Judge blocks drilling moratorium


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Associated Press Reporting

A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, saying the government rashly concluded that because one rig failed, the others are in immediate danger, too.

The White House promised an immediate appeal. The Interior Department had halted approval of any new permits for deepwater drilling and suspended drilling of 33 exploratory wells in the Gulf.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama believes strongly that drilling at such depths does not make sense and puts the safety of workers "at a danger that the president does not believe we can afford."

Several companies that ferry people and supplies and provide other services to offshore drilling rigs asked U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans to overturn the moratorium.

They argued it was arbitrarily imposed after the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that killed 11 workers and blew out the well 5,000 feet underwater. It has spewed anywhere from 67 million to 127 million gallons of oil into the Gulf.

Feldman sided with the companies, saying in his ruling the Interior Department assumed that because one rig failed, all companies and rigs doing deepwater drilling pose an imminent danger.

"The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an unprecedented, sad, ugly and inhuman disaster," he wrote. "What seems clear is that the federal government has been pressed by what happened on the Deepwater Horizon into an otherwise sweeping confirmation that all Gulf deepwater drilling activities put us all in a universal threat of irreparable harm."

His ruling prohibits federal officials from enforcing the moratorium until a trial is held. He did not set a trial date.

The Interior Department said it needed time to study the risks of deepwater drilling. But the lawsuit filed by Hornbeck Offshore Services of Covington, La., claimed there was no proof the other operations posed a threat.

Company CEO Todd Hornbeck said after the ruling that he is looking forward to getting back to work.

"It's the right thing for not only the industry but the country," he said.

Earlier in the day, executives at a major oil conference in London warned that the moratorium would cripple world energy supplies. Steven Newman, president and CEO of Transocean Ltd., owner of the rig that exploded, called it an unnecessary overreaction. BP PLC was leasing the rig.

"There are things the administration could implement today that would allow the industry to go back to work tomorrow without an arbitrary six-month time limit," Newman told reporters on the sidelines of the conference.

The moratorium was declared May 6 and originally was to last only through the month. Obama announced May 27 that he was extending it for six months.

In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal and corporate leaders said that would force drilling rigs to leave the Gulf of Mexico for lucrative business in foreign waters.

They said the loss of business would cost the area thousands of lucrative jobs, most paying more than $50,000 a year. The state's other major economic sector, tourism, is a largely low-wage industry.

Tim Kerner, the mayor of Lafitte, La., cheered Feldman's ruling.

"I love it. I think it's great for the jobs here and the people who depend on them," said Kerner, whose constituents make their living primarily from commercial fishing or oil.

But in its response to the lawsuit, the Interior Department said the moratorium is needed as attempts to stop the leak and clean the Gulf continue and new safety standards are developed.

"A second deepwater blowout could overwhelm the efforts to respond to the current disaster," the Interior Department said.

The government also challenged contentions the moratorium would cause long-term economic harm. Although 33 deepwater drilling sites were affected, there are still 3,600 oil and natural gas production platforms in the Gulf.

Catherine Wannamaker, a lawyer for environmental groups that intervened in the case and supported the moratorium, called the ruling "a step in the wrong direction."

"We think it overlooks the ongoing harm in the Gulf, the devastation it has had on people's lives," she said. "The harm at issue with the Deepwater Horizon spill is bigger than just the Louisiana economy. It affects all of the Gulf."
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May as well strike it down cause with over 4000 well already in the Gulf, drilling is not the problem.

INSPECTION AND ENFORCING SAFETY REGULATIONS ARE. :lecture:
Digging a hole is the easy part and has not caused one oil spill anywhere. In fact, they drilling 2 more holes in the same area to tap into the one that is leaking so drilling is not the bad thing here.

If they had been inspecting these rigs from top to bottom like they should have been, that blowout preventer would have been working properly and this shat would not be happening. They ignored all the warning signs and complaint's of the workers on that rig for months.
 



I don't see why he stopped it in the first place. This along with killing the Constellation Program was a bad move.
 
