Coastal restoration could get more funding from possible ballot measure KQKI News [Video]

By Steve Wilson | The Center Square – March 29, 2024

(The Center Square) – A ballot measure could decide whether federal royalties on alternative energy production such as offshore wind would be sent to Louisiana’s coastal restoration fund.

House Bill 300, sponsored by Rep. Joseph Orgeron, R-Cut Off, would place a constitutional amendment on the ballot to redirect federal revenues from “generated from Outer Continental Shelf alternative or renewable energy production sources, including wind energy, solar energy, tidal energy, wave energy, geothermal energy, and other alternative or renewable energy production or sources.”

The bill is scheduled to be taken up by the House on Tuesday which is lawmakers’ first day back after Easter. Orgeron brought a similar bill last year that passed the House unanimously but died in the Senate.

Orgeron told the House Committee on Appropriations on March 19 that if the change isn’t made, 25% of any …