[bvw]

“This permit was issued for one simple reason: the operator successfully demonstrated that it can drill its deepwater well safely and that it is capable of containing a subsea blowout if it were to occur. We expect further deepwater permits to be approved in coming weeks and months based on the same process that led to the approval of this permit,” he added.

What damnable hubris! No mention of the Judge's contempt order against the department, no mention of the congressional hearings. And yet will this man lose his job, his pension, his future, his business, his house, his wife and the respect of his children?

Tens of thousands have because of this spokesman and all his co-workers in that tyrannical bureaucracy.

[jazusamo]

It stood out there was no mention of the contempt by Salazar of judge Feldman’s order. Salazar should have been jailed after he issued the second drilling moratorium.