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Oil canals in National Preserve in Louisiana to be filled
2016-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: In the heyday of oil exploration on Louisiana's coast after World War II, companies dug about 10,000 miles of canals as straight as Kansas highways through a natural world that's unraveling today - due, in part, to those canals. Soon, about 16.5 miles of canals are to be filled in the Barataria Preserve - making a small dent in a massive problem. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Monday toured water plant-choked canals in the alligator-and-bird preserve by airboat and called the work crucial;...
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