Posted on 07/15/2010 1:28:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Gov. Bobby Jindal announced his "Agenda for Revitalizing Coastal Louisiana" on Wednesday, outlining four priority initiatives aimed at restoring fragile wetlands and salvaging the coastal economy.
The governor called for the implementation of a comprehensive coastal restoration plan, a certification process to reopen waters for commercial and recreational fishing, an end to the deepwater drilling moratorium and accountability on the part of BP in paying for the full restoration of Louisiana's affected ecosystem.
35 0 15 Share Drawing upon the warlike rhetoric that has inflected his public entreaties to BP and the federal government of late, Jindal stressed a need to eliminate bureaucratic red tape and quickly implement measures that would protect the state's environmental and economic interests. He was joined by coastal parish presidents, who voiced their support for the agenda.
The state is requesting $9 billion for coastal restoration, freshwater diversion and flood-protection projects, most authorized by Congress in 2007 under the Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Plan, be made available as soon as possible. Despite the state's prior commitment of several hundred million dollars, those projects have been stalled because the federal government has yet to provide its share of the financing, Jindal said.
To secure the necessary money, the state is seeking to tap into $250 million of the money Congress previously appropriated for mitigation funds corresponding with post-Katrina hurricane-protection repairs. The money is meant to cover environmental damage caused by the reconstruction of the levee system around New Orleans.
Louisiana is also requesting an immediate investment from BP to pay for coastal wetlands and recovery initiatives as dictated by the natural resource damage assessment process that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration developed in the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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careful, gov. jindal. obama/holder will drag you into federal court for intruding on federal authority that he refuses to exercise, also.
Some leadership in the Gulf would have been nice...instead of waiting all these weeks for a clear thinking EXECUTIVE to take charge instead of a community organizer, the EPA and ships of fools...
It would have nice but I’d kinda’ presume it was stalled intentionally to promote Obam’s socialist agenda.
It’s almost a board game like Monopoly in reverse.
These people are as evil as they come.
“It would have nice but I’d kinda’ presume it was stalled intentionally to promote Obam’s socialist agenda.”
You know...I bet you are absolutely right...
Let me present my plan for the oil clean up:
Wait 5 years, nature will take care of it.
Instead, spend your energy on building more fishing boats, getting out there and drilling profitable wells, and just living life.
This was not the first big spill ever to come along.
Educate yourself by reading about past spills and you can avoid being taken in by hucksers of any political stripe on this.
Let me present my plan for the oil clean up:
Wait 5 years, nature will take care of it.
Instead, spend your energy on building more fishing boats, getting out there and drilling profitable wells, and just living life.
This was not the first big spill ever to come along.
Educate yourself by reading about past spills and you can avoid being taken in by hucksers of any political stripe on this.
While you are right as far as what nature would do in 5 years... The costal area economy can not handle that plan. We need ways to assure there will be no new oil on the beaches and then we need a massive PR campaign to undo the public image damage. If not many towns and small business that rely in tourism will be devistated. At a minimum it is good that it LOOKS like he is doing a lot. Because the perception will help.
The “Public” won’t remember that there was an oil spill by next spring. Some starlet’s ex with release thyeir sex tapes, or some Reality show will be in full swing.
Skip the PR in that vein.
You could always just go out and film semi dressed drunken college kids being stupid at the beach and put it up on YouTube. That costs nothing and brings in all the bratty hedonists.
They should build diversion weir dams in the lower Mississippi ship channel and release fresh water down into the wetlands area to flush out the oil and deliver silt to the region to help expand the wetlands themselves.
I read the daily flow of the Mississippi is many times larger than the total flow of oil since the explosion occurred.
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