Louisiana cancels another major coastal restoration project

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Louisiana cancels the $1.8 billion Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion project.

Project aimed to restore dying coastal marshes in Breton Sound.

Critics warn cancellation threatens long-term sustainability of other coastal restoration efforts.

State has over $8 billion allocated for coastal restoration from Deepwater Horizon settlement.

Louisiana officials have canceled another major coastal restoration project — the Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish .

Gordon Dove, chairman of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, confirmed to WVUE-TV Fox 8 Wednesday that the state will not continue the Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion. The project would have channeled fresh water and sediment from the Mississippi River near Will