Quotes by Robert Twilley

“New Orleans wont be safe from another storm like Katrina until we restore this hurricane buffer.”

“We understand the problem. Now lets fix it.”

“But protecting New Orleans will take a lot more than $2 billion.”

“Wetland loss was part of the process, but it was always accompanied by wetland gain.”

“By the early 1970s, we knew the diagnostics of how the system was changing.”

“Nobody pretends to think that that $2 billion is enough for the task at hand.”

“The people arent moving toward the coast, the coast is moving toward the people. People have been put in harms way for the economic interest of the rest of the nation.”

“Weve been wasting the river, particularly the sediment, directing it offshore. The Corps of Engineers from the New Orleans District Office dredges more river sediment than any other district in the United States. ... The problem is, we dont put it [sediments] where its needed. We should pipe it across the landscape, putting it into regions where we can build wetlands.”

“This is one of the most industrialized, highly engineered delta systems in the world.”