Following the annual press briefing to announce Flood Protection and Hurricane Preparedness for the Greater New Orleans Region, the Business Council of Greater New Orleans and the River Region, which has coordinated the hurricane briefing for the past three years, concluded the presentation with a forceful appeal to the federal government to take immediate action on Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Merritt Lane, president and CEO of Canal Barge and chairman of the Business Council’s Task Force on Flood Safety, explained, “The Joint Communication Advisory Committee (JCAC) is a live example of the Business Council’s bringing disparate agencies together for the common good. The same kind of spirit of collaboration is what we, as the Business Council, are advocating today.”