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BY DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD One of the most controversial
tactics used against this sum- mer’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill — the construction of large sand islands off the Louisiana coast — managed to stop only a “minus- cule”amountof oil, according to a draft report from a presidential commission. The report, released Thursday,
is the latest in a series of findings from the staff of the commission
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KLMNO Sand berms off La. stopped little oil in gulf spill, panel finds
empaneled to investigate the re- sponse to the spill. In this report, staffers found
that the “sand berms” — which Louisiana officials had touted as an essential shield against the spill — trapped only about 1,000 barrels of oil out of the approxi- mately 5 million barrels spilled. For that, the report said, BP
paid about $220 million. That, together with $140 million that BP has committed to provide, amounts to one-third of all the money the oil company paid to
federal or state governments to help respond to the spill. Paying “$220 million for a spill response measure that trapped notmuchmorethan 1,000 barrels of oil is not a compelling cost- benefit trade-off,” the report said. The report also delved into the decision making of federal offi- cials, who approved about 45 miles of the berms despite objec- tions from scientists that they would do little good and might cause environmental harm. The report cites an e-mail from
Thad W. Allen, the retired Coast Guard admiral who was the fed- eral government’s point man on the spill, in which he asked, “What are the chances we could pick a couple of no-brainer proj- ects and call them prototypes to give us some trade space on the larger issue and give that to [Lou- isiana Gov. Bobby] Jindal this weekend?” A few days later, the govern-
ment announced it had approved plans to build one of the six islands that Louisiana wanted as
a pilot project. WhenPresidentObamavisited
Grand Isle, La., on May 28, local officials demanded that more is- lands be approved. At that meet- ing, the report says,Obamaasked Allen to reviewthe idea . After that, Allen held a scientif-
ic summit on the islands on June 1, where some scientists offered qualified support, the report says. The six-island project was subse- quently approved. BP declined to comment
Thursday. Jindal released a state- ment calling it “partisan revision- ist history at taxpayer expense.” The claim “that the berms did
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2010
not pass the commission’s ‘cost benefit analysis’ is insulting to the thousands of people whose way of life depends on the health of our working coast,” Jindal said. The report says that Allen’s decision to green-light the islands was influenced by political pres- sure, including Obama’s request for another reviewof the idea. Allen,whohas retired from the
Coast Guard and gone to work for the Rand Corp., said in a written statement Thursday that the de- cision was made “based on the outcome” of the scientific meet- ing he convened.
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