The Shallow Water Non-Moratorium

RedState ^ | 8/2/2010 | Vladimir

[Sequoyah101]

Interior Secretary Salazar imposed a moratorium on deepwater drilling until November 30, contrary to the recommendation of a panel of experts from the National Academy of Engineering. For operations on the shallow water Shelf, the administration maintains, no official moratorium is in place. After all, the Shelf still enjoys a forty-year history of relatively safe and clean operations that is still intact, being several orders of magnitude safer than the Deepwater Horizon-style deepwater oil exploration.

There’s no moratorium here, folks. Business as usual, nothing to see. Move along, move along.

But Interior has plenty of tricks up its sleeve to create a de facto shallow water moratorium. The new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement or BOEMRE (pronounced “bummer”) is charged with issuing permits and setting operating standards for oil and gas companies in the Outer Continental Shelf. Oh, they’re still issuing permits, all right:

[Sequoyah101]

See the graph folks. Drilling in the Gulf is SHUT DOWN. Thousands of people are out of work, property is effectively being confiscated by obastard without any process. The useful idiots in BOEMRE are not about to issue any permits because the NTL with the new regulations is written in such a way that the bureaucrats issue the permits "at their own discretion". Meaning that if something goes wrong they go to jail. Hmmm, permit or I go to jail if some thing, anything goes wrong... Let me see... NO PERMIT. obastard has these people so scared for their phony baloney jobs they aren't going to do a thing. The government goes on because they just raise taxes, matters not that there is no industry to regulate to them.

obastard is not just destroying the country one brick at a time. He is taking down whole walls. Time for him to go people.

[Izzy Dunne]