Jindal Issues Statement On National Oil Spill Commission Report

BATON ROUGE

– Today, Governor Bobby Jindal issued the following statement on the National Oil Spill Commission’s report regarding the berms:

“This report is partisan revisionist history at taxpayer expense.

“The Commission would do a true service to Americans by recommending federal bureaucracies that can be eliminated or expedited in times of major disasters – like Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, instead of attacking the politics of Louisiana and Huey Long.

“The report’s assertion that the berms did not pass the commission’s ‘cost benefit analysis’ is insulting to the thousands of people whose way of life depends on the health of our working coast. What exactly is the cost of thousands of jobs and generations of fishermen and oyster harvesters who have made their living off of our coast for over 100 years? I would like the Administration to provide us with an estimate of the ‘cost’ that they did not deem worthy of every action possible to protect coastal families.

“We are thrilled that this has become the state's largest barrier island restoration project in history.” – Governor Bobby Jindal

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