Oil Spill

[twyacht]

FQ:
And does anyone wonder I like this woman? Grin

Well, as a stark raving Progressive, which she is, why not like her FQ?

Why is the U.S providing $2 BILLION dollars to Petrobras. Also known as Petro-Brazil, a $15 BILLION dollar a year corp. whose largest share holder is our buddy George Soros...?

Why is Joe Podesta,BHO, advisor, Board Member of CAP's (Center For American Progress),and his brother Tony, who is on the Board. at BP, supporting Petrobras with research and funding, which they don't need, with money we don't have, to drill even deeper (14,000 feet) off S. America??

Yet saying nothing about a six month moratorium for OUR waters.....

Think outside the box FQ, and quit watching dyke Libs, on a low rated network,...it's not doing you well...

Kool-Aid intoxication can be harmful.

[philw]

Judge overturns Gulf drilling freeze
http://www.news.com.au/world/judge-overturns-gulf-drilling-freeze/story-e6frfkyi-1225883055811

A US judge overnight ruled against a six-month freeze slapped on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and the White House immediately announced it would appeal the ruling.

Judge Martin Feldman ruled in favour of 32 oil firms which challenged the moratorium on deepwater drilling and exploration imposed by us President Barack Obama's administration in the wake of the massive Gulf oil spill.

Judge Feldman ruled in the New Orleans court that the oil firms motion for a "preliminary injunction is granted", saying he was persuaded it was in the public interest to lift the freeze by the Minerals Management Service.

"The court has found the plaintiffs would likely succeed in showing that the agency's decision was arbitrary and capricious," he said in his written ruling.

and now your tax $$$ at work again  
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/white-house-to-appeal-ruling-against-obamas-gulf-oil-drill-ban/story-e6frg6so-1225883232428

US judge has struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as rash and heavy-handed.

US District Court judge Martin Feldman said the government had simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an imminent danger, too.

The White House promised an immediate appeal. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said later he would in the next few days issue a new order imposing a moratorium that will eliminate any doubt it is needed and appropriate.

The Interior Department had imposed the moratorium last month in the wake of the BP disaster, halting approval of any new permits for deepwater projects and suspending drilling on 33 exploratory wells.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Barack Obama believes that until investigations can determine why the spill happened, continued deepwater drilling exposes workers and the environment to “a danger that the president does not believe we can afford”.

Several companies that ferry people and supplies and provide other services to offshore rigs argued that the moratorium was arbitrarily imposed after the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers and blew out a well 1,525 metres underwater. It has spewed anywhere from 253 million litres to 480 million litres of oil.

Judge Feldman, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and has owned stock in a number of petroleum-related companies, sided with the plaintiffs.

“If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are?” he asked. “Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil tankers like Exxon Valdez? All trains? All mines? That sort of thinking seems heavy-handed, and rather overbearing.”

He also warned that the shutdown would have an “immeasurable effect” on the industry, the local economy and the US energy supply.

Judge Feldman's ruling was welcomed by the oil and gas industry and decried by environmentalists.

The judge's financial disclosure report for 2008, the most recent available, shows holdings in at least eight petroleum companies or funds that invest in them, including Transocean Ltd., which owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that blew up. The report shows that most of his holdings were valued at less than $15,000; it did not provide specific amounts.

The 2008 report showed that he did not own any individual shares in big companies such as BP, which leased the rig that exploded, or ExxonMobil.

Josh Reichert, managing director of the Pew Environment Group, said the ruling should be rescinded if the judge still has investments in companies that could benefit.

“If Judge Feldman has any investments in oil and gas operators in the Gulf, it represents a flagrant conflict of interest,” Mr Reichert said.

Judge Feldman's ruling prohibits federal officials from enforcing the moratorium until a trial is held. At least two major oil companies, Shell and Marathon, said they would wait to see how the appeals play out before resuming drilling.

In his ruling, the judge called the spill “an unprecedented, sad, ugly and inhuman disaster”, but said Mr Salazar's rationale for the moratorium “does not seem to be fact-specific and refuses to take into measure the safety records of those others in the Gulf.”

Judge Feldman said he was “unable to divine or fathom a relationship between the findings and the immense scope of the moratorium”.

The judge said the blanket moratorium “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”.

In Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal and corporate leaders had complained that the moratorium would cost the region thousands of lucrative jobs, most paying more than $50,000 a year.

Tim Kerner, mayor of the fishing town of Lafitte, Louisiana, cheered the ruling. “I love it. I think it's great for the jobs here and the people who depend on them,” he said.

[billt]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37841204/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf

This just keeps getting worse. A robotic sub hits a vent cap, causing an even larger leak. Captains dieing of gunshot wounds? Talk about out of control!  Bill T.