Posted on 05/23/2010 9:15:40 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
With oil pushing at least 12 miles into Louisiana's marshes and two major pelican rookeries now coated in crude, Gov. Bobby Jindal says the state is working on chain of sand berms that would skirt the state's coastline.
Jindal visited one of the affected nesting grounds Sunday. Jindal and officials from several coastal parishes say the berms would close the door on the oil still pouring from a deepwater gusher about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast.
The berms would be made with sandbags. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also is considering a broader plan that would use dredging to build sand berms across more of the barrier islands.
(Excerpt) Read more at wwl.com ...
WHy the hell hasn’t he built them already?
As it should be.
Jindal’s actions in the coming weeks may do a lot to erase the perception that he’s not ready for prime time.
Bobby Jindal (R) said the state will not wait for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil
The governor said he has been forced to protect Louisiana without the approval of the Army Corps of Engineers, which is weighing the ecological impact of the construction of more sand booms.
Example of a “can do” governor as opposed to the then governor of Louisiana during Katrina, Kathleen Blanco.
as opposed to the shoreline being drenched in oil?
Yes, but shouldn’t they have started a couple weeks ago already?
The one thing the people of Louisiana should have learned from Katrina is that you can not sit on your butt and wait for the Federal or State government to come save you.
He still has to follow some procedure. He can’t just run roughshod over the law. Let the Feds show how incompetent and useless they are, then (as he did) state that you can’t wait any longer for them to get their act together.
It seems to me that it's his state, and thus he can do whatever he feels like doing in the best interest of his state.
I think they were told (promised) they were getting help from the Feds which of course have yet to act.
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Jindal tired of waiting for approval, to build sand booms
“It is clear the resources needed to protect our coast are still not here,” Gov. Jindal said. “Oil sits and waits for cleanup, and every day that it waits for cleanup more of our marsh dies.”
Louisiana state and parish officials on Sunday demanded the federal government approve their plans to dredge up walls of sand to protect the state’s delicate inland estuaries from the oil spill. They want to use dredges to close channels between the Gulf and the coastal estuaries.
The U.S. Coast Guard and BP failed to make decisions quickly and delayed the deployment of clean-up equipment, said Governor Bobby Jindal.
I think we can fairly say they are IDIOTS...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is studying the environmental impacts from the emergency barrier proposal. The Corps didn’t immediately respond to e-mails and telephone messages.
The U.S. Coast Guard and BP were slow to make decisions and delayed supplying necessary clean-up equipment even as oil washes onto the state’s fragile marshland, Governor Bobby Jindal said.
Jindal said he was “frustrated” by the slow pace and said the delays were “unacceptable.” He called for the Coast Guard to delegate more authority to local leaders to protect their own parishes.
In one example of delay, parish presidents had put in an urgent request to the Coast Guard on May 3 for 5 million feet (1.5 million meters) of hard boom to stop oil before it hits the coast but so far only around 800,000 feet had been supplied, Jindal said.
He also raised the pressure on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to grant permission for the construction of a series of sand levees and said he was “passionate” about the issue.
“Silence on this plan is the equivalent of saying: ‘we will just clean it (oil) out of the wetlands,’” he said, arguing that the dangers of inaction were far greater than possible risks of associated with construction.
(SO CALLED) Experts on the coast including conservationists and academics have deep doubts about the plan, arguing it would take too long to implement and could alter the Mississippi River delta’s balance between fresh and salt water.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64M2L220100524?type=politicsNews
BUMP
I guess they need to know exactly how much worse the oil spill effects would be than the sand bagging effects. If Jindal could wait a couple months, the study’ll be in.
Of course what is obvious is by then it will be to late.
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