http://toledoblade.com/article/20100626/NEWS14/6260388/-1/NEWS32For weeks, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R., La.) has attacked BP and the Coast Guard for not having adequate plans and resources to battle the oil spill.
But interviews with more than two dozen state and federal officials and experts suggest Louisiana, from the earliest days of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, often disregarded its own longstanding plans and experts in favor of large-scale proposals that many say probably would have had limited effectiveness and could even have hampered the response.
On the first weekend in May, after the governor declared a state of emergency and weeks before heavy oil began to hit the coast, senior members of the Jindal administration decided the unified command was not working.
On May 3, Mr. Jindal went public with his dissatisfaction. "We kept being assured over and over that they had a plan, that there was a detailed plan, that it was coming; we never got that plan," he said.
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