Feds Shutting Down Sand Berms

Via Jim Treacher and about all of Twitter, the Federal government is shutting down the dredging that Louisiana was using to construct sand berms to keep the oil off the coastline.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department says that the current location of the dredging could change the salinity of the water and do other things to kill off wildlife. So they want the dredging site moved another two miles offshore. That will take about a week, during which oil will wash unimpeded onto the coastline. So will the department allow dredging at the current sites -- and construction of the protective berms -- to continue just for the week until the dredging operation is moved? Nope.

I'm going to guess that pleas to Obama aren't going to help:

"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.

Gonna get worse before it gets better, I think.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 09:38 AM

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