Deepwater Drilling Moratorium: Administration BACKING DOWN From Full Ban
BP's going ahead with their most ambitious offshore drilling project in US waters yet (with the government's blessing):
“We’ll be doing a number of things that have never been done before,” said Doug Suttles, the then president of BP Exploration (Alaska), when in July 2009 he announced the BP board’s final approval of the Liberty development. “We’ll be drilling the longest wells ever drilled.”
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Obama is letting BP continue its other drilling operations, including the Atlantis which is in as bad/worse shape as Deepwater Horizon.
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Deepwater Drilling Moratorium: Administration BACKING DOWN From Full Ban
If Bobby Jindal was all that, he'd be working with private industries to bring green sustainable energy projects to his state -- All of the Gulf states' governors would be doing that. But they're not.
All they're doing is trying to expand toxic businesses in their states, that wind up making their citizens sick or worse.
Obama has no plan to get the US off of oil -- If he did, he would be doing these things:
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About Gulf Oil Spill
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Deepwater Drilling Moratorium: Administration BACKING DOWN From Full Ban
The government should be working with private industries to bring green sustainable energy projects to the states directly involved in this disaster.
But that's not happening.
Obama has no plan to get the US off of oil -- If he did, he would be doing these things:
http://www
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Deepwater Drilling Moratorium: Administration BACKING DOWN From Full Ban
What we have is a catastrophic failure of government, by BOTH parties.
In 1995, Clinton signed the Deepwater Royalty Relief Act to encourage drilling offshore.
While the government required, by law, oil companies to file & put into place disaster plans in the event of a catastrophic failure, they knew that the oil companies' plans were bogus. There's no way that the government (Congress & presidential administrations) didn't know that all of the oil companies falsified disaster plans.
Both Democrats & Republicans allowed the issuance of permits to drill offshore, in ecologically sensitive areas, to potentially destroy Americans' food supplies & our source of oxygen (80% of the earth's oxygen comes from the oceans).
There's no way to drill offshore safely. Not in any depth of water.
Ixtoc in 1979 & Montara in 2009 (both blowouts that gushed for months) were in shallow water. Relief wells are no guarantee, carry with them the same risks. Five relief wells had to be drilled before Montara's gushing could be stopped.
Blow Out Preventers (BOPs) have a 50% failure rate. http://www
ALL offshore drilling must stop, but Obama intends to continue offshore drilling, in both deep & shallow waters. Obama's 6-month moratorium & Commission is window-dressing, a phony show, an attempt to stall efforts to end the oil economy. The moratorium's end isn't dependent on any Commission report & the Commission has no time deadline.
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