councilmen in plaquemines parish filing lawsuits against the oil and gas industry now we have to be paying attention to every council meeting in the parish, and we have to make sure that we have pro oil and gas councilmen elected. this is an incredible amount of money that the industry is having to spend, not investing, not drilling new wells not paying employees not doing the things that we wanna be doing but simply defending lawsuits. >> these all-encompassing lawsuits to sue the industry so you can force a settlement so the lawyers can make a bunch of money isn't going to solve any of the problems that louisiana has with our coast. >> so your assessment of liability is zero? >> i haven't seen anything that would indicate that there was a violation of any permit issues to the oil & gas industry, at this point, no. >> the industry itself has acknowledged that in excess of a third of it is directly a result of industry activity, that's according to a report.... >> there have been studies that have put the impact at very different levels. but ag

in louisiana, plaquemine's parish president billy feared what was coming. >> when it did surface ands out there offshore, everyone along this coast was worried that it was coming to shore. >> then came the image that horrified americans. live under water pictures of the well itself, gushing oil.water well itself, gushing oil. >> cnn had that shot in the corner of the television all of the time. it was horrific. >> janet napolitano was head of homeland security. >> bp alerted us to additional oil leaking from their deep under water well. >> but the federal government could do almost nothing to stop the relentless flow. >> there is a very confusing statute that came into play and it said that bp was the responsible party, therefore, they were our partner. >> in other words, the government had to rely on the polluter, bp, to fix it. >> it was a foreign company that came here and seemed to be making all of the decisions. and that is unfortunate. >> juliette was in charge of coordinating the government's response. >> and there was no other way. >> no other way. i mean, so you get rid of b

. >> former >> former plaquemines parish governor says this is the unseen damage of the bp oil spill.any, a way of life that may be ending. >> louisiana seafood is the best in the world. and so, the livelihood of a lot of people depend on it. not just the fishermen. people that work in the restaurants, people that distribute. there's a whole culture here and a whole way of life that for the last five years, as it's come back, and it has some, what is going to be the long-term effects and will there be a drop-off at some point that won't be sustainable? and that's the unknown question. >> and you're saying, not only is there a lingering fear, was there's a lingering fear that's preventing reinvestment or investment in the future? >> well, i think some -- you know, some of the futurermen have sold their boats. some of them have opted to try to do other things. and that's sad, because you know, a lot of these people, this is in their blood. it's been in their families for generations. >> out in the gulf, one industry is coming back. still ahead, the hunt for oil is going deeper and farth

how about billy nungesser, the plaquemines parish president at the time? a lot of people have a lot to say. if there was somebody fully in charge of that response, i would be glad to know it but it wasn't actually a parent -- apparent to me. a year later after the disaster and catastrophic failure of the nuclear power plant, who was in charge? again, impossible to determine who was in charge. that is the problem. from the message into the strategies to stop the damage, this is a question and these are questions never properly answered. and if it were answered or some entity was in charge, it was a closely held secret. if that there was a very large scale emergency that requires all health and public health hands on deck in new york city who would call the shots? command center but who makes the final decision? the mayor, the governor, the health department of the city? some years ago the true story of a ceo of one of the largest systems in new york city said to me that in terms i will not use here because i don't know all of you as well as i could [laughte