Blame Game: Greenies Top The List?

A Louisiana wetlands advocacy group may have the biggest share of responsibility for the destruction of New Orleans. Ironically, the pro-green LATimes reports the story:

In the wake of Hurricane Betsy 40 years ago, Congress approved a massive hurricane barrier to protect New Orleans from storm surges that could inundate the city.

But the project, signed into law by President Johnson, was derailed in 1977 by an environmental lawsuit. Now the question is: Could that barrier have protected New Orleans from the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina?

The answer, according to the Corps of Engineers, is that if the barrier had been built, NOLA would not be flooded today. After all, the Netherlands uses similar barriers to protect the lowlands from North Sea surges.

True to its green core, the LAT waited until the very last paragraph to name the culprits, a group called Save Our Wetlands. Original. Their dank and swampy background page, which is virtually unreadable, like reading through thick Spanish moss, proclaims: While politicians talk, SOWL sues!

We can only hope that all their evidence, briefs and strategy docs are now a foul glob of sewage- and oil-soaked toxicity at the bottom of the newly formed Lake New Orleans.

Will environmental groups learn a lesson from this? Of course not. They didn't after their wildnerness policies lead to horrible fires, or their runoff control policies led to the spread of the West Nile virus. They won't learn from this.

h/t Prof. Bainbridge via Michelle Malkin