Gulf Restoration Network

United for a Healthy Gulf

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Do you like coffee? Need that cup of morning fuel to get you going? Chances are good that your morning routine relies on goods shipped through New Orleans. Maybe you don't like coffee, what about seafood? Does your record collection have any jazz or rock or funk or zydeco? Do you ever drive or ride in a car? Did you notice how oil prices jumped when Hurricane Dean started heading for the Gulf? Know someone affected by Hurricane Katrina? Appreciate the birds that fly through your yard in the spring?

From seafood to shipping, energy to our cultural heritage: It turns out, everyone is intimately connected to America's wetland in Louisiana, the Gulf Coast and the city of New Orleans. As Louisiana continues to lose a football field's worth of wetlands every 45 minutes - the time to act is now!

Please take a moment to support a sustainable response to Hurricane Katrina by filling out the form below to send off an email to your members of Congress and the President. Personalizing the first few lines will increase your impact.

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July 30, 2010

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In the four years since Hurricane Katrina, and then Hurricane Rita, ravaged New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, Congress has stepped up to fund the immediate repairs to Louisiana's levee system and started the process to develop a plan for category 5 protection. However, Louisiana still has not received the necessary authorization to start large scale restoration of our coastal wetlands, and the Army Corps of Engineers continues to allow destruction of wetlands in Mississippi and Louisiana.

To revitalize New Orleans and other affected communities will take a genuine commitment to the future. To secure the natural bounty of coastal Louisana -America's wetland- and the Mississippi Gulf Coast as part of our legacy to future generations will take a commitment to protecting and restoring America's greatest wetland treasures. This Administration and this Congress have a responsibility to act to save these treasures and the time to make that commitment is now.

At the heart of the revitalization effort and the heart of your federal responsibility is a commitment to three things:

1. Honest and effective storm protection, up to a Category 5 level, for New Orleans and other population centers.
2. Coastal wetlands restoration and conservation
3. A willingness to provide oversight and demand accountability for the US Army Corps of Engineers and their critical yet troubling role which they must play in protecting and restoring our coast and communities.

These pieces are inextricably tied together, and they are key responsibilities of the federal government. Each day that passes without a commitment to the survival and prosperity of New Orleans, south Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast compounds and prolongs this tragedy. The time to act is now.

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