With SLFPA-E Nomination, Fate of Lawsuit and Levees Hangs in the Balance

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge | By Amy Jeffries

Published October 3, 2014 at 3:12 AM CDT

The nominating committee for the South East Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East has made its selection to fill a slot on the levee board. They voted 7-3 a week ago to renominate Paul Kemp — a geologist in the Coastal Ecology Institute at LSU — who’s current term is expiring.

The ball is back in Gov. Jindal’s court — he can accept or reject Kemp’s nomination or ask the state Senate to consider it — and the fate of the levee board’s lawsuit against oil and gas companies over damage to coastal wetlands hangs in the balance.

Bob Marshall, reporter with The Lens in New Orleans, has been following all this.

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Amy Jeffries

Amy started her career in public radio at WNPR in Hartford, CT more than a decade ago. NPR flew her in to Baton Rouge to help WRKF cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while she was still based in the North. Here she found her journalistic calling.

With SLFPA-E Nomination, Fate of Lawsuit and Levees Hangs in the Balance

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