shores. joining us from venice, louisiana is phil keating. it seems like they re no closer to containing it, what s the latest? the problem is the weather. as you can see, the wind is kicking up right now, it s getting a little stronger and the sun is rising, so a lot of the tug boats that have the orange containment booms stacked on their backs will be heading out here to string more than 200,000 already existing feet and add on to containment boom to try and protect this coast line. it is fragile. home to half the country s shrimp industry. and so, i spoke with the par esche president here and he says it s absolutely urgent to get this contained because his fear is southwest louisiana, the entire region as we know it could be gone. it gets into the lakes and the b byways and the streams inland you ll never clean it
preventing and lobbying against the layers of protection in years past. they could have done things to prevent things like that. they chose to turn away. they assured the federal government nothing like this would happen. they say it was nearly possible. but bobby jindle, the governor of louisiana said nothing is slog the leak. i am worried that the booms are not affected and areas will be impacted and it is a critical and frannelil coastal sites. these next few days are critical. we must do everything possible to protect our coast. booms are not happening right now. fishermen, obviously it affects the livelihood and economy of the entire gulf coast and the repercussion of the sea fod food stray.
booms and use the fishing boats. they are hired by the very company that is ruining their livelihood. they have good jobs and mon coming in . the weather has a lot to do with this. a lot of the things that they are doing to contain this are ineffective because of the weather. let s be honest. fisher men are making some money out of they ll not make money fishing . the booms all of the water going over it. so a lot of these things are things done for pr purposes. it looks like they are doing something at the end of the day. boom and waves in the gulf that today poterriblely 10 feet because of strong wind and that will lap over the booms. we are not talking about a couple of days event. we ll be talking about this months and months for come. as long as the oil is leaking
dole with the threat of the slick. but in the long run stop the source of the oil. look with all of the waves wrapping over the booms it is a pr move. you are trying to do what you can to get down there, but with the weather they are not continuing the oil. they are just lapping over the top of it. once you have oil on the water there are no winners. there is a limit to what booming can do based on what you just stated. earlier throughout the event we tried to deal with the oil skimming and dispursement and burning. are we any closer to learning how this could have happened? is there an investigation going on to just two who was on the rig at the time. were there any new crew members. could it have been a human error? it is it a good point.
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