WHy the hell hasn’t he built them already?
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.
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.