'Gasland' Documentary Shows Water That Burns, Toxic Effects Of Natural Gas Drilling (VIDEO)
Monday, June 21, 2010
In addition to BobbyJindal's & DavidVitters's request to lift the moratorium, we've already seen MaryLandrieu make a pitch for more drilling the very day after this disaster began. Obama hasn't shut down BP's other operations in US waters (Atlantis is potentially a worse nightmare than Deepwater Horizon and is still operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and according to reports last week, BP is moving ahead with drilling in the arctic). Obama's also moving ahead to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf at shallower depths, despite the fact that the Ixtoc and Montara blowouts that gushed for months were in shallow water.
If Louisiana's industries are 1) oil, gas, chemicals, and 2) fishing and tourism, and fishing and tourism is destroyed, how else is Louisiana going to make up the state's lost revenues if not by increasing offshore drilling?
And if BP were held responsible, 100%, for the damage & went bankrupt, the costs would fall to the US taxpayer (or it wouldn't be paid or cleaned up at all). Other oil conglomerates would step up & reap the benefit of unlimited drilling in a ruined Gulf of Mexico.
We need to get off of an oil economy, and not gradually. This isn't a job for the "split the difference"-"cut the baby in two"-Barack Obama. This calls for bold leadership
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