Gulf Coast Comes Face To Face With The Reptilian Agenda
'The Plan Is to Let Us Die,' Coastal Parish President Says
"Almost 70 miles of Louisiana coast are soaked with oil. That's more land than the seashores of Maryland and Delaware combined, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday after Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano were flown over the devastated coast. Napolitano said the federal government would "disperse it, boom it, burn it," to keep more oil from coming ashore. But St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro had a different idea. "I would be betting the plan is to let us die," Taffaro said.
Federal officials delivered messages similar to Napolitano's, but none wanted to address an incident that occurred last weekend, when BP and the Coast Guard abandoned 44 boats loaded with booms on Louisiana's shores as thick black oil flooded into the marshlands. BP was nowhere in sight as the oil inundated the fragile marshes. And the oil company has provided little explanation about what made it jump ship rather fight the oil as it hit land. BP has continued to spray two chemical dispersants into the Gulf despite an order by the Environmental Protection Agency to end the spraying on Sunday night. The chemical dispersants, made by Corexit, are banned in BP's homeland, the United Kingdom, because of their toxicity."
"Far below Louisiana's fragile wetlands are reserves of crude oil and other valuable minerals. Local residents speculated on Monday that BP is after the mineral rights, which it cannot touch while the wetlands are alive.
It's a grim prospect, perhaps far-fetched, but not for those who live along the 70 miles of oil-saturated coast, who wonder what the heck happened this weekend when BP refused to fight the incoming oil.
"We can actually see birds that are covered in oil," Gov. Jindal said Monday at the news conference in Galliano.
"It is clear that we do not have the resources to protect our coast," Jindal said, describing the past weekend, as booms and workers "sat for days waiting for orders" and got no direction approval from BP or the federal government.
The Army Corps of Engineers has continued to drag its feet on whether to approve dredging plans to create a barrier around Louisiana's wetlands. BP officials have not proposed any plan to prevent the oil from moving away from the broken well and into Louisiana's fragile marshes.
Salazar said he will do everything he can to keep Louisiana's coast from disappearing.
"We're going to keep the boot on the map," Salazar said, referring to the shape of his the state.
Interior Secretary Salazar and other federal officials continue to claim that damages will be kept at a minimum, and have been managed to get BP to acknowledge responsibility for the continuing disaster, but Louisiana officials and residents say there is no plan in sight to protect them."
"Almost 70 miles of Louisiana coast are soaked with oil. That's more land than the seashores of Maryland and Delaware combined, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday after Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano were flown over the devastated coast. Napolitano said the federal government would "disperse it, boom it, burn it," to keep more oil from coming ashore. But St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro had a different idea. "I would be betting the plan is to let us die," Taffaro said.
Federal officials delivered messages similar to Napolitano's, but none wanted to address an incident that occurred last weekend, when BP and the Coast Guard abandoned 44 boats loaded with booms on Louisiana's shores as thick black oil flooded into the marshlands. BP was nowhere in sight as the oil inundated the fragile marshes. And the oil company has provided little explanation about what made it jump ship rather fight the oil as it hit land. BP has continued to spray two chemical dispersants into the Gulf despite an order by the Environmental Protection Agency to end the spraying on Sunday night. The chemical dispersants, made by Corexit, are banned in BP's homeland, the United Kingdom, because of their toxicity."
"Far below Louisiana's fragile wetlands are reserves of crude oil and other valuable minerals. Local residents speculated on Monday that BP is after the mineral rights, which it cannot touch while the wetlands are alive.
It's a grim prospect, perhaps far-fetched, but not for those who live along the 70 miles of oil-saturated coast, who wonder what the heck happened this weekend when BP refused to fight the incoming oil.
"We can actually see birds that are covered in oil," Gov. Jindal said Monday at the news conference in Galliano.
"It is clear that we do not have the resources to protect our coast," Jindal said, describing the past weekend, as booms and workers "sat for days waiting for orders" and got no direction approval from BP or the federal government.
The Army Corps of Engineers has continued to drag its feet on whether to approve dredging plans to create a barrier around Louisiana's wetlands. BP officials have not proposed any plan to prevent the oil from moving away from the broken well and into Louisiana's fragile marshes.
Salazar said he will do everything he can to keep Louisiana's coast from disappearing.
"We're going to keep the boot on the map," Salazar said, referring to the shape of his the state.
Interior Secretary Salazar and other federal officials continue to claim that damages will be kept at a minimum, and have been managed to get BP to acknowledge responsibility for the continuing disaster, but Louisiana officials and residents say there is no plan in sight to protect them."
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