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In This Issue

Disputing Feinberg

Gulf RestorationFinancial Briefing

Gulf CoastLeadership Summit

Our Solutions forSuccess

Testimonial

Quick Links

Documents

Website

Meet The Staff

Featured AudioGOOD NEWS

WWNO - NPR

Radio Link

One Senator's Plan

Senator MaryLandrieu Wants

Nonprofits inBP Claims

Process -Hearings For

Health,ComplaintsFrom Spill

Volume IJune 2011

Greetings!

Welcome to the inaugural newsletter of the Gulf CoastLeadership Forum, a new independent organization dedicatedto empowering a healthy and economically vibrant U.S. GulfCoast! Each issue of the newsletter will provide you with GulfCoast news, our accomplishments, and our plans for thefuture. Please send us your comments and feedback so wecan grow together!

Gulf Coast Leadership Forum DisputesFeinberg Claims That There Are NoHealth Problems From Oil Spill

New Orleans - June 8, 2011. TheGulf Coast Leadership Forum isdisputing assertions from GulfCoast Claims Facility Czar Kenneth

Feinberg that Gulf Coast residentsare not experiencing medicaldifficulties from last year's BP oilspill and the subsequent use oftoxic dispersants.

On Monday, Feinberg told

Louisiana lawmakers that he hasn't seen any medicallinkage of the oil and dispersants and health problems.

"This assertion is nonsense," said Gulf CoastLeadership Forum Chairman William Loiry. "Medicalevidence from Florida to Texas indicates that at least100,000 Americans are suffering health problems as aresult of the oil spill and the toxic dispersants. Thenumber could be much higher. This is a nationaltragedy which must be addressed openly andtruthfully."

Feinberg was a featured speaker at the Gulf CoastLeadership Summit in April, convened by the GulfCoast Leadership Forum. The Summit included generalsessions on Gulf Coast health and the environment aswell as a general session on the concerns of Gulf Coastresidents. Numerous Gulf Coast residents spoke about

their medical difficulties arising from the oil spill anddispersants and told Feinberg during the Summit'sconcluding General Session about their healthproblems.

Subsequently, the U.S. Department of Health andHuman Services has asked the Gulf Coast LeadershipForum to help it provide training to doctors andmedical facilities throughout the Gulf Coast to respondto the increasing oil-related medical crisis.

In addition, the Gulf Coast Leadership Forum will beorganizing a major conference on the Gulf Coast healthcrisis and is working with Silicon Valley to develop adatabase to track individual medical cases related tothe oil and dispersants.

Kenneth Feinberg
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Coastal

Briefing

Dr. RobertThomas of

Loyola Sevedas Moderator

AttorneyDaniel BecnelOffers Free

Legal Services

Dr. AlyssaDausman on

behalf of EPA'sGulf Coast

Ecosystem TaskForce

Dr. Charles Allen,III

Executive DirectorMandi ThompsonDiscusses GCLF

Initiatives

St. Bernard ParishPresident Craig

Taffaro ProvidesKeynote Address

Briefing Highlights $1 Billion for CoastalRestoration

Responding to BP's $1 billioncontribution for coastal restoration,the Gulf Coast Leadership Forumconvened the Coastal RestorationFinancing Briefing on May 10, 2011at Tulane University in NewOrleans.

Dr. Alyssa Dausman, representing the Gulf Coast EcosystemRestoration Task Force, provided an overview of new coastalrestoration programs and financing. St. Bernard ParishPresident Craig Taffaro provided the Keynote Address. AndDr. Robert Thomas, Director of Loyola University's Center forEnvironmental Communication, served as moderator.

Other speakers included Mark Wingate from the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers; Windell Curole, Executive Director, SouthLafourche Levee District; Trudy Fisher, Executive Director,Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality; KeithWilkins, Deputy Bureau Chief, Community & EnvironmentBureau, Escambia County, Florida; Nicholas Matherne,Director, Office of Coastal Restoration & Preservation,Terrebonne Parish; Charles E. Allen, III, Director, Coastal andEnvironmental Affairs, City of New Orleans; Marnie Winter,Director, Environmental Affairs, Jefferson Parish; John Lopez,Acting Director, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation; andDavid Doss, State Director for U.S. Senator David Vitter.

