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Billy Nungesser: “Does it look like we're doing everything? Does this look like we're doing everything? This isn't doing everything.”

On the recordJune 22, 2010
Does it look like we're doing everything? Does this look like we're doing everything? This isn't doing everything.

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Plaquemines Parish President Nungesser questions the effectiveness of the federal response to the oil spill.

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Apr 18, 2011

Absolutely not. The spots you saw, you don't have the thick oil. But when a bird gets a little bit of oil on its breast, it's like you punching a hole in a rubber boot. You're going to get pneumonia and die.

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Apr 18, 2011

They have no plan. The Coast Guard nor BP has a plan. There's nobody cleaning up the marsh. I want to see a plan. If you're not going to have a plan, get the hell out of the way and let us go do it ourselves.

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Apr 18, 2011

If they would have worked 24-7 on the cleanup, we would have seen most of the area cleaned up and bank stabilization in place. We're losing land every day because of the lack of the response.

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