La. Companies Ask Federal Judge To Lift Obama's Drill Ban for fear of lost jobs.

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La. Companies Ask Judge To Lift Obama's Drill Ban
ap ^ | Jun 21, 2010 1:24 pm US/Pacific | no byline

Companies that ferry people and supplies to offshore oil rigs asked a federal judge Monday to lift a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects imposed in the aftermath of the massive Gulf spill.

U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman heard two hours of arguments Monday and said he will decide by Wednesday whether to overturn the ban imposed by President Barack Obama's administration after the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.

Obama's administration has also been struggling to show it is responding forcefully to the spill. As part of that effort, the Interior Department halted the approval of any new permits for deepwater drilling and suspended drilling at 33 existing exploratory wells in the Gulf.

But a lawsuit filed by the Covington-based Hornbeck Offshore Services of Covington, La., claims the government arbitrarily imposed the moratorium without any proof that the operations posed a threat. Hornbeck says the moratorium could cost Louisiana thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in lost wages.

"This is an extraordinary time for the Gulf Coast. It calls out for an extraordinary remedy," plaintiffs' attorney Carl Rosenblum said in court Monday.

Government lawyers said the Interior Department has demonstrated that industry regulators need more time to study the risks of deepwater drilling and identify ways to make it safer.


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Good for these companies!  There is no justification for this whatsoever and the Commie-in-Chief is knowingly putting people out into the street. 

Screw him and I hope more people take on this disgusting administration on all fronts.   

[240 is Back]

They're gonna complain either way.

If he was letting the drilling continue - and a SECOND drill blew up- he'd be skewered for allowing what we now KNOW to be an uncontollable force (oil from undergruond at PSI pressure our technicaly can't stop).

The ability to stop oil isn't there yet.  It might leak for 100 years dude.  it might kill the whole planet.  we don't know.  it was a major fck up to allow it to reach this point, and obama knows it now.  So, he's OWNING it.  he's stopping it.  I'm sure he'll start it once the companies can show they can STOP these things.

[Soul Crusher]

They're gonna complain either way.

If he was letting the drilling continue - and a SECOND drill blew up- he'd be skewered for allowing what we now KNOW to be an uncontollable force (oil from undergruond at PSI pressure our technicaly can't stop).

The ability to stop oil isn't there yet.  It might leak for 100 years dude.  it might kill the whole planet.  we don't know.  it was a major fck up to allow it to reach this point, and obama knows it now.  So, he's OWNING it.  he's stopping it.  I'm sure he'll start it once the companies can show they can STOP these things.

The green nazis would complain, but cares?  People need to eat and feed their families. 

[240 is Back]

The green nazis would complain, but cares?  People need to eat and feed their families. 

Do you know that 1, 2, or 5 years of that oil leaking continuously will do to our atmosphere and our food?

Do you know how many humans will be on this planet in 10 years if this leak doesn't stop?

The oil pressure is beyond what mankind can stop.   until BP and the other companies put some of these record profits into "OIL CONTROL TECHNOLOGY", I'm all for them not drilling.

[BM OUT]

Do you know that 1, 2, or 5 years of that oil leaking continuously will do to our atmosphere and our food?

Do you know how many humans will be on this planet in 10 years if this leak doesn't stop?

The oil pressure is beyond what mankind can stop.   until BP and the other companies put some of these record profits into "OIL CONTROL TECHNOLOGY", I'm all for them not drilling.

If the retarded dumb ass lib idiots would let them drill ON LAND we wouldnt have this problem.This spill is 100% lib enviro kooks fault!!100%.

[240 is Back]

If the retarded dumb ass lib idiots would let them drill ON LAND we wouldnt have this problem.This spill is 100% lib enviro kooks fault!!100%.

Billy,

Would you be cool with an oil rig 1/2 mile from your home?  yes or no?

[Soul Crusher]

Do you know that 1, 2, or 5 years of that oil leaking continuously will do to our atmosphere and our food?

Do you know how many humans will be on this planet in 10 years if this leak doesn't stop?

The oil pressure is beyond what mankind can stop.   until BP and the other companies put some of these record profits into "OIL CONTROL TECHNOLOGY", I'm all for them not drilling.

This is the first accident in 40 years.  BP was negligent and has an atrocious record on safety.  Why should everyone else suffer?  

why cant they keep drilling go an examine and inspect the cuirrent rigs while drilling is going on?  

If 2 747's exploded tommorow for no reason, would you be for banning airflights?  

[BM OUT]

Billy,

Would you be cool with an oil rig 1/2 mile from your home?  yes or no?

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And while your at you can build a nuke plant in my backyard!!!!!I love progress!!!!I love energy!!!!I want my house at 75 degrees all winter,I want to drive a gas guzzler thousans of miles a year.

By the way,please tell me who is living in Anwar that drilling would bother.

[Danny]

The green nazis would complain, but cares?  People need to eat and feed their families. 

Green nazi? God you are fuckin dense. People all over the world are worried about the potential destructive force of this thing. Green nazi my ass....tell that to the families of the 11 people that died in this thing. Yes, I agree drilling jobs might be lost with this moratorium, and I feel really bad for those people but as 240 said imagine what would happen if they don't figure what went wrong and a second rig explodes. Just as NASA did with the space shuttle program after Challenger, this government has to find out and sort trough the bullshit BP has offered lately. I see a resemblance between BP and Van Der Sloot here, their stories keep changing every fuckin day...but we're still suppose to trust them to self regulate  

[Danny]

If the retarded dumb ass lib idiots would let them drill ON LAND we wouldnt have this problem.This spill is 100% lib enviro kooks fault!!100%.

  cuz'...that's EXACTLY what Palin was talkin about!  give me a break.

