Louisiana and Scientists Spar Over How to Stop Oil

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Louisiana and Scientists Spar Over How to Stop Oil
By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF
Published: July 6, 2010
New York Times

With oil hitting Barataria Bay, a vast estuary in southeast Louisiana that boasts one of the most productive fisheries in the country, local parish officials hatched a plan in May to save the fragile ecosystem: they would build rock dikes across several major tidal inlets between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico to block and then capture the oil.

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