Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal, says they will not wait for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect Louisiana's coastline. Gov. Jindal and other state and local leaders have become increasingly frustrated with Obama's administration, which has yet to approve sand barriers along the coast. Jindal, who has been extremely critical of the amount of boom his state was issued, said the major complaint lies with the Army Corps of Engineers who has yet to give the "green light" to build sand booms to protect the Louisiana wetlands.
Jindal, who claims hard booms and soft booms do not work, used photographic evidence on Monday to prove his point that sand booms are what will ultimately corral the oil and therefore protect the wetlands.
According to Jindal, "We don't want oil on one inch of Louisiana's coastline, but we'd much rather fight this oil off of a hard coast, off of an island, off of an island, off of a sandy beach on our coastal islands, rather than having to fight it inside in these wetlands,"
"Every day we're not given approval on this emergency permit to create more of these booms is another day when that choice is made for us, as more and more miles of our shore are hit by oil."
Oil has now reached 12 miles into the Louisiana's Marshes leaving two pelican rookeries covered in crude oil.
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