companies to environmental groups, is issuing an appeal to the Obama administration and Congress to get coastal restoration projects on the Gulf Coast moving faster.
The call for action was issued Thursday at a forum arranged by the America's Wetland Foundation in Biloxi. The ... Read More »
07-31-2009: Conflicting policies have stalled coastline restoration, leaders say
Some of Louisiana's most influential scientists and business leaders on Thursday told the commander of the Army Corps of Engineers' Mississippi Valley Division that conflicting government policies have stalled the movement to rebuild Louisiana's vanishing coastline.
Gathered in Biloxi for a conference of America's Wetland Foundation the group asked Brig. ... Read More »
07-30-2009: Energy, coastal forum begins today
BILOXI — The Gulf Coast is key to the nation’s energy and seafood supply and a major commerce route.
But laws and policies that apply to other coastal areas in the country don’t fit here experts ... Read More »
07-23-2009: Energy Reform Act
Senate works on Energy Reform Act.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/20907427/energy-reform-act.htm
05-26-2009: Going Coastal
America's Wetland mixes fun with a stern warning to repair Louisiana's eroding coast
BY DAVID WINKLER-SCHMIT
With the 2009 Hurricane Season beginning on June 1 America's Wetland, a public awareness campaign focused on coastal restoration, wants the national media's spotlight to shine on the important role our fragile ... Read More »
04-21-2009: AEC Leaders Call for Full Funding of Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan To Reduce 'Dead Zone'
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
America's WETLAND Foundation
NEW ORLEANS (April 21 2009)-Leaders from across America's Energy Coast
(AEC) today called upon President Barack Obama and members of Congress to
take immediate steps to reduce the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico by
fully funding the ... Read More »
12-08-2008: Rebuilding coast requires hard choices
Saturday November 29, 2008
The Times Picayune
Mark Davis
New Orleans has always been defined in terms of place. Its proximity to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico made it commercially and strategically essential. Its scant but important elevation and distance from the Gulf of Mexico made ... Read More »
12-08-2008: Agency policies hinder restoration projects
BY MIKE HASTEN / GANNETT CAPITAL BUREAU / DECEMBER 4 2008
BATON ROUGE -- While conservationists battle to save valuable coastal marshes and barrier islands they're running into conflicting laws and agency policies that make the job harder.
America's Energy Coast, a diverse group of interests that's part ... Read More »
12-08-2008: Look back and look forward
Houma Today
Published: Saturday December 6, 2008 at 10:19 p.m.
Looking back to six years ago, when the America’s Wetland Foundation was kicked off, it is easy to see how many real improvements have been made in our coastal challenges and how many of those challenges remain unabated.
Read More »
12-03-2008: Leaders Press National Agenda to Save America's Energy Coast
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Tuesday December 2 2008
Contacts:
Melissa Landry
504 458-5180 (cell)
mlandry@mcopr.com
John Hill
504-756-0101 (cell)
... Read More »
12-03-2008: Agency policies hinder restoration work
Wetlands groups corps at odds over money methods
MIKE HASTEN - MHASTEN@GANNETT.COM - DECEMBER 3, 2008
BATON ROUGE - While conservationists battle to save valuable coastal marshes and barrier islands, they're running into conflicting laws and agency policies that make the job harder.
America's Energy Coast, a diverse group ... Read More »
12-03-2008: Federal spending could aid Louisiana coastal restoration; tell us what you think
Wetlands group sees potential from incoming Obama administration
DOUG ABRAHMS - GANNETT NEWS SERVICE - DECEMBER 3 2008
WASHINGTON - A group promoting Gulf Coast wetlands restoration sees funding opportunities for restoration and energy projects because Congress and the incoming Obama administration are talking about massive infrastructure spending.
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12-03-2008: Group Forms To 'Save America's Energy Coast'
David Goodhue - AHN Reporter
Miami FL (AHN) - A coalition of government, environmental and energy industry officials released a national agenda aimed at restoring the eroding Gulf of Mexico coastline.
The group's plan outlines what it calls immediate steps that must be taken to address energy and sustainability ... Read More »
12-02-2008: America's Wetland assess its six-year effect
Jeremy Alford
Capitol Correspondent
BATON ROUGE — The America's Wetland Foundation released a six-year progress report that highlights its "marketing successes" and touches on its remaining challenges.
