The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: libertybele on December 01, 2022, 01:58:57 am
-
Climate change: US to pay $75m to relocate tribes facing flood threat
US President Joe Biden's administration will help fund the move of three tribal communities facing urgent threats from climate change.
The three tribes will receive $75m (£62m) divided equally between them, Mr Biden announced on Wednesday.
All are located along coastal areas and rivers in the states of Alaska and Washington.
The money will fund the move of key buildings and residential homes to higher ground, away from rising waters.
Mr Biden made the funding announcement at the White House during the Interior Department's Tribal Nations Summit.
In his remarks, he said the tribes receiving funding are "at risk of being washed away".
The money will help "move, in some cases, their entire communities back to safer ground".
Those receiving the funding are Newtok Village and the Native Village of Napakiak in southwest Alaska, and the Quinault Indian Nation, located on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula.
All three communities have either suffered land erosion or are at a growing risk of flooding. ...............
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63803689
-
Under what authority does brandon have all this money to give away? Was this part of one of those grab bag spending bills?
-
Under what authority does brandon have all this money to give away? Was this part of one of those grab bag spending bills?
Joe does and spends whatever he wants to and no one seems to question him.
-
Under what authority does brandon have all this money to give away? Was this part of one of those grab bag spending bills?
Damn good question, but here is another one, since when has our government moving Indians off their land ever been a good thing for the Indians?
-
Damn good question, but here is another one, since when has our government moving Indians off their land ever been a good thing for the Indians?
Good point.
-
What rising waters?
Have the Maldives been flooded out yet? Is Nome under threat?
If the Corps of Engineers would allow people to use methods of erosion control which have worked in the past, perhaps erosion would not be as much of a problem.
The seawalls I built as a young man are no longer permitted where I grew up, and those stopped erosion, so long as they remained intact.