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On May 2, Gov. Jindal requested that federal authorities and BP provide three million feet of absorbent boom, five million feet of hard boom and 30 “jack up†barges. Of that, less than 800,000 feet of hard boom has arrived — less than a fifth of the request. About 140,000 feet of that hard boom is sitting waiting for BP to tell contractors where to take it.“It is clear we don’t have the resources we need to protect our coast, we need more boom, more skimmers, more vacuums, more jack-up barges that are still in short supply,†Jindal said today. “Let’s be clear, every day that this oil sits is one more day that more of our marsh dies.â€http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/wh-were-on-the-case-jindal-help.html
Two weeks ago BP sent a quality control person to Maine, looked at the factory, and was impressed by what he saw. Packgen was feeling confident. That confidence has now turned to frustration. Packgen says BP controls who the boom suppliers are going to be — and they have yet to approve Packgen’s design.Two Packgen engineers went to the gulf recently to see for themselves what was happening — they say they saw booms that were sinking and contractors begging for boom — but they won’t buy anything that isn’t BP approved. Meanwhile, Lapoint has slowed production, started storing boom in a warehouse, and now waits for BP to say yay or nay.http://www.necn.com/pages/landing?blockID=246621
Steffy: U.S. and BP slow to accept Dutch expertiseThree days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'†said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.Now, almost seven weeks later, as the oil spewing from the battered well spreads across the Gulf and soils pristine beaches and coastline, BP and our government have reconsidered.U.S. ships are being outfitted this week with four pairs of the skimming booms airlifted from the Netherlands and should be deployed within days. Each pair can process 5 million gallons of water a day, removing 20,000 tons of oil and sludge.At that rate, how much more oil could have been removed from the Gulf during the past month?The uncoordinated response to an offer of assistance has become characteristic of this disaster's response. Too often, BP and the government don't seem to know what the other is doing, and the response has seemed too slow and too confused.Federal law has also hampered the assistance. The Jones Act, the maritime law that requires all goods be carried in U.S. waters by U.S.-flagged ships, has prevented Dutch ships with spill-fighting equipment from entering U.S. coastal areas.
Typical of when the dems are in power. I seem to recall a certain Mayor who had a shit ton of busses that sat unused during a certain bad storm.
With a dem Governor that had no idea about following law regarding asking for federal help even though she was told the procedural formalities she had to do.