"While this report shows we have made many important achievements we cannot rest upon our laurels" said R. King Milling, the ... Read More »
12-02-2008: The branding of "America's Energy Coast"
By Jeremy Alford
As a way to secure support for coastal restoration and hurricane protection state officials have argued for more than a generation that Louisiana’s strategic location in the nation’s energy supply chain was too important to ignore. Now that message is growing thanks to a regional approach ... Read More »
11-30-2008: N.C. officials get La. advice on oil drilling
By AMY WOLD
Advocate staff writer
Published: Nov 26 2008
When Congress allowed the moratorium on offshore drilling to expire this year, officials from some states wondered what drilling could mean for their economies and environments.
To that end, two organizations in North Carolina held conferences on Nov. 12 and ... Read More »
11-30-2008: Oil and Obama: How will energy plans affect La.?
Jeremy Alford Capitol Correspondent
Houma Courier
BATON ROUGE – President-elect Barack Obama said he plans to reverse a few executive orders issued by President George W. Bush, including one that would expand domestic drilling for oil and gas.
There are 65 days left until President Bush, a Republican, ... Read More »
11-23-2008: Special Report: Losing Louisiana
The Daily Advertiser
November 23 2008
The coastal crisis in Louisiana has been decades in the making, yet little has been done to address it. In a five-part series beginning today, the Daily Advertiser’s public service reporter Claire Taylor examines the causes and possible solutions by looking to the ... Read More »
11-20-2008: Waiting for the Go
Louisiana is poised to become a leader in environmental
restoration — so why aren't the state and federal governments coming up
with policies and money to make it happen?
BY MOLLIE DAY -- Best of New Orleans
Louisiana
is a natural laboratory for the budding coastal restoration industry.
It has the ... Read More »
11-20-2008: Drilling's fit with coast at issue
Lawyer urges state to consider the effects drilling would have on the coast and who would get the money
November 20 2008
North Caroline News Observer
Wade Rawlins
MOREHEAD CITY - When considering offshore oil exploration, North Carolina leaders should analyze the future appearance of the coastline if the ... Read More »
11-20-2008: Attorney: Oil drilling coast a complicated issue
Times News
November 20 2008 - 9:21 AM
McClatchy News Service
MOREHEAD CITY -- When considering offshore oil exploration, North Carolina leaders should analyze the future appearance of the coastline if the industry strikes oil and locates here, and they should evaluate whether the state would get any money, ... Read More »
11-20-2008: Symposium looks at offshore oil and gas exploration
November 20 2008 - 1:46 PM
JANNETTE PIPPIN
MOREHEAD CITY - A Carteret County symposium on offshore oil and gas exploration may not have changed resident Breta Stroud's opinion on the subject, but she did leave glad she attended.
"I learned a lot of details about oil and gas exploration. ... Read More »
11-03-2008: Little coast conversation in presidential campaign
Nikki Buskey
Staff Writer
Published: Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 8:00 a.m.
HOUMA -- Anyone planning to base their choice for the next U.S. President on which candidate has a better plan ... Read More »
10-29-2008: Sustainability issues hit close to home on America's Energy Coast
Nick Snow
Oil & Gas Journal
When voter unrest over $4/gal gasoline prices made Congress consider expanding US offshore oil and gas development late last summer, one group already was asking specific questions about the US coastal area where a lot of energy development has taken place already.
... Read More »
10-12-2008: Our View: Building plan for Gulf area
From: 2theAdvocate.com
Published: Oct 12, 2008 - UPDATED: 12:00 a.m.
The severe damage in southwest Louisiana from Hurricane Ike resulted in more than a bit of bitterness among Louisiana residents there. After all, the national press focused almost exclusively on Texas as the giant to our ... Read More »
10-07-2008: Next crisis: the wetlands
The Times Picayune
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Re: "Senate passes rescue proposal," Page 1, Oct. 2.
