Gov. Bobby Jindal chastises Coast Guard over oil spill barge stoppage for "INSPECTIONS"!!!

Gov. Bobby Jindal chastises Coast Guard over oil spill barge stoppage
Updated: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 3:35 PM

Gov. Bobby Jindal chastised the Coast Guard today for stopping eight barges equipped with vacuums to siphon oil for an unnecessary inspection Wednesday.

A cleanup worker vacuums oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill along the north shore of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish on Tuesday.

"The last 24 hours have been incredibly frustrating," Jindal said at a news conference at Fort Jackson in Buras, following an aerial tour of oil-fighting efforts on the coast.
Calling for "more urgency" in the federal government's response to the growing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, Jindal described how it took calls to the White House to clear the way for the barges to commence with cleaning up surface oil today.

"Twenty-four hours were lost unnecessarily," he said. "That's thousands of gallons of oil that could have been sucked up if they had been allowed to do their jobs."...(cont.)

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