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Louie Miller, the state director of the Sierra Club, disagrees with Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Director Bill Walker's assessment that it's time stop Gulf municipalities' clean-up work connected with the BP oil well.

Calling Walker's Aug. 6 order to end the cleanup, which is funded by a $25 million BP grant, "an outrage in any way shape or form," Miller said in an interview with the Better Mississippi Group that just because oil apparently is no longer leaking from the Macondo well off the Louisiana Coast, the nightmare disaster isn't over.

"We've got approximately 103 million gallons of oil that is unaccounted for right now," Miller said.

"This is far from over. We know for a fact that after the Valdez spill, it was four years before the herring fish stocks ... collapsed. Nobody knows why because—guess what—they declared victory and went back to the house."

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