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Andy Taggart, Republican candidate for Attorney General, has called for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Louisiana immediately to reverse their decision, and to include the State of Mississippi in all decision-making, in the wake of the opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway for the second time this year. “The consequences of that decision are devastating to the ecology and economy of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and the huge infusion of freshwater and sediment have created an imbalance in salinity that is affecting oyster
beds and other wildlife,” Taggart said.
“The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi should immediately seek injunctive relief against the release at Bonnet Carre, and permanent relief in the form of direct involvement in any future decisions for the management of that spillway. The flooding conditions on the Mississippi River are overwhelming and must be dealt with in an effective and scientifically sound manner. But just as we have seen with the mismanagement by the Corps of Engineers of the backwater control structures in the Lower Delta, causing historic backwater flooding on the Mississippi side of the River, political decisions that result in one state benefiting at the expense of a neighboring state are not based in science, but are based in favoritism. The federal government should be ashamed.”
“Our State cannot let the status quo continue unchallenged, and our State’s citizens, our livelihoods, our homes and the ecology of our State’s waters should not be subjected to unscientific decisions in which no Mississippian was allowed to be involved.”
