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...Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to disband its emergency-housing program on Dec. 1 for those still scattered to the four winds. Members of Congress appear to be tired of hearing about the needs of evacuees, the lives lost and the vestiges of formerly thriving communities along the devastated Gulf Coast. Legislators are beginning to turn their attention elsewhere, while hurricane exiles wait for a sign that it is safe to go home again. But we are all suffering from Katrina fatigue. Everyone in my family and my hometown of New Orleans is living...
...weeks ago Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco called upon me to serve on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I accepted. We are now working urgently with President George W. Bush, the Louisiana congressional delegation, state and local leaders, Mayor Ray Nagin and parish officials to rebuild the Gulf Coast communities in a way that will give people the confidence to return. That will require a strong hurricane-protection system of safe levees and coastal wetlands, updated building codes so people can reconstruct with a sense of security, business incentives that will create opportunity, and school reforms that will draw people home...
...know I speak for the millions of Americans from Louisiana, Mississippi and the other Gulf Coast states when I say we are determined to rebuild our coastal communities down home. We are good people. We add a lot to the life of the nation. We are counting on you not to forget us now that the cameras have moved...
That's where Van Dyke believes the world's next great oil field lies. He is now the largest deepwater license holder in Africa, with 20 million acres under license, an area equivalent to 70% of the Gulf of Mexico's deepwater fields. He believes that the region could hold as much as 100 billion bbl., equal to the reserves of such oil powers as Iran or Kuwait. Now wealthy partners are lining up to pay the cost of drilling exploratory wells, which runs into the tens of millions per try. "The Chinese and Indians, they're the ones that...
...inclined to find the heroes of the Katrina story: ?The first responders, the victims themselves and the media without whom America would not have learned of their plight.? And, she said, General Russel Honore, who took charge of the rescue effort and restored hope to the people of the Gulf Coast...