General DNR News
September Lease Sale Reported by State Mineral Board
The State Mineral Board conducted a Lease Sale September 10, 2003, at 10 a.m. in the Conservation & Mineral Resources Hearing Room located in the LaSalle Office Building in Baton Rouge. Below are the preliminary results of the Lease Sale and 2003-2004 Fiscal Year totals.
Project on Lake Verret to start soon
A groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of a boat landing at Lake Verret near Napoleonville will be held on Friday, Sept. 5, 2003 at 9:30 a.m. The Attakapas Boat Landing project is jointly sponsored by the state Department of Natural Resources’ Atchafalaya Basin Program (ABP), Assumption Parish, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Contract let to create land in south La.
NEW ORLEANS – Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., Oak Brook, Ill., has been awarded a contract to begin a precedent-setting project to restore south Louisiana wetlands through diversion of Mississippi River sediment and water.
Nigerian officials to visit DNR on Thursday
The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’ Office of Conservation will host a presentation for a small group of engineers and oil regulators of the Nigerian Department of Petroleum Resources.
State Mineral Board Releases August Figures
Members of the Louisiana Mineral Board elected new officers for the upcoming year at its August meeting. David "Hal" Stiel, III of Franklin was named chairman of the state Mineral Board and Tom Arnold, Jr. of Harvey was elected vice-chairman. Stiel was appointed to the Mineral Board in 1996 while Arnold was appointed in 1997 by Governor Foster.
America’s WETLAND Summit in Lake Charles will focus on Culture
Civic leaders will gather for a summit to focus on the issue of coastal land loss and the effect it has on Louisiana communities, culture, music, art, and its people. The summit is being sponsored primarily by the Governor’s Office of Coastal Activities.
Holly Beach and other coastal projects shown today
Holly Beach, LA - Cameron Parish provided the blue skies, sandy beach, and a large welcoming committee today for U. S. Senator John Breaux as he presided over the dedication of several coastal restoration projects at Holly Beach in southwest Louisiana. Federal, state, and local officials sponsored the ceremony to celebrate the largest shoreline protection project completed since the start of the Breaux Act (or CWPPRA) program in 1990.
LaHouse Groundbreaking in July 2003
LA Department of Natural Resources Secretary Jack Caldwell was honored at a groundbreaking ceremony held this July by the Louisiana State University AgCenter for the construction of the Louisiana House
MMS and Louisiana launch ‘Royalty-in-Kind’ Pilot
A new chapter in Federal-State cooperation began this month when the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service awarded sales contracts for royalty volumes of crude oil produced from certain Federal offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico.