Yes, but shouldn’t they have started a couple weeks ago already?
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.
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