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the border thing is different. Jindal seems to be trying to position himself as a heroic little David in the face of a big bad federal Goliath (actually, Goliath's incarnation would be the COAST GUARD). However, there have been practical reasons for the delay. From this,
"many experts say it is not at all clear whether dredging companies could build up the barrier islands quickly enough to save the marshes. They are also concerned that the kind of sand berms envisioned in the plan might wash away quickly after a couple of storms, wasting scarce sand in the region."
They all definitely should have been on this long ago, but I dislike this cheap characterization.
As far as being ready for disaster, where has Jindal been all this time?
It would help if you knew the actual truth. As someone pointed out that ACTUALLY lives on the Gulf, this berm idea had been talked about for weeks but the government is dragging their feet with the permits. Jindahl is going forward because the WH is taking too long. So who's fault is it that they might not have enough time? This WH is acting like they WANT it to get worse. Remember Rahm saying "You never let a serious crisis go to waste"?
Jindal isn't waiting on the Fed to approve..he's moving forward to build berms to protect the coast as best they can.
Good for Jindal.
La. won't wait for federal OK to erect sand berms - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100523/ap_on_re_us/us_gulf_oil_spill_barriers - broken link)
"Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says the state is not waiting for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill."
Yea, you better wait for permission to erect a sand berm....
It would help if you knew the actual truth. As someone pointed out that ACTUALLY lives on the Gulf, this berm idea had been talked about for weeks but the government is dragging their feet with the permits. Jindahl is going forward because the WH is taking too long. So who's fault is it that they might not have enough time? This WH is acting like they WANT it to get worse. Remember Rahm saying "You never let a serious crisis go to waste"?
Go back and read the posts and links provided, this is addressed.
I was referring to your quote pertaining to clean-up:
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The law was designed to avoid the situation that followed the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, in which the government was left to clean up a private company’s mess and then had to sue the company to recover costs.
I was merely pointing out that this is much more than just a simple clean-up effort.
There are reasons why the WH has not embraced the idea of using sand berms. It's tempting to want to cheer lead for Jindal, or anyone who is calling for immediate action, but it's not so simple. The Coast Guard, BP executives, ecologists, the Army Corps of Engineers are not convinced that these berms would be helpful and they may compound the problem.
At any rate, there isn't much likelihood that these berms could be built in time, so it could be a loss of money, time and sand, that is in short supply and needed to restore the barrier islands, would be washed away.
I think Jindal sounded good yesterday but I don't think he honestly expressed the possible consequences of using sand berms, nor did he mention that even if the work was started today, it's doubtful they would be successful since they won't be completed in time.
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