The Gulf Oil Spill

[Denny Crane]

Can see the leak location. Can see Obama's location:

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...s?tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=

White House dismisses critics, defends Obama's golf outings during Gulf crisis
By Sam Youngman - 06/21/10 07:20 PM ET

The White House is dismissing criticism that President Barack Obama shouldn’t play golf during the Gulf oil spill.

 

[Denny Crane]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/22/judge-halts-obamas-oil-drilling-ban/

Judge halts Obama's oil-drilling ban

A federal judge in New Orleans halted President Obama's deepwater drilling moratorium on Tuesday, saying the government never justified the ban and appeared to mislead the public in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Judge Martin L.C. Feldman issued an injunction, saying that the moratorium will hurt drilling-rig operators and suppliers and that the government has not proved an outright ban is needed, rather than a more limited moratorium.

He also said the Interior Department also misstated the opinion of the experts it consulted. Those experts from the National Academy of Engineering have said they don't support the blanket ban.

"Much to the government's discomfort and this Court's uneasiness, the summary also states that 'the recommendations contained in this report have been peer-reviewed by seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.' As the plaintiffs, and the experts themselves, pointedly observe, this statement was misleading," Judge Feldman said in his 22-page ruling.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

OK, I've been on my back for a few weeks, but I'm a little surprised that I'm back and no one is talking about this. I guess we, here at S2, are like the nation's other celebrities, only find massive problems in the Gulf Coast and oil spills to be cause for outcry when it's the other guys in charge.

Anyway, Rolling Stone has a truly great expose on the spill and how it happened:

A friend of mine gives me his issues of Rolling Stone after he reads them, I've been really impressed with their coverage of stories that has nothing to do with music or celebs. The Gulf Oil Spill article was excellent. So is the current one on McChrystal. You'd think RS would be slanted to left but I've found their articles to be very "fair and balanced".

 

[MikeDC]

PJ O'Rourke, who's a big time libertarian/conservative did a lot of their foreign and political stuff through the 1990s. I totally agree that they're way better than average when they set their mind to it. Kind of like how when things are really bad in the Harry Potter books, the nutcase newspaper suddenly gets serious and accurate and all the "real" newspapers get taken over by Voldemort propaganda.

That chick who wrote those Harry Potter books is pretty bright and seems to be fundamentally libertarian her logic too. Most real artists are when you get down to it.

 

[Anima]

http://jalopnik.com/5570961/its-raining-oil-in-louisiana

 

[maxiep]

If this Administration keeps pushing BP, BP has weapons at its disposal: http://www.grist.org/article/2010-06-23-reasonably-high-chance-bp-files-for-bankruptcy/

BP made a huge mistake, no question about it. However, that doesn't mean they get to be a punching bag for political gain. Right now, they've pledged to make right what they can. That condition may not always be the case if they keep being villified by the people who did little to limit the environmental damage.

 

[maxiep]

http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+catastrophe/3203808/story.html

 

[bluefrog]

http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+catastrophe/3203808/story.html

It's not a bad article but it just seems like a lot of hearsay and conjecture by Dutch people. A lot of key facts are missing. There's no mention of the U.S. officials that turned down the superior Dutch oil cleaning technology or even specifics on how good their technology is. The article only mentions that their equipment cleans up "most of the oil" and spits out "nearly oil-free water" back into the ocean. Most of the oil could be 75% and nearly oil-free water could be 25% oil going back into the ocean. There's a mention that BP wanted the equipment but no quote to back up that assertion.