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Louisiana cleaning up oil spill in Lafourche Parish
5 months, 1 week ago

Louisiana cleaning up oil spill in Lafourche Parish

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — A storage tank spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil in a southern Louisiana parish, threatening drinking water and wildlife as officials work to clean it up. The storage tank spilled Saturday morning southwest of New Orleans at a crude oil facility owned by the company Crescent Midstream. The spill of around 820 barrels of …

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Entergy: $86M in upgrades in part of Lafourche Parish
2 years, 9 months ago

Entergy: $86M in upgrades in part of Lafourche Parish

Associated Press  

— Louisiana’s largest power utility says it has completed $86 million in transmission system improvements in a small part of the wide area hit hard by Hurricane Ida. Entergy Louisiana said it has replaced about 80 steel structures with some that can withstand winds up to 150 miles per hour and improved about 7 miles of power lines in Lafourche …

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Teachers organize supply drive for Ida-impacted schools
3 years, 3 months ago

Teachers organize supply drive for Ida-impacted schools

Associated Press  

— Area teachers are helping after a Louisiana community’s only school had over a foot of water inside after Hurricane Ida struck last month. Levees, though elevated in recent years, breached and teachers from the neighboring community of Chackbay decided they had to help their colleagues at Bayou Bouef Elementary, just south of Lake Des Allemands in Lafourche Parish, KATC-TV …

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Flights resume, some power restored in New Orleans after Ida
3 years, 4 months ago

Flights resume, some power restored in New Orleans after Ida

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — Commercial flights resumed in New Orleans and power returned to parts of the business district Thursday, four days after Hurricane Ida slammed into the Gulf Coast, but electricity, drinking water and fuel remained scarce across much of a sweltering Louisiana. “This isn’t our first rodeo, but it’s our worst rodeo,” Kirt LeBouef said, wiping away tears as …

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Hurricane Ida Came Ashore In Louisiana But Now It's Affecting More States
3 years, 4 months ago

Hurricane Ida Came Ashore In Louisiana But Now It's Affecting More States

NPR  

Hurricane Ida Came Ashore In Louisiana But Now It's Affecting More States NPR's A Martínez talks to FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell about the extent of the storm's damage across the nation. And there's also significant infrastructure damage, several hundred thousand people without power, and it's still just shy of a million people without power. And so even when you get …

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