Attorney Daniel E. Becnel, Jr. announced that his firm is

providing free services to help companies and organizationswin coastal restoration contracts.

Success of Gulf CoastLeadership Summit

The inaugural Gulf Coast LeadershipSummit, held April 18 21, 2011 in NewOrleans, provided an invaluable serviceto New Orleans and residents of the U.S.Gulf Coast:

The Summit brought together hundreds of business,government, nonprofit, and community leaders todiscuss specific strategies to empower a healthy andeconomically vibrant Gulf Coast.

Senator Bob Graham and Members of the National OilSpill Commission pushed for implementation ofregulations which would help prevent another oil spilldisaster.

Ken Feinberg promised nonprofit organizations that hewould look into reimbursing them for servicesrendered to Gulf Coast residents affected by the oilspill.

Senator Mary Landrieu promised Gulf Coast residentsthat she would make their oil spill-related healthconcerns a major priority.

And Senator Landrieu used the Summit's Concluding

General Session to announce BP's $1 billioncontribution for Gulf Coast coastal recovery.

More than 700 leaders and residents participated in thevarious events of the Summit, which included numerousgeneral sessions, a town hall meeting, press conferences andinterviews, networking events, receptions, and a solutionsexpo.

Dozens of speakers made powerful presentations on a widerange of Gulf Coast topics, including pending oil spill

regulations, the impact of the oil spill on communities,speeding the oil spill compensation process, health


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Leadership

Summit

2011

Cynthia Sartou,GRN, Presents at

the Summit

CongressmanJoseph Cao at VIP

Reception

David FreedmanAddressesSummit

Dr. Wilma Subra talks

Healthcare at thesummit

William Loiry withfriends

Billy NungesserPlaqueminesParish President

perspectives, environmental and coastal restoration, cleanenergy, and economic development. Speakers included

Senator Bob Graham, Co-Chairman of the National Oil SpillCommission; U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu; U.S. Rep. CedricRichmond; U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise; Gulf Coast Claims FacilityAdministrator Kenneth Feinberg; attorney Daniel E. Becnel,Jr.; Louisiana State Senator A.G. Crowe; Plaquemines ParishPresident Billy Nungesser; Jefferson Parish President John

Young; Orange Beach, Alabama Mayor Tony Kennon;Escambia County, Florida Commissioner Grover Robinson;Entergy CEO Charles Rice; Alabama Coastal RecoveryCommission Chairman Ricky Mathews; Gulf RestorationNetwork Executive Director Cynthia Sarthou; LSU School ofPubic Health Dean Elizabeth Fontham; and dozens of otherleaders.

Local, regional, national, and international media coverage ofthe Summit was substantial.

Gulf Coast Leadership Forum InitiativesOur Solutions for a Successful Future

What the Gulf Coast LeadershipForum does is empower a healthyand economically vibrant U.S. GulfCoast. We facilitate solutions. Oursolutions for success include:

Making the Gulf Coast health crisis a national priority,so that sick Americans can get the medical helpthey deserve.

Emphasizing the recommendations of the National OilSpill Commission, so that we do not repeat the BP oildisaster.

Facilitating strategies to protect the Gulf Coast fromfuture man-made and natural disasters.

Helping companies and organizations win coastalrestoration contracts.

Creating new jobs by empowering new Gulf Coastindustries, such as clean energy

Testimonial:

"If the purpose of the Gulf CoastLeadership Summit was to be theremier event of the first anniversary

of the Macondo tragedy, then youhave exceeded your aspirations. Itwas attended by the people mostinvolved, focused their attention onnot just the event itself, but whatsteps are needed to mitigate arepetition, and was engaging for all.

Congratulations."

Senator Bob GrahamCo-ChairmanNational Oil Spill CommissionApril 22, 2011

ChairmanWilliam Loirywith Summit

KeynoteSpeaker

Senator BobGraham


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Empowering a healthy and economically vibrant Gulf Coast.

Sincerely,

William LoiryChairmanGulf Coast Leadership ForumClick image for more about Bill Loiry

Mandi ThompsonExecutive DirectorGulf Coast Leadership Forum(504) 322 - 3568 Gulf Coast OfficeClick image for more about Mandi Thompson
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