CCA Invited to Testify on Oil Spill before House Subcommittee
David Cresson, executive director of CCA Louisiana, testified before the House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife of the Committee today on the short and long term impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Cresson’s comments ranged from the economic impacts of the spill to the irreparable damage being done to the lives of coastal residents all along the Gulf Coast who depend on recreational angling.
David Cresson, CCA Louisiana executive director
“There have not been many challenges in the past 25 years that the members of CCA have not met head on, with their eyes clearly on the horizon. What I see now is a remarkably committed group of people who, for the moment at least, simply don’t know where to even begin,” Cresson said. “However, I have no doubt that we will find a way to reverse this disaster. I am confident that these darkest of days will be beaten back by the people of Louisiana and the other Gulf States through the same types of projects that have defined CCA since the beginning. We will rebuild reef by reef, acre by acre, fish by fish. When the leak is plugged and the last camera is turned off, when the rest of the world is no longer focused on the Gulf of Mexico, we will still be here, as we always have been, ready to do what needs to be done.”
Cresson was one of a handful of Gulf residents invited to testify before the Subcommittee. For a complete copy of his written remarks, click HERE, or click HERE for a video of Cresson’s testimony before the Subcommittee.