On the heels of Rush Limbaugh suggesting actual sabotage by environmentalists, Sarah Palin is joining the cause in blaming environmentalists for the oil spill by British Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico.
Palin blamed “misguided radicalism” of environmentalists (as opposed presumably to “guided radicalism” of conservatives) for the disaster. She suggested that, if only these poor struggling oil companies were allowed to drill in wildlife reserves and close to our shores, they would not have to seek oil in the deep ocean.
She added “[t]his is a message to extreme ‘environmentalists’ who hypocritically protest domestic energy production offshore and onshore. There is nothing ‘clean and green’ about your efforts. With your non-sensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you’re doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet . . . Your hypocrisy is showing. You’re not preventing environmental hazards; you’re outsourcing them and making drilling more dangerous.”
In the meantime, members of Congress and oil lobbyists are demanding that the moratorium on drilling be lifted immediately.
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CCD:
“Byron per Milling’s article how do you reconcile the locals disaffected by this catastrophe?”
I certainly believe BP should make whole anyone affected by the spill in a negative way if it can be proved that negligence was in fact the cause. I am not a lawyer so I am unsure if you can award damages if there is no proof of negligence.
And certainly those people should be allowed to sue for reimbursement of lost wages, property, etc. BP is the apparent cause of the problem, if so they should be the ones responsible for the fix. I certainly don’t want my tax dollars going to bail them out. Especially since they seem to have a very productive well. It is probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars if they can ever get it into production.
AY:
“Now if you think of it in a true capitalist approach, just think of all of the new industry’s and work started up because of the oil leak(s). This is true capitalism in action don’t you agree?”
Yes I do and Kevin Costner is proof of that statement. When there is money to be made, people can be very resourceful and inventive. It is funny how that seems to work, well actually it isn’t funny it is reality.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/saint_sarah_at_newsweek.html
Efforts to Limit the Flow of Spill News
When the operators of Southern Seaplane in Belle Chasse, La., called the local Coast Guard-Federal Aviation Administration command center for permission to fly over restricted airspace in Gulf of Mexico, they made what they thought was a simple and routine request.
A pilot wanted to take a photographer from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans to snap photographs of the oil slicks blackening the water. The response from a BP contractor who answered the phone late last month at the command center was swift and absolute: Permission denied.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/us/10access.html
That was then, this is now.
P.S. it’s da pot plus handicapped to begin with 🙂
Bdaman,
So you have a problem with intellectual dishonesty? This is some sorta joke right?
Does it surprise you that one in elected office would skew data from a report and then interpret it to support something?
You must be kidding, are smokin crack or what? It certainly ain’t weed, it don’t dumb you down this much.
Think W…..Think Cheney…..Think Oil…..Think….Iraq…..Think faulty data used for justification of going against Iraq……and guess what he ain’t the first critter in office to lie or is that lye or lay or get laid to really bad.
Oh My!… Team Obama Fudged Report to Push Their Oil Drilling Moratorium.
Team Obama fudged a report to support their drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
A group of oil drilling experts claimed that the Obama Administration misrepresented their views in order to put a hold on drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
FOX News reported:
The seven experts who advised President Obama on how to deal with offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon explosion are accusing his administration of misrepresenting their views to make it appear that they supported a six-month drilling moratorium — something they actually oppose.
The experts, recommended by the National Academy of Engineering, say Interior Secretary Ken Salazar modified their report last month, after they signed it, to include two paragraphs calling for the moratorium on existing drilling and new permits.
Salazar’s report to Obama said a panel of seven experts “peer reviewed” his recommendations, which included a six-month moratorium on permits for new wells being drilled using floating rigs and an immediate halt to drilling operations.
“None of us actually reviewed the memorandum as it is in the report,” oil expert Ken Arnold told Fox
News. “What was in the report at the time it was reviewed was quite a bit different in its impact to what there is now. So we wanted to distance ourselves from that recommendation.”
Salazar apologized to those experts Thursday.
Obama’s oil drilling moratorium will cost this country tens of thousands of jobs and may take years to recover from.
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/06/oh-my-team-obama-fudged-report-to-push-their-oil-drilling-moratorium/
No accident where the Papa Roach video was shot.
Your getting away with murder
The Spill, The Scandal and the President
The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world’s most dangerous oil company get away with murder.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0
So state law can trump federal law as the act states that it does not pre-empt state law(s).
It seems to me that it says 150 million but I may be misreading this. I do think that congress can act to increase this amount and should by any means necessary. The is the Code that you cite under the Federal Regulations.
AY:
Signed into law in 1990, by 41. The liability cap is larger than 75 million?
From the EPA
http://www.epa.gov/emergencies/content/lawsregs/opaover.htm
1016 Offshore facilities are required to maintain evidence of financial responsibility of $150 million and vessels and deepwater ports must provide evidence of financial responsibility up to the maximum applicable liability amount. Claims for removal costs and damages may be asserted directly against the guarantor providing evidence of financial responsibility.
1018(a) The Clean Water Act does not preempt State Law. States may impose additional liability (including unlimited liability), funding mechanisms, requirements for removal actions, and fines and penalties for responsible parties.
Byron:
The investigation into BP, Halburton and Transocean’s roles at Deepwater Horizon will expose their circumvention of regulations and best stewardship practices. BP put their profits ahead of everyone. Wendy Milling analysis completely discounts the (Gulf) environment and the people who had a livelihood at the local level, fishing industry and tourism. Byron per Milling’s article how do you reconcile the locals disaffected by this catastrophe?
Two weeks ago Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) requested more oil boom to save the Louisiana marshes.
The company notified the government 4 WEEKS AGO
TAPPER: I talked to a guy who runs a company in Maine that offers boom, and he has – he says – the ability to make 90,000 feet of boom a day. High quality. BP came there 2 weeks ago, looked at it, they are doing another audit today. He is very frustrated, he says he has a lot of high quality boom to go and it is taking a long time for BP to get its act together. Don’t you need this boom right now?
ALLEN: Oh we need all the boom wherever we can get it. If you give me the information off camera I’ll be glad to follow up.
Slartibartfast,
Dang ya, I had to search until I found it. Here it is:
Has founded with his brother Dan, the Costner Industries Nevada Corporation (CINC) in Carson City. This company product a Liquid-Liquid Centrifugal Separator using clean-up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000126/bio
All’s I can say is wow.
Slarti,
Copy that. Costner’s brother’s device seems to work like a charm.
AY,
I’m thinking that the capitalist hero of this Waterworld is going to turn out to be Kevin Costner…
The 75 million cap can be resolved by an act of congress. That’s all it takes is congress to act.
Bryon,
I think that the issue is being resolved. The 75 mil cap was implemented under Bush. If Bush was still in office we’d all be paying for it. I hope that Obama (I did not vote for) does the right thing and places them in receivership to ascertain that they are not pulling a GM and transferring assets to other companies and subsidiaries to deplete financial reserves. (Think Enron.)
I understand the Governor of Fl has asked BP for 2 billion just in case they are put into receivership.
I also understand that either Obama or someone is meeting with BP in England and the PM of England to discuss hows this can all be resolved.
Just think of how much of the worlds economy depends upon BP for employment, taxes, revenues and all of the spin off industries, like Hotels, Motels, Auto Manufactures, eatery’s, grocery stores. The list is endless if you catch my drift.
Now if you think of it in a true capitalist approach, just think of all of the new industry’s and work started up because of the oil leak(s). This is true capitalism in action don’t you agree?