Interior Secretary Salazar Tours Bon Secour Wildlife Refuge
May 6th, 2010
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar toured the Gulf Coast this week and stopped off in the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in South Alabama on Wednesday to show the Obama administration is on the ground dealing with one of the worst environmental and economic disasters ever.
Salazar jumped in and helped workers lay a stretch of boom in Little Lagoon, one of the many coastal estuaries at risk from BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, still spewing 210,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico.
Salazar, a rancher from Colorado, was clearly not afraid to get his wading boots in the water…
Bon Secour National Wildlife Manager Jeremy Phillips helps Salazar stretch the boom around a sandbar…
Contract workers lower an anchor attached to the boom to keep it in place in the water, and to try and keep any oil out that comes ashore…
Workers have also piled up a large berm of sand next to the Little Lagoon Pass. In the event that BP’s oil makes landfall here, the plan is to fill the mouth of the lagoon and close the pass to prevent any oil from encroaching into the wetlands.
After a boat ride and photo op laying the boom, the secretary held a press conference on the banks of Gator Lake. That’s Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft behind the secretary, and Phillips on the right.
Salazar welcomed the involvement of citizen activists and volunteers, and even brought
Denis Hatfield with the Little Lagoon Preservation Society to the podium to say a few words.
The sun setting after the press conference over Gator Lake…
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