SOWL since 1974 has been fighting Louisiana politicians, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Levee Districts, and their corporate masters from developing wetlands into low lying areas extremely susceptible to hurricane tidal surges.
In the 70's-80's SOWL was a Voice of the Wetlands against the Eden Isle and Oak Harbor Subdivisions constructed over 5,200 acres of wetlands on the North Shore of Lake Pontchtrain, St. Tammany Parish, Slidell, Louisiana. SOWL lost this litigation, and thousands of homeowners were wiped out from the flood waters of Katrina.
SOWL was a Voice of the Wetlands against the Corps' and Orleans Levee District plans for their bogus Lake Pontchtrain and Vicinity Hurricane Barrier Project, which under guise of hurricane protection was actually going to destroy 28,000 acres of New Orleans east wetlands into the Orlandia Subdivision. SOWL won this litigation and saved on August 29,2005 over 60,000 future homes and over 100,000 families from flooding as a result of the Corps' diastrous Mississippi River Gulf Outlet(MR-GO). The September 28, 2005 Government Accountability Office(GAO) report stated 'if the barriers had been constructed the flooding in New Orleans would have been worst."
SOWL has always been a Voice of the Wetlands against Shell and its greasy allies from walking away from their obligation to remedy the coastal erosion caused by their 10,000 miles of oil company canals and navigational channels. SOWL in 1980's filed suit against Corps for refusing to conduct an Environmental Impact Study under the National Environmental Policy Act(NEPA) before issuing permis for oil canals.SOWL lost this litigation and in 2005, thousands of Louisiana citizens in St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Terrebonne, and Lafourche Parishes were flooded by Hurricanes Katrina-Rita as a result of oil canal erosion.
In the 70's, 80's, 90's, SOWL was a Voice of the Wetlands against Governors Edwin Edwards, Mike Foster, Kathleen Blanco, La. State Attorney General William Guste, Reps. F Edward Hebert, Bob Livingston, Billy Tauzin, US Senators Russell Long, John Breaux, Directors of Orleans Levee District Guy LeMieux and Robert Harvey, St, Tammany Parish Council and their President Kevin Davis ad nauseam.
In 2008, SOWL is a Voice of the Wetlands against Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Attorney General Charled Foti, US Senators Mary Landrieu- David Vitter, Congressman Charlie Melancon, Terrebonne Lafourche Levee District Commanders Windell Curole-Jerome Zeringue ad nauseam. They're all pushing for the 11 billion dollar Pork Barrel Morganza to Gulf of Mexico "Leaky Levee" scam.
SOWL is a Voice of the Wetlands against Shell's America's Wetlands spearheaded by its chairman R King Milling taking over as chairman of Coastal Protection Restoration Authority(CPRA) of Louisiana, and pushing an oil company propaganda campaign thru the coastal-political bowels of Louisiana. And so it goes