BREAKING: Coast Guard Head Was Informed of Maine Oil Boom on 5/21. Yesterday, He Claimed He Didn’t Know
I went to the ifa link, and looking at what’s there, it could go either way. Three little articles down in the left side (didn’t click those, just read the headings)- AL Gov thanked the pres for the extra boom, LA and FL govs both complaining about the shortage of it. So….your link wasn’t the ‘Hah!’ you seem to want it to be.
Also, great, there are other companies busy making booms. When two govs are crying about shortages in it though, it could indicate that well, there’s a shortage, or that the companies producing are tapped out. The Coast Guard could have easily responded with ‘we have enough boom and haven’t been looking for other sources’- assuming your link proves there’s not an issue. There has been a lot of talk of needing more though, and needing to bring resources online. (on a side note, I’d really like to know what the defect was…Lt. Halvorson? And how is it you have time to read pjm and respond IN THE COMMENTS SECTION instead of, oh, I don’t know, distributing a general press release with details?)
Then again, maybe it’s just been an efficiency in placement issue. (I will also admit there is a lot of arm-chair quaterbacking going on, or at least I think so).
Some other questions, such as not taking up the Dutch on assistance, are interesting though.
