25 Quotes by Ivor Heerden

This was a bill put together by lobbyists without any involvement from scientists from Louisiana who know the situation.

What bothers me the most is all the people who've died unnecessarily.

People trusted the security of the levee system. More than 100,000 people lost everything. The government's at fault, and they should step up to the plate to give people some semblance of dignity.

No sewage, no drinking water, contamination, threat of rapid increase in mosquitoes, roads are impassible, downed power lines everywhere, trees, debris from houses in the roads, no way to go shopping, no gas.

The bottom line I got out of this is that unless you were a lobbyist, they did not want you to participate.

This is fairly typical of some of the failures we've seen. These walls underwent catastrophic structural failure.

They should have been monitoring this and informed people all the way to the top, then they should have warned people.

This is what we've been saying is going to happen for years.

It's going to be days before they get all that water out.