65 feet is not too far at all, considering that wind and current pushes the booms and boats around. Sounds like the folks in charge are trying to get some elbow room.
I wonder if there have been incidents of “journalist” boats colliding with booms or recovery vessels while trying to get that critical 9000th shot of a bird or glob of oil?
Sorry, I don’t see this as a repressive regime clamping down on the honest “journalists” merely trying to do their job. I hear whiny self-important “journalists” complaining that they must use a 300 mm lens instead of a 200 mm lens to get that all-critical shot of blobby water.
If “journalists” were actually reporting on important issues there rather than being Obots I might cut them some slack.
‘If “journalists” were actually reporting on important issues there rather than being Obots I might cut them some slack.”
Ahh so the first amendment applies to some people?