Explain this

[ProSense]

There is an article in LBN: BP Oil Spill: White House Intervenes After Coast Guard Stops Two More Oil-Sucking Barges

It includes this quote:

According to Plaquemines Parish officials, the White House found out about the boats being halted and spoke to the Coast Guard, informing them that from this point forward the Coast Guard can not interfere with cleanup operations, only make suggestions on safety concerns. Within a few hours, the barges were back in operation.

If you go to the link in the LBN article, you'll notice that the title was changed:

BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard
60 Days Into Oil Crisis, Gulf Coast Governors Say Feds Are Failing Them

Not unsusual, but the story has also changed. The statement about the White House is no longer in the article.

It now makes the point:

The governor said he didn't have the authority to overrule the Coast Guard's decision, though he said he tried to reach the White House to raise his concerns.

"They promised us they were going to get it done as quickly as possible," he said. But "every time you talk to someone different at the Coast Guard, you get a different answer."

After Jindal strenuously made his case, the barges finally got the go-ahead Thursday to return to the Gulf and get back to work, after more than 24 hours of sitting idle.

It's the big bad federal government:

The governor said the problem is there's still no single person giving a "yes" or "no." While the Gulf Coast governors have developed plans with the Coast Guard's command center in the Gulf, things begin to shift when other agencies start weighing in, like the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

"It's like this huge committee down there," Riley said, "and every decision that we try to implement, any one person on that committee has absolute veto power."

Am I missing something? I'm not even sure why the WH had to be called. It sounds like "I'm gonna tell on you."

[Wildewolfe]

1. If I had to make a guess

FEMA and the Dept of homeland insecurity are still packed to the gills with incompetents from prior administration. Polical appointees that have gone civil (i.e. permanent) and are embedded and take months to years to get fired and out of the system.

Maybe this will expose more of them.

[ProSense]

2. Here is something else the article reveals

Sixteen barges sat stationary Thursday, although they had been sucking up thousands of gallons of BP's oil as recently as Tuesday.

Who knew? We've heard all along that nothing was being done.

[Wildewolfe]

4. There is another interesting part

in the section you quote... "of BP's oil"

wait...what?

Why should that be BP's at this point and could that be part of it? Oil is still oil and the more BP can recover and not someone else the more offset to their damages they see.

[ProSense]

5. Good catch.

Also, this is not a quote from a BP executive (none is the subject of the article), it's ABC's lede.

Hmmm?

[SkyDaddy7]

10. ABC has been misleading the enti time!!

[conscious evolution]

9. Interesting point

As I recall,anyone salvaging items lost at sea can make claims in court for a significant portion of the salvaged goods monetary value.
Someone could be making a good chunk of change off of the oil salvaged.
Wonder who that might be.

[sandnsea]

3. Those damn EPA and FWS regulations

So what if those barges are destroying the very wildlife we're all trying to save.

All those governors care about is their pretty beaches and the tourist dollars.

I don't know, but that would be my guess.

[Phx_Dem]

6. There go those "patriot journalists" again . . .

changing the story to suit their narrative.

And from ABC News no less. What a shocker.

[Dr Morbius]

7. I call them "Disney News."

Kind of fitting, I think.

[RKP5637]

8. +1, n/t

[POAS]

11. Disney news...good point...and now they have

Harry Potter, good grief.

[Phx_Dem]

12. Agreed.

:fistbump:

[jenmito]

13. CNN is showing little Bobby Jindal with his life jacket on, sucking up the oil while complaining

about how he can't get the equipment he needs. Ol' Anderson Cooper is there "keepin' them honest," making little Bobby look like the hero who's doing all he can because he "can't wait around" while the oil is ruining his state. NO mention of Bobby's incompetence re: not doling out the money or using the National Guard provided. :eyes: