Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to foul 168 miles of Louisiana coastline

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Re: Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to foul 168 miles of Louisiana coastline

Gulf of Mexico oil spill cleanup efforts inadequate, Plaquemines President Billy Nungesser says

Published: Friday, January 07, 2011, 7:30 PM Updated: Friday, January 07, 2011, 11:44 PM

By Paul Rioux, The Times-Picayune



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Oil still covers some marsh in Bay Jimmy on Friday, January 7, 2011. Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser and Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries secretary Robert Barham take members of the media on a tour of an oiled strip of marsh in Bay Jimmy. Oiled Marsh in Bay Jimmy 1/8/2011 gallery (21 photos)


Standing on a makeshift plywood boardwalk placed atop an oil-choked mat of dead marsh grass in Bay Jimmy, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser blasted the pace of cleanup efforts, saying the wetlands look worse than when BP's gushing well was capped nearly six months ago.

"The land is washing away as we speak," Nungesser said Friday, his white shrimp boots smeared with oil. "With so little being done to clean this up, we're never going to win this battle."

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Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to foul 168 miles of Louisiana coastline

Published: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 7:30 PM Updated: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 8:28 PM

By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune

Louisiana's coastline continues to be smeared with significant amounts of oil and oiled material from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, with cleanup teams struggling to remove as much as possible of the toxic material by the time migratory birds arrive at the end of February, said the program manager of the Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Teams, which are working for BP and the federal government.

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<!-- IE6 HACK -->"The reality is we still have hundreds of miles of oiled shoreline today," said Garret Graves, chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. "We still have oilings on a regular basis in areas of Jefferson and Plaquemines Parish, and there's still a lot of oil buried back in the marshes where it was carried during high water events.

"The threat is absolutely still there and the oil is absolutely still there," he said.
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