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Pardee Resources Company: Judge Grants Summary Judgment Motion in Kings Dome Case
On June 25, 2009 Judge Fallin of the Louisiana Second Judicial District Court for the Parish of Bienville signed an order granting Pardee's and El Paso's motions for summary judgment in the Kings Dome case thereby dismissing the matter and ruling as a matter of law that Pardee's mineral servitude had been maintained by good faith operations. The Indigo and Crabapple plaintiffs can appeal this decision to the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeals. We will continue to keep you advised of significant developments in this case.
AmeriCall Exhibits at Inaugural Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Readiness & Emergency Management Technology Expo
AmeriCall was the only call center invited to attend the recent inaugural Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Readiness & Emergency Management Technology Expo 2009 in New Orleans. AmeriCall shared information about emergency response services with attendees.
Commitment to Writing Brings $50,000 Gift of Freedom to New Orleans Woman
A Room of Her Own Foundation's fifth $50,000 Gift of Freedom is awarded to Barb Johnson, a carpenter-turned-writer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Soon after Johnson entered The University of New Orleans' MFA program, Hurricane Katrina hit, wiping out her carpentry business and livelihood. For a while after that she lived on her apartment's balcony in the evacuated city and continued to write. Her stories garnered numerous awards and a book contract by the time of her graduation in May, 2008.
Educational Assistance By Argosy University
(Chicago - September 6, 2005) Argosy University announced today that it will assist students from universities in New Orleans, southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama universities, which were closed for the foreseeable future due to the devastation caused by Hurricane "Katrina."
New Orleans Chosen as First Satellite City to Participate in New Nationwide Solar Community Purchasing Program -- One Block off the Grid Taps South Co
Today, One Block off the Grid (1BOG), the nation's top consumer advocacy group for residential renewable energy, and New Orleans-based South Coast Solar, Louisiana's largest solar energy company, announced that the Metro New Orleans area will be the program's first official city outside of California for its groundbreaking new solar community purchasing program. The program, which will enable Louisiana homeowners to organize as a community and buy solar in bulk at a significantly cheaper rate, was started in June of 2008 in San Francisco, CA, and has since been hailed as a major success.
Industrial Directory Reports Louisiana Lost 3,300 Manufacturing Jobs, 101 Plants
Industrial employment in Louisiana fell 1.7% over the past twelve months according to the 2009 Louisiana Manufacturers Register, an industrial guide published annually by Manufacturers' News, Inc. (MNI) Evanston, IL. MNI reports Louisiana lost 3,385 industrial jobs and 101 manufacturers between April 2008 and April 2009, the first loss MNI reported for Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina devastated the state's industrial sector in 2005.
St. Bakhita Opens in Marrero
Providence Community Housing, Enterprise Community Investment (Enterprise) and CLB Porter, LLC today joined residents and local officials to celebrate the grand opening of St. Bakhita Apartments in Marrero, La., the first green and affordable rental property in Jefferson Parish. Named after the Sudanese native, kidnapped into slavery, canonized as a saint, "Bakhita" means "fortunate one," and for the Westbank community that surrounds the apartments, these energy-efficient homes offer much needed post-Katrina housing opportunities and affordable rental options.
GEI Consultants' Principal Lee Wooten Co-Leads Team of Engineers to Assess New Orleans Levee Performance Following Hurricane Gustav
GEI Consultants, Inc., a national water resources, geotechnical, environmental and ecological science and engineering firm, announced today that firm Principal R. Lee Wooten, P.E., a civil engineer with geotechnical concentration, recently co-lead a team of civil engineers to New Orleans, Louisiana to assess levee performance following Hurricane Gustav. Wooten was also the principal author of the group's report, "Reconnaissance of the New Orleans Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System after Hurricane Gustav," which was published in February 2009.
In Louisiana, Celebrating Earth by Saving It
The Conservation Fund, State of Louisiana and the Entergy Charitable Foundation join forces to protect 1,700 acres at Lake Pontchartrain.
Americas Watchdog Discovers Possibly Toxic Chinese Dry Wall In New Orleans
Americas Watchdog & its Homeowners Consumer Center are leading a national investigation into potentially toxic Chinese dry wall used in new home, condominium, town home & some commercial developments since 2001. The potentially toxic Chinese dry wall has been associated with health issues, air conditioning coil & electrical corrosion in homes remodeled after Hurricane Katrina. According to the group, "We have now heard from homeowners in New Orleans, and we are positive we will find hundreds, if not thousands more in In Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and other Parishes in Southeast Louisiana. If a homeowner in Louisiana and has had a sulfur, or rotten egg smell, and has also had air conditioning coil corrosion, and or fa...
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