Jindal Admin. Responds To Negative Report On Sand Berms

The Jindal Administration fires back at a federal oil spill report that sand berms--built between barrier islands to stop oil from reaching shore--a huge waste of money. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority chairman Garrett Graves says the state took action on the berms, when federal responses failed. The Obama administration report says the berms only stopped a miniscule amount of oil from reaching coastal wetlands--and so the project was
flawed. Graves says the federal report is what is flawed. In a written response Governor Bobby Jindal calls the report "partisan revisionist history at taxpayer expense". Graves also defends building the booms as a plan founded in solid coastal science. (Graves says the berms also serve to help restore coastal barrier islands and so the project will continue.)