Attorney General Buddy Caldwell tells Corps of Engineers state has emergency powers to build barrier

Source: The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sunday advising them that the State of Louisiana was within its rights to rebuild barrier islands in order to combat the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Caldwell advised Lt. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp, commanding general of the Corps, that under the U.S. constitution the federal government does not have the legal authority to deny a state the right to conduct such emergency operations to protect its citizens and territory.
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Caldwell ends by saying advising Antwerp to direct the New Orleans District of the Corps of Engineers to issue emergency permits. He also warns that if the district office "persists in its illegal and ill-advised efforts" to block the construction of the barriers, he will advise Gov. Bobby Jindal to go forward with the plans and challenge the Corps authority in court.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/attorney_general_buddy_caldwel.html

Just do what needs doing.

This is just unreal!

this is an example of the Federal government NOT helping

but hindering by doing nothing and allowing nothing

Louisiana has already experienced the Federal government purposeful inactions

this Government is not for the people it is for the corporations