Ken Salazar LIED and those lies were exposed with the newest ruling by a federal judge:
The court is unable to divine or fathom a relationship between the findings and the immense scope of the moratorium,” Feldman said in his 22-page decision. “The blanket moratorium, with no parameters, seems to assume that because one rig failed and although no one yet fully knows why, all companies and rigs drilling new wells over 500 feet also universally present an imminent danger.”
When Ken Salazar portrayed the situation as one way, drilling experts said the last thing one should do is close — in terms of safety — the affected 33 drilling rigs.
Ken Salazar bald-assed lied.
Realistically the closure would affect 7,000 people immediately and 30,000 jobs directly linked in the gulf region.
As in: those jobs would be gone.
What the Leftist media isn’t revealing is this: gulf fishing doesn’t provide any more. The bulk fishing industry is dead, killed by regulations. Shrimping is dead, fishing is dead — and the only sector providing jobs in the gulf is — wait for it — wait for it — petroleum.
Obama will appeal.
The decision should be known within the next two weeks.
However, if you’re in the mood for some salacious and pernicious irony, then let it be known that, though US Enviros forced drilling into massive depths (a mile or more down), the danger of which resulted in the current gulf spill (because drilling in shallow waters isn’t nearly as dangerous), this might ruffle your skirts:
Petrobras, Brazil’s petroleum consortium, was very recently given $2 billion dollars by Mr Obama for them to invest in extremely deep oil drilling. He’s not much interested in deep water drilling off US shores, as witness his 6-month moratorium, but he’s more interested in Brazil’s drilling as such.
Doesn’t that seem a bit odd to you, perchance?
Absent this inconvenient factoid: CUI BONO?
It occurred “way back when.”
This is a SET-UP. This is ILLEGAL. This is an ABORTION. This is WRONG. But, of course, because it occurs at the behest of a diluted genetic who claims black and embraces white when it saves him and embraces black when it saves him, he can do no wrong.
BZ
Unsafe for the US to drill beyond 500′. Absolutely, we will pay for it (if we only had money left), dead-on safe for Brazil to drill below 1,000′.
What is wrong with this picture?
Also Salazar knew there were problems for months before the blow out, and Obama in FEB 2010. They could have halted things to do a safety review, but I guess they were all too busy trying to figure out how to get a good golf game put together to bother with doing their damned jobs.
Not only does the oil industry have a 13:1 job ratio over shrimpers in LA, but Obama wants them ALL to lose their jobs by what he is doing in the Gulf. First Obama rejects foreign help. Then the USCG goes all safety minded and sidelines the skimmers. Now Fish & Wildlife stop the building of a berm as it might impact the salinity of the marshlands… say, how does a nice, thick coat of crude oil impact the marshlands?
More crass and blatant destruction of a Nation I have not seen in history… not even in Weimar was there this sort of problem.
With expected majorities in both Houses I expect impeachment proceedings to begin in JAN 2011. And as elections were held in the Union during the Civil War, I don’t expect any ’emergency’ to stop them. This charade must end. For all the hatred of the Left for capitalism, they sure do love the Soros puppet in the White House.
Good post BZ, and this is still just the tip of the iceberg…
Lining pockets for friends at the expense of the United States environment. Shame on Mr Obama indeed.
BZ