Posted on April 25, 2016
By Tegan Wendland, 89.9 wwno
With oil prices down, Louisiana has lost about 12,000 jobs in oil and gas since last year. Some of those oil and gas workers are finding new jobs in coastal restoration. That includes helping rebuild a chain of barrier islands to protect the coast. One of those state-funded projects is in Plaquemines Parish.
Way down south of New Orleans, along the Mississippi River near the town of Empire, Alicia Kanous unloads a shipping container. These are all supplies for offshore workers. They’re not drilling for oil, though many of them have done that kind of work. They’re rebuilding a barrier island called Shell Island.
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