Haley Barbour says he trusts Big Gub-Mint now

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.sunherald.com/2010/05/27/2216357/barbour-trusts-corps-of-engineers.html


Thursday, May. 27, 2010

Barbour trusts corps of engineers

By KAREN NELSON - [e-mail]

BILOXI — Gov. Haley Barbour and DMR Director Bill Walker said Thursday they trust the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers not to allow Louisiana to build any berm or sand barriers east of the mouth of Mississippi River that would cause oil to flow into Mississippi waters.

Desperate to protect miles of sensitive marsh at Louisiana’s southernmost regions, state officials there had asked the federal government for permission to ring the state’s southeastern shoreline with 86 miles of berm.

U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen on Thursday approved portions of the $350 million plan for the wall of sand meant to keep out the oil.

Allen said the state could move forward on the network of sand berms along the Chandeleur Islands and a string of barrier islands west of the Mississippi River.

There was concern that building a berm between the Chandeleurs and the marshes of eastern Plaquemines Parish could interfere with the natural flow of water in the Gulf, alter tides and end up driving oil east into the Mississippi Sound.

[Jennicut]

1. He is afraid the oil will go to Mississippi.

And he is an idiot but in this instance I agree with him. Jindal wanted all the proposed sand berms approved but the Army Corps of Engineers approved only the ones that would not theoretically hurt Mississippi. I think Jindal is still complaining too.

[ashling]

2. Didn't he say

"this could turn out to me nothing at all." or something like that?

[KharmaTrain]

3. The Casinos Are Hurting...

That's a big chunk of change out of old Haley's fat pockets. All the news is scaring people away from going to the boats. Wildlife? They don't play kino. He's seeing tourist dollars going down the drain...thus he wants a piece of the pie.

[Historic NY]

4. Imagine the spectacular show of oil burning outside the casino doors.