Jun
14
Could Obama Really Move the Mississippi to Save Gulf Wetlands?
The Beltway-connected historian Douglas Brinkley dropped something of a bombshell talking to Anderson Cooper about the administration’s response to the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. Brinkley suggests that on top of the short-term fixes—actually stopping the gusher and cleaning up the oil—the administration is planning a massive “Gulf Recovery Act” that would involve actually redirecting the Mississippi River in order to restore coastal wetlands, and sending the bill to BP, which could run as high as $20 billion.
and they could just take a wrong turn at baton rouge and “accidentally” wash what’s left of that pesky new orleans into the sea
