Jindal sand berm project was a colossal waste of time and money

In emphatic language, the bi-partisan commission announced that it can “comfortably conclude that the decision to green-light the underwhelmingly effective, overwhelmingly expensive Louisiana berms project was flawed.”

Take the simple question of oil containment. “Estimates vary, and no precise figures are available,” the report notes. “But no estimates of how much oil the berms captured are much greater than 1,000 total barrels. In comparison, according to peer-reviewed government estimates released in November, burning, skimming, and chemical dispersion addressed a total of between 890,000 and 1.85 million barrels spilled from the Macondo well.”

In a statement emailed to The Lookout, Jindal blasted the report as “partisan revisionist history at taxpayer expense” and curiously invoked the name of a bygone populist Louisiana governor with a legacy of corruption.