25 Quotes by Ivor Heerden

My concern was that the focus was not on protecting Louisiana.

If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orleans more vulnerable than it was before.

He tried the best that he could, under the circumstances.

Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list.

I was basically shocked. What do lobbyists know about a plan for the reconstruction and restoration of Louisiana?

Most of the flooding of New Orleans was due to man's follies. Society owes those who lost their lives, and the approximately 100,000 families who lost all, an apology.

We need to recognize we may be about to experience our equivalent of the Asian tsunami, in terms of the damage and the numbers of people that can be killed.

We agree that every single foot of the I-walls is suspect. When asked, we have constantly urged anyone returning to New Orleans to exercise caution, because the system now in place could fail in a Category 2 storm. It has already failed during a fast-moving Category 3 storm that missed New Orleans by 30 miles.

We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't have any idea of.