American Energy, Imperiled Coast: Oil and Gas Development in Louisiana's Wetlands

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261 INDEX Act 6, 165, 168, 182. See also Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Act Act 8, 207, 209. See also Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) Act 41, 135. See also Coastal Environment Protection Trust Fund Act 307, 38. See also Stream Control Commission (SCC) agriculture, 6, 8, 32, 39; canals for, 3, 8, 22; rice, 98; sugar cane, 52 America’s Energy Coast initiative, 210, 215 America’s WETLAND Foundation, 185, 191– 94, 211, 226; America’s Energy Coast initiative , 210, 215; Building a Resilient Energy Gulf Coast, 214; public campaign, 195, 215 American Petroleum Institute, 89 Amoco (Environmental Conservation Department ), 95 Anderson, Bob: “Vanishing Wetlands,” 140 Angelle, Scott, 195 Arab oil embargo of 1973, 96 artificial reefs, 87, 95; “Rigs to Reefs” program, 166 Atchafalaya basin: diversion projects into, 142, 144; railroad bridge, 8; study of, 132; Tennessee Gas pipeline, 51 Atchafalaya River, 20, 37, 47, 64, 158; delta, 67; Mississippi River diversion into, 9, 105, 142, 144 Audubon Society, 88, 114, 142 Avery Island, La., 16 Bahr, Len, 109 Barataria, La., 177 Barataria Bay, La.: canal dredging, 133,199; canal dredging study, 83; pipelines, 70 Barataria estuary, La., 115, 122 Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program (BTNEP), 169–70, 181, 198, 226 barrier islands: loss from dredging, 138–39, 196; pipelines, 40, 70, 99, 126, 137, 152; protection projects, 202; restoration projects, 138–39, 142, 162; as storm buffers, 1, 138, 140, 143, 213–14, 221 Bastian Bay, La., 70, 111 Battelle Laboratories, 89–91 Bay Champagne, La., 86 Bay Marchand, La.: LOOP projects, 113, 115, 122; oil field, 46; Shell oil spill, 84, 86 Bay St. Elaine, La., 55 Bayou Lafourche, La., 34; Corps projects, 9; Kammer study, 33; LA Highway 1, 198; LOOP projects, 113, 115, 117, 123; oysterbeds, 58; Shell Mars pipeline, 178 Bayou Little Caillou, La., 62, 97 Bayou Sale, La., 26 Bayou St. Denis, La., 24 Bayou Terrebonne, La., 29–30 Behrhorst, Vernon, 123–24 Belle Isle, La., 16 Benoit, George, 70, 95, 100, 126, 222 Benoit, Tab, 226 Berard, Dailey, 51–52, 60, 67, 69, 71–72, 222 Berry, Bill, 156–57 Biden, Joe, 118 Bingaman, Jeff, 190 “Bird’s Foot” delta, 7, 133, 158. See also Deltaic Plain, La. 262 INDEX Black Bayou, La., 15, 40, 213; oil field, 26–28, 31 Blanco, Kathleen, 202–5 Blanco v. Burton, 202–7 board roads, 19, 22–24, 27 Boesch, Donald, 176 Bollinger, Boysie, 201 Boudreaux Canal, La., 137 Boudreaux, Bishop Warren, 144 Boulet, Henri, 199 BP (British Petroleum), 178, Endymion Pipeline , 199; Macondo oil field, 3, 13, 86, 210, 215–17, 220; oil spill, 1, 3, 13, 209, 216, 220–21, 227; Thunderhorse deepwater production , 199 BP/Deepwater Horizon, 1, 3, 210, 215–16 Breaux, John, 160, 166–69, 172, 222 Breaux Act. See Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA, “Breaux Act”) Breton Sound, La., 46 Brown & Root, 43 Brownell, Dr. R. C., 125 BTNEP Management Conference, 170 Building a Resilient Energy Gulf Coast, 214 Burn’s Point, La., 43 Burton, Rejane “Johnnie,” 204 Bush, George H. W., 168, 171 Bush, George W., 195 Caddo Lake, La., 29; oil discovery, 17; oil operations , 30 Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion Project, 158, 175–76 Cahoon, Donald, 159; Causes of Wetland Loss in the Coastal Central Gulf of Mexico, 151 Caillou Island, La., 31; Texaco platform, 30 Cajuns, 6, 10, 58, 144, 194; in Black Bayou, 27; dialect, 53; Kammer study, 33; land sales, 52; in oil and gas industry, 35, 51–52; seafood industry, 56; trapping industry, 56 Calcasieu Ship Channel, 76 Caldwell, Jack, 186, 188–89, 193 California Company (Calco), 39; oyster bed damages, 56 Callais, Ronald, 203 Calogero, Chief Justice Pascal F., Jr., 212 Cameron Parish, La., 75; oil production, 18 canals: access (“rig cuts”), 3, 28, 151; backfill method, 67, 90–91, 98, 122, 148–49, 153, 162, 172, 174, 178; beneficial use, 224; Blue Water project, 96–98; directional drilling technique, 155; dredging 4, 20–21, 24–25, 28, 31, 36, 41, 47, 131–32, 170; ecological impacts, 54, 58, 117–18, 122; flotation canal method, 42, 61, 82, 90, 98, 122, 124, 152–53; LOOP, 122; Shell Mars pipeline, 178–79; method improvement, 154–55, 178–79; Muskrat Line, 62, 65–68; natural back- filling, 68; oil field canal debate, 131, 136, 146–59, 173, 183, 206, 211; plugs, 55, 59–60, 62, 64, 68–69, 82, 98, 126, 130, 213–14; preoil industry, 6; push-access method, 66, 90, 122, 124, 126, 128, 152...