Well Lah-Dee-Dah; BP Money Will Build 2 Fishery Labs In LA, Restore Barrier Islands

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Louisiana will receive $340 million from BP in early Natural Resource Damage Assessment money for four projects to restore barrier islands and to finance two coastal science centers, Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Tuesday in a news conference in Jean Lafitte. The money comes from $1 billion that BP set aside in 2011 to build early projects to compensate for damages to natural resources resulting from the three-month flow of oil resulting from the blowout of BP's Macondo well in April 2010.
jindalbp_edited-1.jpgView full sizeGov. Bobby Jindal announces four barrier islands will be rebuilt and two fisheries laboratories will be established with $340 million from BP. The money comes from a $1 billion fund BP established for early Natural Resource Damage Assessment restoration projects under the federal Oil Pollution Act. Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

The projects include almost $320 million for restoration of Whiskey Island, also known as the Caillou Lake Headlands, in Terrebonne Parish; and the Cheniere Ronquille headland, Shell Island and North Breton Island in Plaquemines Parish. Another $22 million will be spent on the two fish stock research and enhancement centers in Lake Charles and Pointe a la Hache.

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But Jindal also made clear that as big as this payment looks, it's a drop in the bucket compared with what the state thinks BP should pay to restore damage to Louisiana's natural resources. "Absolutely," Jindal said when asked by a reporter whether BP should be found grossly negligent in its actions leading up to the Macondo well blowout in the ongoing federal lawsuit that will determine how much the company pays in Clean Water Act fines. A ruling of gross negligence would result in a four-fold increase in those fines.

"I believe they’re liable to the tune of tens of billions of dollars to restore the entire coast, and secondly that it needs to be done quickly," Jindal said. "They need to put their dollars into this community now, not years from now. Otherwise, some of the very habitat, some of the very communities, some of the very coast we’re trying to restore, it may be too late."

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http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/04/bps_340_million_will_restore_4.html

I'd say that unless they're researching ways to pull Corexit out of diatoms, they can go and fuck themselves with their $340 million.

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1. Wonder if they'll get patents ...

... on all of the "genetically modified organisms" that they've been producing using the
good old Corexit method? Ultra-soft-shell crabs? Self-basting prawns?