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Refineries and Nuclear Power Plants Under Threat From Spillway Flood Gate Opening

“As we reported previously, Obama has found himself on the verge of another environmental scandal now that he has no choice but to redirect the Mississippi river via the Morganza spillway – either lose millions in barrels of daily refined production and potentially the impairment of the Colonial Pipeline, two events which would promptly cause gas prices to soar to new records, or redirect the river via the Spillway, and cause the flooding of millions of acres, and numerous towns and cities, and possibly another New Orelans bases crisis. It seems Obama has picked the lesser of two evils: i.e., protect the oil: “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Friday it anticipates opening the Morganza Spillway on the western bank of the swollen Mississippi River to divert floodwaters into the Atchafalaya River basin and protect Baton Rouge, Louisiana, New Orleans and refineries from flooding.”

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2 comments

  1. kedzilla

    does the US army corps ever design flood protection properly. I mean where I went to school we knew civil engineering was a joke, but apparently they’re borderline retarded.

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  2. cronkite

    budget my friend…budgets

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