http://wwno.org en http://wwno.org/post/dunes-protect-port-fourchon <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Geneva; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">Work is expected to begin in spring on construction of a sand dune barrier designed to protect Port Fourchon.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Geneva; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><a href="http://bit.ly/Soc5yu" target="_blank">The Courier reports</a>&nbsp;the Greater Lafourche Port Commission has approved a $3 million bid to build about a mile of dunes along the beach.</p> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:23:06 +0000 The Associated Press 26982 at http://wwno.org http://wwno.org/post/la-highway-1-vulnerable-storm-surge <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Geneva; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; ">The two-lane stretch of Louisiana Highway 1 that cuts through the marshes of south Lafourche Parish is the only road to Port Fourchon, the oil and gas hub that serves 90 percent of deepwater petroleum operations in the Gulf of Mexico.</p> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:09:51 +0000 The Associated Press 20107 at http://wwno.org