Comments on: Dutch Counter-Flood Tech

By: labreece

labreece — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:51:13 +0000

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By: labreece

labreece — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:50:47 +0000

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By: Niels

Niels — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:58:59 +0000

Check out http://www.safecoast.org and find out that the coastal managers in the North Sea region are already thinking about the future. Believe me: by only constructing dams and dikes we won’t help ourselves in the 21st century…

By: Maarten

Maarten — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:53:39 +0000

A project like the Dutch Delta works, which costed them about $8 billion dollars in the period of 1953 to 1997, is surely going to cost about triple that to apply similar engineering to Louisiana and Missisippi to protect New Orleans. Probably $24 billion or maybe even more.
Is it worth it? Its worth every dime in my opinion. We spent over $300 billion in the last 3 years on the war in Iraq alone, we surely can come up with 10% of that money in about 10 times the amount of time (it took the Dutch more then 30 years) to protect our own citizens from the irreversable effects of Global Warming.
Yes, bring on the Dutch to design the engineering. And bring on the workers from LA and MS to build it! We need Dutch engineering, Federal money, and Local employment to get this done.

By: pst314

pst314 — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:21:21 +0000

Byron Skinner: The Article was about flood-control technology. Got anything to add to that, or do you prefer to turn every discussion into an anti-Bush screed?
For myself, I’d prefer to learn about the technology, especially how New Orleans’ situation differs from the Netherlands’ and how this affects the technological options.

By: J

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:09:27 +0000

I find it has become very easy for Americans to speak out against the government in times like these; however, where were all of you years ago… hindsight is ALWAYS 20:20. True it would have been far cheaper to fix it on th front end but which project do you choose. This country is like an old house, fix which evil first? Well if we knew the answer to that, this would be a perfect world. Instead of spending so much energy on bashing the lack of action, get out there and start it yourself. A hurricane can be traced back to the beat of one butterfly’s wings.

By: Mez

Mez — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:43:37 +0000

… and who is going to be paid a lot of that $US 24 billion?
(Probably feeling just a bit too far bitter & twisted, but sometimes I wonder just how far is too far.)