I think they wanted to investigate to make sure all of the other companies were properly managing their rigs. Hopefully with the Interior Department and MMS cleaned out, this incident is not repeated.
 
number1 said:
I think they wanted to investigate to make sure all of the other companies were properly managing their rigs. Hopefully with the Interior Department and MMS cleaned out, this incident is not repeated.
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I highly doubt a 6 month moratorium had anything to do with investigating....that was purely for a political agenda.....they had to know a 6 month moratoriun would kill thousands of jobs in this area....Louisiana is not a democratic state.....and the worse this situation get the better for this administration to push their cap n trade and go green agenda....its fuked up how they worry more about their shitty agenda rather than the lives of the people here in the gulf region...

One accident and this white house is aggressively still trying to push this fuked up agenda....


Some of y'all need to stop looking at this real life stuff that effects us people as repub or dem....right now Obama and the dems are flat out wrong for this schit....
 
jstate83 said:
May as well strike it down cause with over 4000 well already in the Gulf, drilling is not the problem.

INSPECTION AND ENFORCING SAFETY REGULATIONS ARE. :lecture:
Digging a hole is the easy part and has not caused one oil spill anywhere. In fact, they drilling 2 more holes in the same area to tap into the one that is leaking so drilling is not the bad thing here.

If they had been inspecting these rigs from top to bottom like they should have been, that blowout preventer would have been working properly and this shat would not be happening. They ignored all the warning signs and complaint's of the workers on that rig for months.
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I vasilated. My first response was that the judge was wrong. After I read your comment I agreed with. After reading the other posts and thinking about it the president should be able to halt drilling.
If he feels that he needs to stop drilling because of what you sited, he should be able to do that. If drilling puts the very country at risk, then the president should be able to stop it. If people started building nuclear bombs, the president needs to have the power to stop it. If cyanide was a by product of making cars and those factories appeared all over the country, he can not let those companies kill all americans.
Maybe I am paranoid, overly portective, but I think many of these such actions (General Mc) are due to the color of the president.
 
This is not surprising. The initial moratorium was not very clear.

They need to (re)inspect the deep water wells/rigs and open up drilling as the well/rigs pass inspection. The MMS needed to be cleaned out from the top and they need to follow their own inspection procedures.
 
jag4life said:
This is not surprising. The initial moratorium was not very clear.

They need to (re)inspect the deep water wells/rigs and open up drilling as the well/rigs pass inspection. The MMS needed to be cleaned out from the top and they need to follow their own inspection procedures.
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MMS is the regulator agency? Then yes they all need to be fired. New drilling should be halted until what these clowns have signed off on can be reviewed. The inspections of wells need to be done over. You can not write your own inspections. Hold everything until honest people can investigate and supervise.
 
southsuburbs said:
The moratorium was done just for "show", the Administration knew it wouldn't hold water.
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So are they appealing the judges desicion for "show" too?..

And why would this president put thousands of people out of work for "show"

:retard:

Some of y'all say the craziest things......lol
 
C.O.G. said:
MMS is the regulator agency? Then yes they all need to be fired. New drilling should be halted until what these clowns have signed off on can be reviewed. The inspections of wells need to be done over. You can not write your own inspections. Hold everything until honest people can investigate and supervise.
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Its not required nor recommended to stop drilling to do inspections..

The experts the white house lied on and said they asked for a 6 month hault said that...

So either admit this was a bad decision or admit your share the political agenda this white house is ruining the lives of thousands of people to push...

Its just that simple...
 
The only thing that pisses me off about this hea government intervention is that it was the lack of government intervention from the "git go". I would attribute a lot of that to the Republicans pushing the "conservative views" or "small government views" and minimizing regulatory agencies with minimalistically-minded individuals who probably got a little bit of sumthin' sumthin' under the table. Not to mention that a lot of the Southern representation has a "hand" in that petroleum pot. So now that the situation is all jacked up, we WANT government intervention in a BIG way???? Anybody seeing the irony?

Either way, the moratorium is a no-win situation. You remove it and another drilling operation fails, then we have non-effective administration and mofos everywhere will whine and complain. You institute it, then the mofos who didn't want this administration are gonna whine and complain.

The moratorium is legit. The timeframe is what is quirky.

Anybody who ever worked on a mishap investigation will know that this is some serious junk....

