White House Declares Halt on New Offshore Drilling

Aol News ^ | 30/4/10 | Doug Simpson, Lauren Frayer

[Eleutheria5]

The White House said today it is halting all new offshore drilling in U.S. waters until there's an "adequate review" of a massive 600-mile wide oil slick that has begun to lap up on Louisiana's coast.

The federal government is defending its response to the spill, which began with an April 20 blast on one of British Petroleum's offshore rigs that burned for two days before sinking. Rescuers saved 115 workers but 11 are presumed dead. BP is responsible for the cleanup, and it wasn't until Thursday -- nine days after the explosion -- that the White House declared it "a leak of national significance."

White House senior adviser David Axelrod told ABC's "Good Morning America" today that President Barack Obama has decided that there will be no new domestic offshore drilling until an investigation of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill incident is complete.

"All he has said is that he is not going to continue the moratorium on drilling but ... no additional drilling has been authorized and none will until we find out what happened here and whether there was something unique and preventable here," Axelrod said, defending the administration's policy.

[TornadoAlley3]

I say we ground all airplanes after a crash.

[MrB]

An accident, and 0bama has sent SWAT teams to the other rigs?

(Unless this has been “unconfirmed”)

[MrB]

So does 0bummer.

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This oilspill will forever be the ‘Three Mile Island’ for oil drilling. Gas jumped 11 cents overnight in my neck of the woods, but then again, it is Friday.

[SMM48]

How convenient!

[EternalVigilance]

Wrong answer. Cute, sorta, but dangerous to even joke about.

[apillar]

I was surprised. Rush Limbaugh is not one to espouse tin foil hat theory's, but he just about came out and said on yesterdays show that this explosion was sabotage. He pointed to the fact that it happened the day before earth day and on the exact day of the 40th anniversary of the Cleveland river fire that started the modern environmental movement. I wonder if he might have some insider information from some oil industry executives that they have evidence that this was caused by Environmental Terrorism and are just waiting for Obama and the democrats to come out and blame the industry, before they drop the bomb.

[thackney]

Sadly, oil rig fires and explosions happen more often than you realize. This event doesn’t even make the top 20 for deaths.

http://home.versatel.nl/the_sims/rig/index.htm

This only list the fires that got significantly out of control.

[SmokingJoe]

The White House said today it is halting all new offshore drilling in U.S. waters until there's an “adequate review” of a massive 600-mile wide oil slick that has begun to lap up on Louisiana's coast

David Axelrod : “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
The sooner we kick these America-hating vermin out of the White House, the better it will be for this country.

[Redleg Duke]

What a surprise.

Reichstag Fire Part One.

I wonder what will be the next one?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Surprise...Surprise!

[rock_lobsta]

How convenient...

Once again FReepers are ahead of the curve.

When zero gave the green light to offshore drilling, we knew something would happen to ‘unfortunately’ change his mind....

And the evidence is beneath a mile of water.

[houeto]

When did the President of the United States obtain dictatorial control over commerce?

That was my first thought as well.

[Nachum]

The List

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[R0CK3T]

Never let a good crisis go to waste...

With this kind of thinking all a person must do to win their point is wait for some tragic thing to happen.

[chooseascreennamepat]

“It could have been an accident,but something about this just stinks....”

Axelrod says, “at least there ain’t no witnesses!”

[ilovesarah2012]

Will this include foreign countries who are planning on drilling off our shores?

[Road Warrior ‘04]

First, prayers for those who lost their lives and their families.

Second, was the oil rig blown up on purpose? Was it stop all drilling in the Gulf and off shore? I'm suspicious of the circumstances!

[ilovesarah2012]

Uh, I think January 2009.

[SgtHooper]

Like the Obamarats ever would have allowed it anyway...