Obama gets overturned and spanked by a Judge!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-2 ... judge.html

Deepwater Drilling Ban Lifted by New Orleans Federal Judge

And it is a good thing too! Apparently most of the rigs were already loking to move and had offers from Austrailia, Brazil, and West Africa. In 50 years of drilling and 20 years of deep sea drilling, this is the first major accident and he wants to shut down an industry? They had it on the news today that it could have cost as many as 150,000 jobs to move to other countries. Thank God for this judge!

And now they are suing the government for the loss of $500,000 a day for illegally shutting them down.

Filed Separate Suit

“Even after the catastrophic events of Sept. 11, the government only shut down the airlines for three days,” Louisiana said in court papers seeking to lift the ban. Diamond Offshore Co., owner of the world’s second-largest floating drilling rig fleet, has filed a separate lawsuit against the regulatory agencies over the ban in Houston federal court. That suit, which accused the government of illegally “taking” its drilling contracts, worth up to $500,000 a day, has a scheduling conference in Houston this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas.

The case is Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC v. Salazar, 2:10-cv-01663, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans).

I wonder what Barack will do. Take the defeat gracefully or bring the suit to a higher court.

SS109 wrote: I wonder what Barack will do. Take the defeat gracefully or bring the suit to a higher court.

They are already appealing to a higher court to try and shut down thes jobs and force them to other countries. Can't quite figure out his logic.

Did you read the story? A temporary injunction does not permanently "overturn" the moratorium on drilling nor does it indicate that the federal government didn't have the authority to impose said moratorium. In fact, the judge stated"“The court cannot substitute its judgment for that of the agency, but the agency must ‘cogently explain why it has exercised its discretion in a given manner,’” Feldman said, citing a previous ruling.

Don't be surprised when the appeals court lifts this local boy's temporary injunction.

It is still good that someone finally said 'no' to Obama and is trying to stop his very poor decisions before they hurt more people and put tens if not hundreds of thousands more Apericans out of work.

The problem for Obama is that his conclusions are not supported by science.

I guess it will take another spill before we get serious about determining if the companies doing the drilling in the Gulf are following the very best safety protocols and have a long term plan for cleanup and containment when the worst case scenario happens.. Or maybe 3 spills, who knows? You tell me, wasn't one disaster enough? If the government doesn't make the oil companies get with a better program for safety and cleanup, who will? We can see how well it worked letting BP set their own standards.

I don't think the administration wants to shut down wells any longer than is necessary to make sure ALL the wells out in the Gulf are safe, secure, and using the latest technology and safty measures.

Yes one major spill in 50 years so lets shut down billions of dollars, unemploy tens of thousands, and send our rigs and up to 150,000 jobs to other shores. That makes a lot of sense. This judge is using common sense. Obama is having a knee jerk reation for the environmentalists.

The Viking wrote: Yes one major spill in 50 years so lets shut down billions of dollars, unemploy tens of thousands, and send our rigs and up to 150,000 jobs to other shores. That makes a lot of sense. This judge is using common sense. Obama is having a knee jerk reation for the environmentalists.

Not exactly correct Viking. admittedly these are not all from wells, but it's the same issue....how much safety are we requiring? and is it enough?

1979
· June 3, Gulf of Mexico: Exploratory well Ixtoc 1 blows out, spilling some 140 million gallons of crude into the open sea.

1990
· June 8, off Galveston: Mega Borg releases 5.1 million gallons of oil some 60 nautical miles south-southeast of Galveston after a pump room explosion and fire.

2000
· Nov. 28, Mississippi River south of New Orleans: Tanker Westchester loses power and runs aground, dumping 567,000 gallons of crude oil. The spill was largest in U.S. waters since Exxon Valdez in 1989.

2005
· August-September, New Orleans: The Coast Guard estimates that more than 7 million gallons of oil spilled from various sources during Hurricane Katrina.

2006
· June 19, Calcasieu River, La.: Some 71,000 barrels of waste oil are released from the CITGO refinery during a violent storm.

2008
· July 25, New Orleans: A 61-foot barge, carrying 419,000 gallons of heavy fuel, collides with a 600-foot tanker in the Mississippi River. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel leak from the barge, halting all river traffic.

2009
· September, Houston Ship Channel: An oil spill prompted a three-day closure to accommodate cleanup efforts. A 458-foot vessel was trying to turn around when it struck a barge, gouging a hole in the vessel's fuel tank and leaking 10,500 gallons of oil.
· October, 40 miles offshore of Galveston, Texas: a supply vessel crashed against a Liberian-flagged oil tanker, resulting in an 18,000 gallon oil spill.

2010
· January 23, Port Arthur, Texas: About 462,000 gallons of oil spilled when an 800-foot tanker headed for an Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery in Beaumont collided with a vessel pushing two barges.

http://oilonthebeach.blogspot.com/2010/ ... story.html

Again, you tell me, how many is too many before we hold the oil companies accountable BEFORE a spill happens instead of after?