With so much talk of what needs to be done to clean up the financial mess, one must ask what could have been done to prevent it. ... Read More »
10-07-2008: Help protect U.S. 'Energy Coast'
USA Today
R. King Milling, chairman, America's Wetland Foundation - New Orleans
Help protect U.S. 'Energy Coast' The national energy debate echoes loudly on Capitol Hill, but those on both sides seem to be missing the point ("Congress' failure leaves energy policy up in air," USATODAY.com, ... Read More »
09-29-2008: Gulf Seafood Industry Crippled by Ike's Damage
Sunken boats and washed-away docks leave Gulf fishing industry devastated after Ike
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press
SAN LEON, Texas
On the eve of October's peak seafood harvesting season, migrant fishermen are sweeping debris from gutted bay side homes instead of scooping shrimp and oysters from the lucrative Gulf ... Read More »
09-17-2008: In Easing Offshore Drilling Ban, House Also Expands Energy Exploration Onshore
The measure would reverse longtime ban on oil shale development and extend credits for renewable energy
By Kent Garber
Posted September 17 2008
The House of Representatives took a small step last night toward expanding domestic offshore oil drilling, and so far most of the rhetoric coming out of the ... Read More »
08-25-2008: Coast Guarding
An unlikely partnership between the oil and gas industry and environmentalists aims to resuscitate Louisiana's "Energy Coast."
By Mollie Day/ Gambit Weekly
August 26, 2008
Weblink
On July 23, more than 20 state lawmakers from across the country gathered in Louisiana to listen to Louisiana's coastal wetlands czar, Garret Graves, ... Read More »
08-24-2008: Online Extra: Worry Over Wetlands
July/August 2008
State Legislatures magazine talked with Sidney Coffee of America's WETLAND Foundation about the challenges in trying to restore the Louisiana wetlands.
S.L.: Tell me about the new sustainability goal America's Energy Coast is working toward. What do you mean by 'sustainability'?
Sustainability is not about the status quo. In ... Read More »
08-04-2008: Campaign season a chance to spotlight recovery
Anne Milling founder of Women of the Storm, gave this testimony to the DNC National Platform Hearing in Cleveland, Ohio, on Aug. 1.
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in August 2005, and the federally designed and maintained levees broke, flooding 80 percent of the city to a depth ... Read More »
07-30-2008: Louisiana touts its offshore oil drilling
By Daniel C. Vock, Stateline.org Staff Writer
NEW ORLEANS -- Flying in National Guard Black Hawk helicopters 500 feet above the bayous and marshes along the Mississippi River delta last week, Louisiana officials tried to show visiting state lawmakers the benefits of offshore drilling for oil and ... Read More »
07-28-2008: Accord aims to better protect 'Energy Coast'
Houston Business Journal
July 24, 2008
A new initiative has been launched aimed at better protecting coastal communities and critical infrastructure along the Gulf coast from damage by weather and other natural factors.
The "Accord for a New Sustainability of America's Energy Coast" was unveiled at the America's Energy Coast leadership forum ... Read More »
07-28-2008: Diverse interests reach accord on Gulf Coast needs
Diverse interests reach accord on Gulf Coast needs
Shreveport Times/ Mike Hasten
July 25, 2008
NEW ORLEANS -- Laying down their battle swords in an effort to help each other, environmental and oil and gas production interests have joined government officials in a pact aimed at increasing energy production in the Gulf of ... Read More »
07-24-2008: Unlikely allies unite for 'America's Energy Coast'
The Associated Press/ Cain Burdeau
July 24, 2008
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An unlikely coalition of environmentalists, oil companies, government agencies and shippers is joining to ask the nation to invest in restoring the degraded landscapes of the western Gulf Coast and bolster oil production.
The loose alliance, calling itself America's Energy Coast, ... Read More »
07-21-2008: America's Energy Coast Special Section in Forbes, July 21, 2008 edition
Click here to download a PDF.
... Read More »
06-19-2008: America's WETLAND Foundation Leaders React to President Bush's Renewed Calls for Offshore Drilling
Gulf Coast leaders to issue an accord for energy and environmental sustainability
NEW ORLEANS (June 16, 2008)-- Leaders from the America's WETLAND Foundation issued the following statements today in reaction to President George W. Bush's renewed calls to lift the ban on offshore drilling in the United ... Read More »
12-06-2007: Louisiana Seeks to Form America's Energy Coast Alliance
Louisiana is seeking to form an alliance of the four states along the Gulf of Mexico producing oil and gas. The alliance would be called America's Energy Coast Alliance and the aim of the alliance would be to create a single voice on the national level speaking in favor of ... Read More »
11-28-2007: LSU Hosts National Leaders for Inaugural America's Energy Coast Initiative Executive forum to consider developing accord for new sustainability of the Gulf Coast
On Friday Nov. 30 local and national leaders will gather at the inaugural meeting of a new America’s Energy Coast, or AEC, initiative aimed toward building Gulf Coast sustainability. LSU is hosting the event in partnership with the America’s WETLAND Foundation, or AWF; the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, ... Read More »
08-08-2007: The next energy crisis
More than a quarter of America's oil flows through southern Louisiana. Too bad the land is slowly sinking into the sea.