I ain't sweating some of them lying folks in the oilfield and shrimping business. Everybody know the shrimpers don't report ALL of their income. That is why they are screaming about not being paid enough money by BP and the federal government. They are kinda like barbers and strippers...two book mofo's....

:lecture: :argue2: :retard:
 
It is crazy how these people are complaining about the claims system, but after Hurricane Katrina, we all saw how people try to take advantage of things.
 
Eleven people lost their lives during the explosion. Everyone, please don't forget that.

Eleven families lost their brother, father, son, grandson, uncle...yanno.

In all disasters:

1. Human cost
2. environmental cost
3. economics

However, most of us would switch No. 3 and No. 1.

My uncle worked on a rig near that one that blown up. I cannot imagine being one of those families that lost somebody, only to hear folk batch about some money.
 
It would be nice to see this current problem we have taken care of and have preventative measures from this repeating elsewhere from occurring before we play politics.

I understand why Obama would want to use this opportunity to push his "go green" agenda...but let's make sure that the oil gets controlled and the Gulf gets cleaned before we go there.

I don't see why these oil companies are in such a rush to get back to business, only for their shyt to mess up and we have a repeat problem occur. Then the same folks who are batching about the moratorium now would be batching if nothing gets done then. The way these folks are in such a rush to get back to drilling, I bet not another crisis like this occurs ever again though. Obama really got him a lose/lose situation here.

Damned if you don't...Damned if you do.
 



The six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling should have been struck down. Coal miners are killed in mining accidents; you don't have a moratorium on coal mining.

This accident is about to close down the fishing industry in the gulf, why shut down another one?
 
BG said:
The six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling should have been struck down. Coal miners are killed in mining accidents; you don't have a moratorium on coal mining.

This accident is about to close down the fishing industry in the gulf, why shut down another one?
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Has a coal mine accident ever caused an environmental catastrophe such as this? That's the diffeence. Fishermen are hurting now...much more than offshore oil workers. Their work location may never be the same.
 
jag4life said:
Has a coal mine accident ever caused an environmental catastrophe such as this? That's the diffeence. Fishermen are hurting now...much more than offshore oil workers. Their work location may never be the same.
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Is it me are you agree with "everything" Obama say or does?

I ain't know it was possible to agree with "everything" another man say or do...
~shrugs~
 
SUtrp96 said:
Is it me are you agree with "everything" Obama say or does?

I ain't know it was possible to agree with "everything" another man say or do...
~shrugs~
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No... You're mistaken. I've complained about his ignoring Black issues while catering to every other affinity group. I disagree with his cancelling of the Constellation program that has resulted in layoffs in Houston, Denver, and Huntsville. I disagree with the length of this drilling ban.

I don't disagree with a ban altogether, though. It was not well-thought out, but the main culprit in this was not only BP, but also the MMS....So something had to be done.


So what do you think about the seafood industry in Louisiana and MS and the number of folks there who may never be able to work along the coast again?
 
People you forget this happen in 79, the incident wasn't as big but closer to shore and fisherman were out of work and us out of local seafood for several yrs so this is nothing new.

The fisherman will fish again someday and in the meantime collect thousands of dollars from BP and the tax payers of Louisiana thru unemployment even though they were in business for themselves.

Not bad for a bunch of elementary school drop outs if you ask me.
 
jag4life said:
No... You're mistaken. I've complained about his ignoring Black issues while catering to every other affinity group. I disagree with his cancelling of the Constellation program that has resulted in layoffs in Houston, Denver, and Huntsville. I disagree with the length of this drilling ban.

I don't disagree with a ban altogether, though. It was not well-thought out, but the main culprit in this was not only BP, but also the MMS....So something had to be done.


So what do you think about the seafood industry in Louisiana and MS and the number of folks there who may never be able to work along the coast again?
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If you are against the length of the ban I don't understand why you support it at all...

I feel bad for the fisherman... but making sure safety measures are in place so something like this don't happen again don't call for a ban at all...

You can inspect the rigs while they are in operation... If a rig leave the gulf so they wont lose money sitting idle it's a strong possibility those rigs may not come back and if they do, no time soon...

We see what this did to the fisherman.... why hurt "more" people lives... unless it's for a political agenda... we all already know what that agenda is..
 
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