John Neely Kennedy on Environment

2004 former Democratic Senate Challenger (LA)

$14B to rebuild America's coastline

This is a beautiful state, but it's disappearing before our eyes. We lose a football field of land to open water every 30 minutes [via coastal erosion]. We've lost 1900 square miles of our wetlands and coastline since 1932, an area the size of Rhode Island. We're projected to lose another 700 square miles in the next 50 years.

It will cost $14 billion over 10 years to rebuild America's coastline. That's a little over two years worth of royalties that the federal government collects from drilling off our coast, which is made possible by Louisiana's infrastructure. It's time we demand our fair share of this money to rebuild our coastline and restore our wetlands. No more meetings. No more committees. No more task forces. No more begging for crumbs. This would not be happening in California or Florida or New Jersey, because their citizens would not tolerate it. We should not either.

Source: Campaign website, www.johnkennedy.com, "Issues" Oct 20, 2004

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