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Tuesday evening the first container ship docked at the Port of New Orleans and began unloading. This beat the Port's predicted reopening by six months. Port officials credited the success to cooperation between federal agencies, Port staff, the dockworkers' union and state police. They now say the Port will be operating at 80 percent of normal within three months. That's good news for Midwest grain farmers who will soon be harvesting and exporting their crops.
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Nagin said the "re-population" of the city would start Monday in Algiers, a Creole-influenced neighborhood across the Mississippi River from the French Quarter. The city's Uptown section, which includes the Garden District's leafy streets and antebellum mansions, will reopen in stages next Wednesday and Friday.
The French Quarter will follow on Sept. 26.
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Offshore energy companies will have the ability to produce at about 90 percent of pre-storm oil and gas output in 30 to 40 days, said Johnnie Burton, director of the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service.
U.S. crude oil prices fell more than $1 to below $64 a barrel on Friday on news that Katrina did not cause major damage to underwater pipelines in the Gulf.
This is going to be fixed and is going to better then it was before. I just hope that the monies that are going down there to help will truly be used with a conservaitve ideology. Let us pray.
