Swamp Saturday: I left for the Maurepas swamp one day back in 2016, hoping for a great sunrise - only to be met by fog and low clouds. I adjusted, setting up for a long exposure of this cypress tree trunk and its associated knees.
So I adjusted and created a moody long-exposure photo.
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#AirProducts has hired 25 #lobbyists ahead of #Louisiana’s legislative session. It appears they are gearing up to fight for their plan to store #carbon under #LakeMaurepas. I personally would like to see companies doing more to reduce their emissions, but at a minimum we need more #environmental analysis on the impact this would have before forging ahead with #CarbonSequestration.
On today’s episode of #BehindTheLens from #TheLensNOLA, a plan to store greenhouse gases under #LakeMaurepas is meeting pushback from local leaders. It’s good to see these kinds of moves being resisted and for us to have #LocalNews organizations shining a light on these efforts.
The whole episode is full of great reporting, but here’s a link starting at the Lake Maurepas story:
Reporter Nick Chrastil on the state’s backlog of inmates awaiting transfer to the state’s psychiatric hospital, Joshua Rosenberg on an ongoing Lake Maurepas project and Michael Isaac Stein how the city’s managed its federal COVID relief funds.
I’m honor of #WetlandWednesday here is an old cellphone shot of a #turtle and a #gator sharing a log on a sunny day.
This photo was taken during a #kayak trip out on Shell Bank Bayou, which connects old US 51 to #LakeMaurepas.
If I remember correctly, we didn’t make it all the way to the lake because the bayou gets narrow and shallow and the vegetation became a bit too much to trudge through. Maybe I should try again sometime…
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