[Fury]

They're gonna complain either way.

If he was letting the drilling continue - and a SECOND drill blew up- he'd be skewered for allowing what we now KNOW to be an uncontollable force (oil from undergruond at PSI pressure our technicaly can't stop).

The ability to stop oil isn't there yet.  It might leak for 100 years dude.  it might kill the whole planet.  we don't know.  it was a major fck up to allow it to reach this point, and obama knows it now.  So, he's OWNING it.  he's stopping it.  I'm sure he'll start it once the companies can show they can STOP these things.

Because rigs are constantly exploding left and right. 

[240 is Back]

Because rigs are constantly exploding left and right. 

Um, until they get this one capped, and we see the long-term damage this one delivers, ONE is enough for me.

You have repubs (who support drilling!) calling this an inside job, as silly as that is.

[gcb]

What makes anyone think that the other companies are better than BP? They all benefited from safety deregulation (I'm pretty sure we didn't hear any of them complain), they can all suffer now.

[240 is Back]

yeah, seriously, where is the common sense...

these deeeeeep rigs are all ticking time bombs.  The fact they can't do a thing to stop the leak, for AT LEAST 4 months... it's unreal.

i can only understand the people saying "drill anyway" because they don't live close to it.  If you think any "Drill baby drill" candidate is gonna win in FL for the next decade, think again.  (Rubio has been pretttty quiet lately after being the biggest drilling proponent)

[Fury]

Who is talking about helping the companies? Most people are more concerned about the tens of thousands of Americans who are now effectively jobless as a result of this moratorium on drilling. Easy to say no when it's not your job that's gone from an incident that you had nothing to do with.

[240 is Back]

1) What is the total number of americans in drilling and direct support that lost their jobs?

2) BP is paying them

3) Many people (countless so far) have lost their job in the Gulf region since tourism is dying, and fishing will be dead soon.

[Danny]

What makes anyone think that the other companies are better than BP? They all benefited from safety deregulation (I'm pretty sure we didn't hear any of them complain), they can all suffer now.

 As far as I understand BP is THE only company that had a huge number of violations compared to everybody else in the industry so they are like the black sheep.

[240 is Back]

http://thestockmasters.com/node/2259

BP had 760 OSHA safety violations last year.

Exxon Mobil had ONE.

In the last five years, investigators found, BP has admitted to breaking U.S. environmental and safety laws and committing outright fraud. BP paid $373 million in fines to avoid prosecution.

BP's safety violations far outstrip its fellow oil companies. According to the Center for Public Integrity, in the last three years, BP refineries in Ohio and Texas have accounted for 97 percent of the "egregious, willful" violations handed out by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

[Soul Crusher]

1) What is the total number of americans in drilling and direct support that lost their jobs?

2) BP is paying them

3) Many people (countless so far) have lost their job in the Gulf region since tourism is dying, and fishing will be dead soon.

DO YOU READ ANYTHING OR JUST SPEW BS THAT YOU THINK SOUNDS GOOD YOU HEARD FROM DU OR MSNBC? 

1.  The figure is at around 80,000 to 100,000 and many jobs are risk related to those jobs. 

2.  BP IS NOT PAYING THEM!  Read my thread with Gorelick ordering Obama around like the bitch he is.  That was the deal they made in the WH that I told you was going to be a Cloward & Piven way to shut down the oil industry.  Go read the article.  This one is directly on Obama, the one you have been waiting for.    

3.  True.   

[MRDUMPLING]

I gotta say that 240 is right on this one.  One oil rig is enough for me...it is blatantly obvious that BP didn't care about the rig's safety, and they lied about it!  I think we need to find a solution to clean up any other potential underwater leaks before something else goes wrong.  Disasters like this are way too many even once every 40 years.  We will be feeling the repurcussions of this for years to come! 

[Soul Crusher]

I gotta say that 240 is right on this one.  One oil rig is enough for me...it is blatantly obvious that BP didn't care about the rig's safety, and they lied about it!  I think we need to find a solution to clean up any other potential underwater leaks before something else goes wrong.  Disasters like this are way too many even once every 40 years.  We will be feeling the repurcussions of this for years to come! 

Dumpling, its not as easy as that.  BP had a long track record of violations and skirting safety regulations, ALL WHILE OBAMA GAVE THEM WAIVERS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR THIS VERY RIG! 

No other companies have even remotely the record of BP on this. 

I think we need to figure out ways to prevent this, but from what I have seen, BP is the issuem, not drilling itself since they used cheap engineering, skirted safety regs, etc. 

There are literally thousands of these rigs all over the world with never a problem.  I say fix the leak, deal with the spill, figure out ways to deal with this problem and have every company submit updated plans, etc, and allow the drilling to continue so we dont force hundreds of thousands of more out of work.     

[BM OUT]

1) What is the total number of americans in drilling and direct support that lost their jobs?

2) BP is paying them

3) Many people (countless so far) have lost their job in the Gulf region since tourism is dying, and fishing will be dead soon.

1 in 5 resident of LA are employed by oil.Once again,if the fucking stupid ass libs would get the fuck out of the way and let the companies drill on dry land there would be no deep water drilling.This is liberal left wing enviro kooks fault.There is no reason to drill 65 miles out and 5 miles down,when we could drill on dry land.

By the way,many of BPs violations were grouped together over one issue.This has been blown way out of proportion,but again,if it was on dry land,no problems.

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