How so? If he's chartered a vessel to troll around in international waters away for the immediate area of the well head? Freedom of Navigation, right?
You're just out there like anybody else. The fact that your 'centrifuge' is running is nobody's business. And if they did stop him the ensuing public relations disaster would cut against the US Gov't -- not Kevin Costner.
Maybe you are suggesting that Obama's goons would try some backdoor way of punishing Kevin Costner? THAT I could believe.
Sorta like the fact that your wellbore is leaking?
I see.
Hello? HELLO?????
Look...take logic and common sense and throw them out the window when trying to understand the response to date. Common sense and logic have nothing to do with the response to date, which makes this truly outrageous.
First, the Coast Guard is keeping all traffic out of the area, except for "approved" traffic.
The EPA had not "approved" the machines or the foreign skimmers for use. Why? Well, aside from the Jones Act...the machines would scoop up muck presumably 75% oil, separate it...and discharge the separated water.
The separated water would be at about 99% pure, but the EPA doesn't allow discharge of polluted water, even though the water was much more pure than what had been scooped up.
No, you've got government by lawyers, which means at any time their three top priorities are:
--Making sure everyone knows BP is to blame, and will be threatened and punished.(because, after all, that's what lawyers do)
--Making sure they do nothing which would allow someone to blame them at a later date, when the hindsight and shooting of survivors will inevitably start.
--Making sure everyone knows who is actually in charge, and has proper respect for "authoriteh!"
So, the operation is not about actual cleanup, but of making sure blame is properly assigned.
In this circumstance, Costner is showing good sense.
Cynic I am, I believe this feeds one of the Left's issues, global warming and drilling for oil. If I believe they are guided by Rahm's Law(never let a crisis go to waste) then obviously, the bigger the crisis, the bigger the opportunity.
So, what's the greater upside/downside? Ending the crisis sooner or later?
I believe this prez is the first political suicide bomber.