by RLMiller
Last Thursday, President Obama announced changes to the Administration's offshore oil drilling policy. As fleshed out by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and new Minerals Management Service head Bob Abbey, the details are far better than expected. Yesterday, a new shallow water well was given a permit amid cries of "sellout! hypocrite! meaningless moratorium!" The moratorium never was meant to apply to shallow water drilling (despite a flurry of confusion earlier this morning). Even so, the policy -- some of which is a temporary moratorium, and some of which appears permanent -- deserves a solid B grade.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
When will they get it ...
by jamess
When will people get it -- we live on a fragile planet with limited, fragile resources. [fair warning: Pictorial Diary, over the fold.]
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When will people get it -- we live on a fragile planet with limited, fragile resources. [fair warning: Pictorial Diary, over the fold.]
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Stupid Liberals Demand Criminal Not Clean Up Crime Scene!
by slinkerwink
Here's a story for you guys. One day, the police gets a tip that a crime has been committed, but that the criminal is still within vicinity. So, what does the police do? They go over to where the criminal resides, asks him to participate with the police, and to go back to the crime scene. All of this sounds normal at first, but then there's the twist to the story--the police puts the criminal in charge of the press operations, data-collection of evidence from the crime scene, and orders the criminal to clean up any sort of blood stains at the crime scene. Meanwhile, the press relies on the criminal for any sort of information about the crime scene, the criminal lies about the evidence, hires and abuses contractors, and refuses to abide by environmental laws. And the criminal ignores the order from the police to stop using a toxic solvent in cleaning up the crime scene. This is what our government is doing with BP. This is wrong, and liberals at the Center for American Progress have proposed a different path for our government to take with BP.
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Here's a story for you guys. One day, the police gets a tip that a crime has been committed, but that the criminal is still within vicinity. So, what does the police do? They go over to where the criminal resides, asks him to participate with the police, and to go back to the crime scene. All of this sounds normal at first, but then there's the twist to the story--the police puts the criminal in charge of the press operations, data-collection of evidence from the crime scene, and orders the criminal to clean up any sort of blood stains at the crime scene. Meanwhile, the press relies on the criminal for any sort of information about the crime scene, the criminal lies about the evidence, hires and abuses contractors, and refuses to abide by environmental laws. And the criminal ignores the order from the police to stop using a toxic solvent in cleaning up the crime scene. This is what our government is doing with BP. This is wrong, and liberals at the Center for American Progress have proposed a different path for our government to take with BP.
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Oil to reach the Atlantic ? updated w/ video
by worldforallpeopleorg
The NYDailynews has an interesting animation of BP gusher effects - as a two month event. I tried over and over but couldn't embed it here. There is a warning that it is only a scenario of what might happen, depending on loop currents. Just the same, I thought y'all might find it interesting. Over; UPDATE: Hat tip to 'Tacet', who found a better source and now the video is below.
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The NYDailynews has an interesting animation of BP gusher effects - as a two month event. I tried over and over but couldn't embed it here. There is a warning that it is only a scenario of what might happen, depending on loop currents. Just the same, I thought y'all might find it interesting. Over; UPDATE: Hat tip to 'Tacet', who found a better source and now the video is below.
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BRRRREAKING: New drilling blocked at ALL depths
by Mark Warner is God
The Obama administration is evil, and I'm working really hard to find out a reason how their latest action fits within their grand scheme to sell off all of of the children of America as slave labor for oil companies looking to test whether oil is edible, but it's still worth reading about their latest attempt to appease the people who declared Obama a failure after Rick Warren. The Obama administration is blocking all new offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a day after regulators approved a new permit for drilling in shallow water. The Minerals Management Service, which oversees offshore drilling, says in an e-mail from its Gulf Coast office that "until further notice" no new drilling is being allowed in the Gulf, "no matter the water depth." A copy of the e-mail was obtained by The Associated Press. The announcement comes a day after the MMS granted a new drilling permit for a site about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, 115 feet below the ocean surface. Environmental groups said the administration was misleading the public by allowing work to resume in waters up to 500 feet deep while maintaining a moratorium on deepwater drilling.
