The bureaucratic and political [COLOR=".Orange"]pissing[/COLOR] match continues in the Gulf.....at least it appears as such
It took 3 weeks or so for the Corps of Engineers to Green Light the berms now it
appears the Feds are shutting down the project. This comes less than 24 hours after a judge lifted the oil moratorium for deep water drilling and comes less than a week when skimmer barges were halted by the Coast Guard to check for life vests and fire extinguishers.
http://www.wdsu.com/news/23997498/detail.html
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WDSU.com
Federal Gov't Halts Sand Berm Dredging
Nungesser Pleads With President To Allow Work To Continue
POSTED: 5:37 pm CDT June 22, 2010
UPDATED: 5:51 pm CDT June 22, 2010
NEW ORLEANS -- The federal government is shutting down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico.
The berms are meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil. But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department has concerns about where the dredging is being done.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, who was one of the most vocal advocates of the dredging plan, has sent a letter to President Barack Obama, pleading for the work to continue.
Nungesser said the government has asked crews to move the dredging site two more miles farther off the coastline.
"Once again, our government resource agencies, which are intended to protect us, are now leaving us vulnerable to the destruction of our coastline and marshes by the impending oil," Nungesser wrote to Obama. "Furthermore, with the threat of hurricanes or tropical storms, we are being put at an increased risk for devastation to our area from the intrusion of oil.
Nungesser has asked for the dredging to continue for the next seven days, the amount of time it would take to move the dredging operations two miles and out resume work.
Work is scheduled to halt at midnight Wednesday.
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