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Collier County’s 2023 Emergency Berm Project is expected to begin the first week of April.

>> well, we have a brain trust of coastal science here in louisiana, been here for 50 years because of the mississippi river delta. we know the delta better than -- i mean, we have the people who are the absolute world experts. when the berm project was proposed and all of a sudden announced as a done deal, none of the scientists had been involved in planning this thing. we all have concerns that by an engineering project without adult supervision frankly, is a prospect that could do more harm than good. now that the oil spill may have been -- the leak may have been cut off, we hope, i'm afrai...

It was not spent? >> well, we have a brain trust of coastal science here in louisiana, been here for 50 years because of the mississippi river delta. we know the delta better than -- i mean, we have the people who are the absolute world experts. when the berm project was proposed and all of a sudden announced as a done deal, none of the scientists had been involved in planning this thing. we all had concerns by an engineering project without adult supervision frankly is a prospect that could do more harm than good. now that the oil spill may have been -- the leak may have been cut off, we hope...

>> well, we have a brain trust of coastal science here in louisiana, been here for 50 years because of the mississippi river delta. we know the delta better than -- i mean, we have the people who are the absolute world experts. when the berm project was proposed and all of a sudden announced as a done deal, none of the scientists had been involved in planning this thingç we all have concerns that by an engineering project without adult supervision frankly, is a prospect that could do more harm than good. now that the oil spill may have been -- the leak may have been cut off, we hope, i'm afra...

That, too. >> absolutely. today, the berms, well, maybe we don't need to finish them. we're fighting this every day in the marshes. the only way we're going to control our way of life, get our way of life back is if we have those berms out there, we have barges in the pass and we can keep all that oil at bay. i flew out to the oil site and there was oil for an hour, oil all the way out there. and the oil below the surface. >> so even if this thing shuts off right now, there's still 80-plus days of oil still to come. >> i think there's a couple years. it's not going to say okay, let's go to sho...