Advocates for Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion to speak during Coastal Day at the Capitol
During Coastal Day at the Capitol, advocates will come together for a news conference at 3 p.m. to ask state leaders to proceed with the restoration project.
Among the speakers who are scheduled to attend are Anne Milling, founder of Women of the Storm, Troy Dubois, Louisiana Ducks Unlimited State Chairman, Reverend Ernest Dison, Sr., senior pastor of New Orleans's St. Paul Church of God in Christ and Simone Maloz, campaign director of Restore the Mississippi River Delta.
'Speakers will underscore the urgent need to proceed and the irreversible harm that could result from stopping this multibillion-dollar investment in the state's future,' according to advocates with Restore the Mississippi River Delta.
Louisiana First News will livestream the news conference in the video player above.
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