The group of fishermen who live on the beach from Punta Cardón to Médano Blanco, denounced that the submarine line number 2 that carries crude oil from Bajo Grande to the Amuay and Cardón refineries in the Paraguaná Refining Complex (CRP), and that crosses the "Golfete de Coro"
i can t take these in today, turn everything around and give you answers tomorrow. reporter: they are collecting evidence and building a legal case against bp, looking for a settlement big enough to rebuild the gulf. this is not a spill about turtles or shorelines or about fish. this is a spill about an ecosystem. reporter: one year later, man and machine work to clean marshes still covered in oil. everything out there is getting some of that sheen. you can t see it, still, and it s been happening for a year. you can t see any of it. all of those birds, even if all they have is a little smudge on their breast, they re constantly trying to clean that off. they re ingesting the oil. reporter: last year, over 2,000 birds were rescued from oil, with over 1,200 moved away from the spill to texas and florida.
what we promised the parish presidents, we want one of these? not yet. but the parish presidents have said this is what we want. what is the cost of this? to protect the gulf, eight of our barges, 15 of our mini gulps we would like to position is about $48 million a year. kevin costner and his partner say the $48 million price tag is a small price to pay to be better prepared for the disaster that left the gulf reeling. so it would be water, oil, everything flowing in. so that would be happening right underneath this. then what happens? it gets sucked up through these pipes. these would be full of water and oil and garbage. nothing stops us. they were getting clogged with seaweed and trash. this thing just nothing stops this.
year on one of louisiana s barrier islands. this days a lot of it remains as david mattingly discovered on a recent trip to the gulf. reporter: returning 10 months later, the louisiana governor s office gave me a disturbing look inside this damaged ecosystem. i could still see oil everywhere, sticking to the plants. it s like tar, so sticky. look at that. it s also saturated the fragile soil. you can find it a foot below the surface. right down here into the roots. look at that. it s like a paste. as for bp s continuing commitment highlighted in their ad, governor jindal isn t buying it. we stood here with some leaders from bp towards the end of last year and they made promises about replanting oysters and building a saltwater hatcheries and those promises
billy, what about people feeling like they ve gotten their life back or lives back? i remember hearing the ceo tony hayward at the time i just want my life back. and thinking either he has a deaf ear to all of this or he s not very bright. they just don t get it. we can never forget those 11 lives lost. it s the way they have treated all of them. how could they not continue their pay and anything they need for the rest of their life? it just shows the same attitude, cut and run as they ve dope here in the gulf. they ve said there s no oil, and you saw out there today with the governor, there s oil all over. clearly. james, let s talk about reform and legislation. a year later, it looks like there s nothing to point to. is there anything?