FORTUNE Magazine
By Nicholas Varchaver, Fortune senior writer
August 6 2007: 9:15 AM EDT
Fortune Magazine -- Port Fourchon feels like the edge of the world. As you drive ... Read More »
12-08-2006: A vote for Louisiana's coastline -- the time is now!
A Column by Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
The tremendous progress we have made recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita can easily be wiped away if our vulnerable and fragile coast is not restored and protected. In the final days of the 109th Congress, lawmakers have a critical window in which ... Read More »
12-06-2006: J. Bennett Johnston: Congress must act to restore wetlands
December 1, 2006
Shreveport Times
For over three decades, Louisiana's congressional delegation has worked to educate Washington about the critical link of energy-producing states to domestic energy and economic security. In that time, we have witnessed the disintegration of vast acreage of valuable wetlands, which support the economy and protect communities, industry ... Read More »
12-06-2006: Royalty bills reach critical crossroad
New Orleans City Business
by Matthew Penix
12/04/2006
After decades of lobbying, the Senate offshore oil revenue sharing bill is in position for congressional approval Tuesday, which would pump $210 million into Louisiana's coastal restoration efforts over the next 10 years. The Senate and President George W. Bush are leaning ... Read More »
12-06-2006: An important first step
Washington Times
By Newt Gingrich
December 4, 2006
In the remaining days of its lame-duck session, the House should adopt Sen. Pete Domenici and Sen. Mary Landrieu's narrowly drawn bill to expand Gulf Coast oil and gas production. If adopted, it would give the Gulf states a greater share of oil revenues ... Read More »
11-28-2006: Some House Republicans urge 'pragmatic' oil vote
Letter seeks adoption of Senate bill this year
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The Times-Picayune
By Bruce Alpert
WASHINGTON
-- Eighteen House GOP moderates, determined to see action taken this
year, Monday urged their party's leadership to drop support for a
broader offshore oil and gas drilling ... Read More »
11-28-2006: Sharing the wealth - Congress should give Gulf Coast states a portion of federal revenues from offshore oil and gas
Editorial
Nov. 20, 2006
Houston Chronicle
When oil and gas is produced on federal leases in landlocked states, 50 percent of the royalty revenue goes into state coffers. However, all proceeds from drilling beyond state territorial limits in the Gulf of Mexico goes to the federal government.
That imbalance, combined with ... Read More »
10-03-2006: Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco celebrates passage of amendments, makes plans for levee boards
BATON ROUGE - Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco issued the following statement regarding the passage of Constitutional Amendments Numbers 1 - 4 in the September 30 election:
"Saturday, our citizens stood strongly with us in stating that there is no room for politics, cronyism and corruption in hurricane protection and coastal restoration. ... Read More »
10-02-2006: Governor's statement on the failure of Congress to reach agreement on offshore royalties
Congress is leaving town to campaign for reelection without addressing the issues of greatest concern to the Gulf Coast. It's past time for a reality check. It's high time for Congress to get serious about saving a part of America's coast that is critical to the nation's economic and energy ... Read More »
07-19-2006: Interior Secretary supports OCS revenue sharing
By Rebecca Mowbray
The Times-Picayune
It was only moments after the deafening helicopter blades lifted
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and his delegation off the
Superdome helipad and whisked them out to tour oil installations on the
Gulf before the copter flew over marsh and then open ... Read More »
05-09-2006: NOLA Business Journal
Blanco reaffirms intent to block lease sales without royalty revisions
By Kathryn Jezer-Morton Staff Writer
NEW ORLEANS - Gov. Kathleen
Babineaux Blanco confirmed today she will deny the planned August
Mineral Management Service offshore drilling lease sale unless the
federal government ... Read More »
05-06-2006: Blanco renews offshore leases threat
Baton Rouge Advocate
By JOE GYAN JR.
New Orleans bureau
Published: May 5, 2006
NEW ORLEANS - Stressing that
"time is running out" to restore Louisiana's rapidly eroding coastline,
Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Thursday she will follow ... Read More »
05-06-2006: Blanco vows lease block Oil royalties must go to La., she says
The Times Picayune
Friday, May 05, 2006
By Pam Radtke Russell
Business writer
Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Thursday renewed her threat to stand in the way
of an August federal oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico
unless ... Read More »