Billy Nungesser: “We want a short- and a long-range plan to compensate the fishermen, the dock owners, the haulers, the seafood companies.”

Every day from here on out that it stays sealed off, there will be less oil in our marshlands, less oil to kill the birds, less oil to ruin our way of life.

Instead of hiring P.R. people to talk about ballets on the water, if we just do the right thing, sit down and deploy every piece of equipment, there's something to hang your hat on.

This administration in the city has failed miserably on everything.

It's been one lie after another. And the long-term effects of that oil out there, we don't know.