MMS Reissues Drilling Moratorium
[Guest post by DRJ]
The Houston Chronicle reports the Obama Administration will reissue a nearly identical offshore drilling moratorium that was previously overturned by a Louisiana federal district court and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals:
“According to a summary of the new order obtained by Hearst Newspapers and the Houston Chronicle, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s new ban — technically a suspension of deep-water drilling activities — would apply until Nov. 30, unless he decides to lift it earlier. The Interior Department is citing its authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act in imposing the four-month suspension.
In effect, the new suspension is largely a repeat of the May 30 order that halted drilling on 33 deep-water projects in the Gulf of Mexico — even though it is written with new nuance and detail.”
It isn’t just the Macondo project that is doomed. This will impact the entire Gulf Coast economy.
— DRJ
Do the people of the Gulf States have to hire The Magnificent Seven to deal with this banditry?
AD - RtR/OS! (809c7f) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:14 pmIt is going to affect a lot more than just the Gulf Coast by the time these idiots are done.
EW1(SG) (edc268) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:16 pmDoesn’t it have to be more than colorably different to not be subject to the same order?
Kevin Murphy (805c5b) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:19 pmSo what the courts have to say means nothing to Obowma …
bill-tb (541ea9) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:21 pmThe Lawless Obama administration.
SPQR (26be8b) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:24 pmBarracky has no idea how to keep people employed.Stopping people from going to work is not how one “creates or saves ” jobs.Saudia Arabia and every other sovereign hydrocarbon producer have gotten a good return on their campain contributions to Barrack H. Obama.
highpockets (fe389c) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:26 pmIt’s the disingenuousness that covers up the ineptitude.
We just need to get over it and recognize His true greatness.
GeneralMalaise (9cf017) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:29 pmHow in the world is he going to spin the economic disaster away as Bush’s fault when he’s doing crap like this?
What’s scary is that if he had any hope for a recovery, he wouldn’t dare threaten it like this. An economic recovery is probably the only hope Obama has to avoid being a punchline for centuries. He must think he can convince people the damage from these steps are vaguely somehow his inheritance. Like everything bad.
Dustin (b54cdc) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:44 pmObama says he never heard Jeremiah Wright bellow “God Damn America”.
He not only heard it, he believes he’s teh One to carry out the order, state by state.
Matador (5db43f) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:45 pmHere’s a link to the hole. Which, for the time being, appears to be capped and not leaking.
I hope this cap is a success.
Dustin (b54cdc) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:46 pmHere are links to BP’s live feeds from the ROVs.
DRJ (d43dcd) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:49 pmI really don’t see how they can seal the top of the well without also completing the bottom kill via the relief well. Simply sealing the top might cause the casing to perforate.
DRJ (d43dcd) — 7/12/2010 @ 4:51 pm“Barracky has no idea how to keep people employed.”
highpockets – Gubmint jobs is the answer.
daleyrocks (1d0d98) — 7/12/2010 @ 5:01 pmIf cap works maybe
ColonelHaiku (9cf017) — 7/12/2010 @ 5:15 pmtechnology transfers to
capping O bullsh*t
The problem, Colonel, is the drilling of the relief wells …
SPQR (26be8b) — 7/12/2010 @ 5:24 pmOnce the hole is plugged I await Baghdad Bob Gibbs telling us that it was Obama’s tireless dedication and unceasing application of his ideas that stopped the oil.
Deserving of a Nobel Physics and Nobel Peace Prize if you ask me.
MU789 (aae7a9) — 7/12/2010 @ 5:56 pmMy mistake. The well has a cap that is funneling more oil to the surface but it isn’t sealed.
DRJ (d43dcd) — 7/12/2010 @ 5:58 pmI’d like to nominate Obama for the Economics Prize, for “additional proof that central planning must fail.”
Kevin Murphy (5ae73e) — 7/12/2010 @ 8:18 pmThe Houston Chronicle reports the Obama Administration will reissue a nearly identical offshore drilling moratorium that was previously overturned by a Louisiana federal district court and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals:
Any chance of mounting another court challenge and this time getting the court to issue some kind of injunction ordering the feds to cease and desist with the repeated moratorium declarations?
Blacque Jacques Shellacque (cf2f34) — 7/13/2010 @ 1:18 amSO BP should pull all their stuff and sail away?
Today?
Neat will be designation of the entire Gulf as a notional monument using the antiquities act, like Klinton did….
It’s past time for the people to invoke THEIR will upon this bunch of wipes.
RTF (6e4708) — 7/14/2010 @ 1:59 am