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Plaquemines president: Oil spill may already be on La.'s coast
~Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said based on his observations from a Coast Guard helicopter just a short while ago, the spill could be hitting the Mississippi River Delta now.
~"We want to be hired to come clean it up,"
said George Baracich of the United Commercial Fishermen's Association. "We have boats, we have knowledge, we know the estuary, we know where we're at, and we're not scared of working fifteen or twenty hours a day as a time. That's what we do when we're catching shrimp."
~Please see Georgianne Nienaber's dizzying UPDATE just filed at Huffington Post!

Oil from Gulf spill is reaching Louisiana coastline

Gulf spill is really a river of oil, environmentalists say
~"This isn't a spill," said Kerry St. Pe, who headed Louisiana's oil spill response team for 23 years. "This isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse. It's a river of oil flowing from the bottom of the Gulf at the rate of 210,000 gallons a day that officials say could be running for two months or more.
If that prediction holds, much of the state's southeastern coast will become a world-watched environmental battleground that hasn't been seen in the United States since the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska 21 years ago."

Louisiana fishers fear lasting damage to livelihoods from Gulf oil spill

Nobody Could Have Predicted
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Frozen in the Head Lights, Governor Jindal seems Powerless, plays Blame Game
~Gov. Bobby Jindal said this afternoon he has repeatedly asked BP, the Coast Guard and federal authorities for a plan about the number of people and resources that will be dedicated to combating the potentially devastating environmental impacts of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but as of Thursday afternoon he still had not received an answer.~Jindal asked the Defense Dept to pay for 6,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard to assist with the cleanup for at least 90 days. What? Or what?