Two to three weeks is unacceptable. If we're ordering equipment, if we're bringing it in from overseas, I don't care. But I want a plan, two to three days.
Billy Nungesser: “Two to three weeks is unacceptable. If we're ordering equipment, if we're bringing it in from overseas, I don't care.…”
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Billy Nungesser demands a faster response plan for the oil cleanup efforts.
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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.
The only way we're going to control our way of life and get our way of life back is if we have those berms out there, we have barges in the pass, and we can keep that oil at bay.
When we're in Baton Rouge having the Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo because they won't let us build anything back, that's a problem.
If it's $50,000 a month to the bank, and it's going to take them 90 days, pay them the $50,000 a month while they work out the claim. Don't make them sweat it out until you come back and either make them whole or sit down and work out the…





