Project Gulf Impact wants to use its diary in the Daily Kos Blogathon for the next three days to allow residents of the Gulf to be heard. Project Gulf Impact is down in the Gulf right now conducting interviews and launching preliminary relief efforts to give the citizens of the Gulf a voice, a chance that is long overdue for Gulf residents.
Per the WSJ, if the Obama Administation had not vigorously appealed a federal appeals court in D.C. decision to quash the permits for deep water drilling, including specifically that of the DeepWater, this disaster would NOT have happened. In hindsight, the Court nailed it by ruling that
the government was unprepared for a major spill at sea, relying on an "irrational" environmental analysis of the risks of offshore drilling.
But instead of accepting this decision, the administration appealed to the Court to reverse it based largely on loss of royalty revenues! I'm sorry, but if this is not Bushian at it's core, what is?
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