The University of New Orleans hosted the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration and Conservation on Wednesday. They met to discuss the RESTORE Act and receive an update about an LSU study on how land loss will impact the economy of Louisiana’s coast.
King Milling is chairman of the Governor’s Advisory Commission. He posed the question that everyone is thinking about, but no one wants to ask:
“How many hundreds of billions of dollars do you incorporate into the movement of towns and communities and citizens as the storms get larger, or as they become more impacted? Obviously we can’t sit here and judge it, but everyone in this room knows it’s real.”
The study is also looking at resettlement, and the additional costs that come with building new communities away from the coast.
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