[Louisiana Governor] Jindal says Obama still doesn't get [oil-drilling] moratorium's economic impact

Nola.com ^ | June 10, 2010 | David Hammer

[Ebenezer]

With three shuttered oil rigs preparing to leave the Gulf of Mexico for foreign waters, Gov. Bobby Jindal ratcheted up the rhetoric Thursday against the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling, saying the White House still doesn't understand the economic pain the forced stoppage is causing Louisiana workers.

Jindal said he had a conference call with President Barack Obama's senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, and appealed to her to shorten the six-month moratorium, arguing that a half-year pause would force oil companies to move drilling operations overseas for years and that the federal government could easily impose new safety standards and monitoring in a shorter time frame.

"She asked again why the rigs simply wouldn't come back after six months," Jindal said. "What worries me is I fear they think these rigs can just flip a switch on and off."

Jindal, who addressed hundreds of angry shipyard workers at a slip in Port Fourchon, said Obama needs to listen to the majority of a panel of experts, who advised the Interior Department on drilling safety and recently said they were not in favor of a six-month "blanket moratorium."

[CharlesWayneCT]

I’d like to know what law allows Obama to shut down oil drilling?

[penelopesire]

There is something very strange going on with this whole oil spill fiasco. I was watching an Oil Spill hearing on Cspan in the middle of the night and nobody can figure out who is in charge or why nothing is happening on the ground that will actually help mitigate the disaster.

Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser gave testimony of the wierd ‘clean up’ crews stomping on all of the pelican nests and throwing the eggs from the nests at each other. They were also seen futilely wiping individual blades of grass. CNN reported last night on Anderson Cooper’s show that the National Guard is ‘guarding’ the bird clean-up stations and keeping the news crews from photographing any birds. Other reports of the National Guard troops being sent ‘door to door’ to ‘assist’ people in filing claims against BP(instead of working to mitigate the spill). No one can figure out where these strange ‘clean up’ crews are coming from. Other reports of skimmers sitting docked and idle. It truly is unsettling when you piece all of these reports together.

Something very malevolent is stemming from this White House and administration. It looks like a wilful dereliction of duty and not just mere incompetence.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/oil_spilling_onto_louisianas_c.html

[az_gila]

“She asked again why the rigs simply wouldn't come back after six months,”

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Once again, top Zero administration advisers exhibit their vast knowledge of economics and how supply and demand works.../S

[Diogenesis]

"You had your chance to invest in NALCO and ConEd
but you blew it. But for you people, we also run a vacation flotilla
in the Mediterranean … with a seat just for you."

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“….. thirteen entities had offered the U.S. oil spill
assistance within about two weeks of the Horizon rig explosion. They were the
governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands,
Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the
United Nations.
The U.S. response - Thank you, but no thank you, we've got it.
‘..While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is
assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need
in the near future.’”

Actually - it was at least 17 countries ignored by Pres_ _ent Obama.

[HangThemHigh]

"0bama gets it alright, he just doesn’t care."

Or rather, the chance to grab power means more to him than the Gulf and the national economy.

[kabumpo]

I agree. We have to stop thinking of him as incomptetent.

[elpadre]

if Obama is purposely driving the nation into insolvency so as to impose a state of emergency, as many believe, then why would he care about the economic impact along the coast??

[WarEagle]

If something like this oil spill hadn't happened, 0zero would have invented it.

IMHO, they are purposely doing nothing, making things worse, thinking they can produce a "Three Mile Island" effect, and make people hate oil so much they will gladly support cap and trade. Got news for you, dude. In 1979 we didn't need nuclear power generating plants, but in 2010 we do need oil.

This is all about, billions in "Crime Inc" coffers, not about preserving the environment or creating jobs or producing energy. This man and his Marxist cronies are evil, through and through.

[TruthConquers]

The Zero gets it.

He just is busy destroying America!!!

Jobs, who needs those stinking oil jobs, anyway?

[SunkenCiv]

Jindal said he had a conference call with President Barack Obama's senior adviser, "Valerie Jarrett

Thanks rrstar96.

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[Whenifhow]

Governor: National Guard staging for “effort to evacuate” communities impacted by oil spill

http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/governor-national-guard-staging-for-effort-to-evacuate-communities-impacted-by-oil-spill

Excerpt:

Currently, our Soldiers and Airmen are staging for and are engaged in the planning of the effort to evacuate and provide security and clean up for the coastal communities expected to be impacted by the oil spill. They are engaged in the protection of vital infrastructure to include medical facilities, fuel distribution, interstate highways, water-ice distribution and power facilities which are all vital to the recovery of coastal Louisiana.