well, we have a brain trust of coastal science here in louisiana, been here for 50 years because of the mississippi river delta. we know the delta better than i mean, we have the people who are the absolute world experts. when the berm project was proposed and all of a sudden announced as a done deal, none of the scientists had been involved in planning this thing. we all have concerns that by an engineering project without adult supervision frankly, is a prospect that could do more harm than good. now that the oil spill may have been the leak may have been cut off, we hope, i m afraid that by the time these berms are complete in nine months or a year, it will be a moot question anyway, because the oil will not be the threat that it is right now. do the berms themselves, apart from the fact they don t
it was not spent? well, we have a brain trust of coastal science here in louisiana, been here for 50 years because of the mississippi river delta. we know the delta better than i mean, we have the people who are the absolute world experts. when the berm project was proposed and all of a sudden announced as a done deal, none of the scientists had been involved in planning this thing. we all had concerns by an engineering project without adult supervision frankly is a prospect that could do more harm than good. now that the oil spill may have been the leak may have been cut off, we hope, i m afraid that by the time these berms are complete in nine monthsor a year, it will be a moot question anyway. because the oil will not be the threat that it is right now.
well, we have a brain trust of coastal science here in louisiana, been here for 50 years because of the mississippi river delta. we know the delta better than i mean, we have the people who are the absolute world experts. when the berm project was proposed and all of a sudden announced as a done deal, none of the scientists had been involved in planning this thingç we all have concerns that by an engineering project without adult supervision frankly, is a prospect that could do more harm than good. now that the oil spill may have been the leak may have been cut off, we hope, i m afraid that by the time these berms are complete in nine months or a year, it will be a moot question anyway, because the oil will not be the threat that it is right
that, too. absolutely. today, the berms, well, maybe we don t need to finish them. we re fighting this every day in the marshes. the only way we re going to control our way of life, get our way of life back is if we have those berms out there, we have barges in the pass and we can keep all that oil at bay. i flew out to the oil site and there was oil for an hour, oil all the way out there. and the oil below the surface. so even if this thing shuts off right now, there s still 80-plus days of oil still to come. i think there s a couple years. it s not going to say okay, let s go to shore and get this thing over with. we ve seen it drift north, south, east and west. it could be out there for years. we ve got to take a quick break. i want to talk more about the berm project. now a number of scientists are saying look, this thing isn t working. there are photos out on the web that we re going to show people. we ll talk about that when we come back. are the berms washing away? are t