Gov. Jeff Landry's administration seems far more eager to cancel wetlands restoration projects than to say what should be done instead.

For the second time this year, the administration on Thursday canceled a Mississippi River diversion program, this time the Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion on the river's east bank, across from Delacroix. In July, the state canceled the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion on the west bank of the river near Myrtle Grove.

The state already had spent some $619 million on Mid-Barataria and some $70 million on Mid-Breton. The former was slated to cost a total of $3 billion, while Gordon Dove, chairman of the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, said the latter's cost had grown from an estimated $800 million to $1.8 billion.

Both projects had attr

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