Crews have fixed the “boom to nowhere,” following a report in The Daily Caller that called attention to the questionable placement of the oil retention device by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar during a photo op several weeks ago.
Salazar, clad in life vest and wader boots, visited the west end of Little Lagoon in Gulf Shores, Ala., to help BP contractors install the boom to protect the area’s white beaches from the oncoming oil spill. But according to one area homeowner, the boom Salazar helped place — during a photo shoot that was covered widely by the media — offered no protection to the shores and wildlife.
The before photo:
The after photo:
“We call it the ‘boom to nowhere,’” said Laguna Key homeowner John Simms. “Where the boom is placed it doesn’t keep the oil out of the lagoon and it doesn’t protect the marsh.”
A new photo from a homeowner shows that the boom is now in a position where it blocks the lagoon from the waterway where oil could potentially come from.