Environmentalists Also To Blame For Exxon Valdez And Gulf Spills (Duh)

IBD Editorials ^ | June 1, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff

[Kaslin]

Energy Policy: To save the environment, a senator from Pennsylvania wants to shut off a major source of natural gas. Weren't the roads to the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon disasters paved with equally good intentions?

Environmentalism did not cause the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, but it did help make it possible, just as 1989's Exxon Valdez disaster, which the Gulf Oil spill has now eclipsed, was also ironically made possible by a desire to protect the environment.

The original plan when oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope was to build a pipeline directly to the northern border of the 48 contiguous states. Groups like the Sierra Club waged a major battle against both the Prudhoe Bay development and the pipeline.

They lost on the drilling but won a small victory in forcing the pipeline to not traverse the continent via a safer land route but to dead end at the port of Valdez, Alaska. The rest, as they say, is history.

Had the oil companies gotten their way, there would have been no tanker to be run aground by its captain on March 24, 1989, causing 10.8 million gallons of crude oil to be dumped into Alaskan waters.

[EGPWS]

B.S.

Environmentalists don't take blame, they lay blame.

[sauropod]

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[Kaslin]

Of course not, but that doesn't mean they are not to blame. As a matter of fact I do blame them

[muawiyah]

The professional environmentalists are definitely to blame in this one.

We should begin preparing gibbets on the National Mall.

[raptor22]

Ping

[raptor22]

Ping

[Vendome]

Duh...

[Vendome]

LOL, (Duh was part of the headline)

[cranked]

Won’t read this or have it reported by the lamestream MSM....bet.

[Kaslin]

I don’t doubt it one bit

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

I took some time last night to see what the communist MSM were
spinning. They are blaming BP. You damn well know if Bush were in there they would be blaming him if he sat on his arse for 40 days.

I also just saw the Paul Mcartney headline on Drudge defending Obama. Any human being that thinks Obama is doing “a great job” must be so far left they are a downright communist.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Given any great man made disaster, the fingerprints of the federal government are usually to be found in great abundance.

[Albion Wilde]

Environmentalists also cause horrific forest fires when they won't allow logging companies or citizen groups to remove naturally fallen trees for use as fuel or timber. Instead, those fallen trees contribute to massive conflagrations during every dry season.

If environmentalists want to carry this line of thought to its logical next steps, they will prevent birds from carrying twigs to build their nests, bees from removing pollen from flowers and ants from carrying grasses back to their hills.