Louisiana begs for more booms as oil slick laps coastal islands

[unhappycamper]

Louisiana begs for more booms as oil slick laps coastal islands
AFP
Published: Saturday May 8, 2010

Louisiana begged for more protective booms and urged the federal government not to repeat the mistakes of Hurricane Katrina Friday as a massive oil slick lapped coastal islands.

More than two weeks after a BP-leased rig sank spectacularly 50 miles offshore and started hemorrhaging an estimated 200,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico on April 22, vast swaths of the US coast remain unprotected.

High winds and rough seas bear some of the blame, but Governor Bobby Jindal said the problem now is a lack of the resources needed to avert disaster.

"We need more booms to keep this oil out of our fragile wetlands," Jindal said at a press conference in the remote port of Hopedale.

"It's so important to have those first lines of defense in place," he said.



unhappycamper comment: ". . . not to repeat the mistakes of Hurricane Katrina"? Which mistakes might that be? Blackwater? Dead black people floating around? Ohhh, and



"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" --> http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/multimedia/bushism_brownie.mp3

Come on guys, you can do better than that.

[salguine]

1. Surely they don't want them from the evil Federal government?

[AlinPA]

2. Just like that asshole to blame it on the federal government.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. "It's so important to have those first lines of defense in place,"

Yeah the first line of defense would have been stiff regulations. The kind the Republican party fights against every day tooth and claw.

The second line of defense would have been a blowout preventer, something that should have been required by law.

The third line of defense should have been a second blowout preventer in case the first one failed.

[madmax]

4. 'Do you miss me yet?'

No fuckwad you left enough behind - the gifts that just keep on giving.