STONY BROOK – In 2010, when Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal unveiled a $220 million scheme to use sand berms to block the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from a British Petroleum oilrig, scientists opposed the plan, stating that it would do little more than harm local ecosystems. Even after the national commission investigating the spill declared the initiative a failure for having captured only 1,000 of the nearly five million barrels of oil believed to have gushed into the Gulf, Jindal did not relent, calling the statements “partisan revisionist history at taxpayer expense.”
石溪—2010年，路易斯安那州州长鲍比·金达尔（Bobby Jindal）发起了一项2.2亿美元的计划，用沙堤阻挡英国石油公司油井中的原油流入墨西哥湾。科学家们反对这一计划，指出这样做只会伤害当地生态系统。即在使全国委员会调查了漏油情况并宣布该计划失败、只拦截到漏入墨西哥湾的五百万桶原油中的1,000桶后，金达尔仍拒绝妥协，声称委员会的陈述“康纳税人之慨行党派修正主义之实。”