A federal judge’s decision today to block a six-month moratorium on new deep-water drilling projects is extremely shortsighted. If anything, the temporary ban that President Barack Obama declared in May should be made permanent.
At the very least, we need a moratorium to allow regulators time to study what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico so that we know best how to prevent it from ever happening again.
Now, Congress needs to step in and act immediately to ensure that the health and safety of oil rig workers and Gulf residents is not compromised by future deepwater drilling. Until a technology is perfected that can stop oil flowing a mile beneath the surface of the ocean, we cannot move forward on deepwater drilling.
Tyson Slocum is the director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program.
Mary Ellen Pearson
For all of us, There is a capping off process which is in place very easily and quickly that most European Companies use. It isn’t even expensive. It’s just the usual Big Money owned politicians not taking any responsibility at all. Did you see the projected income of BP this year and the billions in buyout that incompetent Secretary Salazar and incompetent owned politicians pay back favors.
Let’s also stop, Big Money from owning and beiing owed so many favors by the politicians whose legally mandated positions are to represent, “We The People. Amen and Yes Sir God!~!~!
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