American energy, imperiled coast [electronic resource] : oil and gas development in Louisiana's wetlands / Jason P. Theriot.
Material type: TextSeries: The natural world of the Gulf South | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9780807155189
- 0807155187
- 333.8/2309763 23
- GE155.L8 T44 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An energy landscape emerges: early coastal oil and gas development -- Postwar pipelines span the coast: building the three hundred-mile Muskrat line -- Offshore expansion and environmental reform: the Blue Water pipeline system -- America's first offshore oil port: LOOP and the science of wetland ecology -- The coastal erosion crisis: wetland loss and the oil field canal debate -- The coastal restoration campaign: from the Breaux Act to Coast 2050 -- America's energy coast: redefining restoration in the Gulf -- Conclusion: a sustainable energy coast for the twenty-first century.
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