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The Obama administration is evil, and I'm working really hard to find out a reason how their latest action fits within their grand scheme to sell off all of of the children of America as slave labor for oil companies looking to test whether oil is edible, but it's still worth reading about their latest attempt to appease the people who declared Obama a failure after Rick Warren. The Obama administration is blocking all new offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a day after regulators approved a new permit for drilling in shallow water. The Minerals Management Service, which oversees offshore drilling, says in an e-mail from its Gulf Coast office that "until further notice" no new drilling is being allowed in the Gulf, "no matter the water depth." A copy of the e-mail was obtained by The Associated Press. The announcement comes a day after the MMS granted a new drilling permit for a site about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, 115 feet below the ocean surface. Environmental groups said the administration was misleading the public by allowing work to resume in waters up to 500 feet deep while maintaining a moratorium on deepwater drilling.
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Ohio Coal Plant Linked to $30m in Annual Economic Damage
by Bruce Nilles
This post was co-written by Nachy Kanfer, Associate Field Organizer for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign in Ohio. We regularly dispute Big Coal when they say coal is not bad for the environment - now we have another example of how this dirty, outdated power source is costing jobs and damaging the economy in one state. The Sierra Club just co-released a report showing that the Bay Shore coal-fired power plant in Oregon, Ohio, causes nearly $30 million in damages to the state's economy every year.
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This post was co-written by Nachy Kanfer, Associate Field Organizer for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign in Ohio. We regularly dispute Big Coal when they say coal is not bad for the environment - now we have another example of how this dirty, outdated power source is costing jobs and damaging the economy in one state. The Sierra Club just co-released a report showing that the Bay Shore coal-fired power plant in Oregon, Ohio, causes nearly $30 million in damages to the state's economy every year.
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Why the BP oil spill is nothing like a 'plane crash'
by ProgressiveSouth
With public support for offshore oil drilling slipping and Washington pushing for new regulations on the industry, what's a pro-drilling politician, pundit or lobbyist to do?Apparently, something like this: Minimize the Gulf oil disaster, compare it to a freak accident, and suggest that drilling for oil 5,000 feet beneath the ocean is just as essential to our daily lives as, say, flying in an airplane.
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With public support for offshore oil drilling slipping and Washington pushing for new regulations on the industry, what's a pro-drilling politician, pundit or lobbyist to do?Apparently, something like this: Minimize the Gulf oil disaster, compare it to a freak accident, and suggest that drilling for oil 5,000 feet beneath the ocean is just as essential to our daily lives as, say, flying in an airplane.
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Drill, Bobby, Drill!
by Crashing Vor
I've been thinking about Bobby Jindal. Not just because I had to detour by the shuttered Charity Hospital today, either. Bobby's been doing his best to make sure we're thinking about him every day. Wading in oily marshes, poised before national microphones or valiantly defending his mighty sand berms like Jean Valjean on the freaking barricades, our governor is about the lens time now, canceling his book tour and punching the disaster response clock. Heck, New Republic even proclaimed that Kenneth the Page is all growed up now.
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I've been thinking about Bobby Jindal. Not just because I had to detour by the shuttered Charity Hospital today, either. Bobby's been doing his best to make sure we're thinking about him every day. Wading in oily marshes, poised before national microphones or valiantly defending his mighty sand berms like Jean Valjean on the freaking barricades, our governor is about the lens time now, canceling his book tour and punching the disaster response clock. Heck, New Republic even proclaimed that Kenneth the Page is all growed up now.
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Reducing Waste in Our Schools' Cafeterias
by BadRabbit
I was recently a guest blogger on Mrs. Q's "Fed Up with School Kunch" blog and cross posted it here to share with the DKos community. Here's a link to the original blog post. http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot...
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I was recently a guest blogger on Mrs. Q's "Fed Up with School Kunch" blog and cross posted it here to share with the DKos community. Here's a link to the original blog post. http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot...
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The Zombie Lies of Climate Change Skeptics (Chicago Trib. ed.)
by Steven D
Want examples on how mercenary Climate Skeptics distort the truth and use the same old lies to further their agenda? Lies that have been disproved over and over again but keep popping out of their graves like zombies. Look no further than the Chicago Tribune on June 1st:
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Want examples on how mercenary Climate Skeptics distort the truth and use the same old lies to further their agenda? Lies that have been disproved over and over again but keep popping out of their graves like zombies. Look no further than the Chicago Tribune on June 1st:
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