Apr 30, 2010 7:31am
Axelrod on Gulf Oil Spill: ‘No Domestic Drilling in New Areas’ Until Situation is Reviewed
EmailIn a ‘GMA’ exclusive this morning White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod told me that in the wake of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, no expansion of off-shore oil drilling will take place until any investigation into how this spill occurred is complete.
“…what the President has said all he has said is he’s not gonna continue the moratorium on drilling but he hasn’t – no additional drilling has been authorized and none will until we find out what happened here and whether there was something unique and preventable here. “
See the entire interview on the spill, immigration policy and Gov. Crist’s Republican defection here:
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George Stephanopoulos asked the Coast Guard spokeswoman several days ago about the oil ! Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry told George on National TV the oil was not leaking and they had looked with underwater robots ! You have it on news feed ! We need answers !
On April 27, 2003, Exactly seven years ago the Bouchard Barge B-120 hit an obstacle in Buzzards Bay, creating a 12-foot rupture in its hull and discharging an estimated 100,000 gallons of No. 6 oil. The oil is known to have affected an estimated 90 miles of shoreline, numerous bird species, and recreational use of the bay, such as shell fishing and boating.
The Coast Guards Rear Admiral Mary E. Landry was in charge of the Buzzards Bay Massachusetts oil spill and is in charge of the current gulf spill today. We need to know how the reports in the past week have gone from no oil to its leaking an unknown amount. In fact some reports say this could be worse than the Exxon Valdez spill. Can we believe the US Coast Guard? Who can we trust?
Posted by: Bill Carson | April 30, 2010, 8:24 am 8:24 am
halo..
It is, yes, the oil leak influence must be beyond what people can imagine of…
which wraps the oxygen of the sea…and all the lives under the sea are being sufrocated.
Beyond such environmental concerns, this incident may seem to devastate another area – environment policy in which President Obama may seem to get bipartisan agreement as to lift up moratorium of drilling to sustain natural resourced energy supply probably with co2 decomposition/degradation technology.
I wonder whether this incident is to be related to the policy of up-lifting moratorium of drilling is legitimate. Incident may occur due to many reasons… What if a huge accident occurs during a train line once a 3 -5yrs, then would you re-consider a project of development of new train line until the time when the government clear the cause?
I assume you would not.
Point stays in, at the end of the day, a question as to whether, in a broad sense, it is an incident caused by some fundamental innate problems rooted from oil-drilling industry or technology, or not. I presume that the oil-drilling industry was not necessarily always related to such a devastative oil leaking due to its fundamental and structural issues.
Why this incident is suddenly necessarily to be deemed as if a solid proof of the industry’s fundamental problem.
The reason of why now is interesting, isn’t it?
Posted by: Mari Tomita (7thclouds) | April 30, 2010, 8:29 am 8:29 am
This incident wouldn’t have happened if BP had installed the correct shut off system but they didn’t want to spend the $500K. Then they lied about how much oil was actually leaking out. But, that’s OK….. DRILL BABY DRILL!!
Posted by: Lee | April 30, 2010, 8:53 am 8:53 am
I would like to know why booms were not immediately put around the location the oil is surfacing. It could then be picked up by vacuum lines or burned. It makes no sense to let it spread for thousands of miles and then try to protect the coast line. Where was the Federal Government for the first two or so weeks of this disaster?
Posted by: ken | April 30, 2010, 9:37 am 9:37 am
Yeah, let someone else mess up their coast line. Right. We live on the same planet and we all need the stuff and it’s not just about driving cars, it’s everything we do. But the Dems are going to make it about politics, what’s new.
Posted by: jp | April 30, 2010, 10:50 am 10:50 am
“But the Dems are going to make it about politics, what’s new.”……….. too funny and yet pathetic!
Posted by: Boom | April 30, 2010, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm
Bill Carson | Apr 30, 2010 8:24:01 AM….The first report I heard indicated oil was leaking. However, the report said, because the leak was underwater, the amount of oil leaking was a guesstimate. Yesterday, the BP spokesperson agree with the new Coast Guard leak estimate.
Posted by: deanbob | April 30, 2010, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm
Boom | Apr 30, 2010 12:28:34 PM…..Axlerod himself said ‘they wouldn’t let a crisis go to waste’.
Posted by: deanbob | April 30, 2010, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm
Wow, a temporary hold on authorization.
Inspirational leadership. Really…
Posted by: Nate | April 30, 2010, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm
What caused the fire? They Know. You know. I know. Humans failed. Humans are charged with behavior they cannot handle and the rig sinks. The key to the present is the past. It has and will happen again. Humans are anything but reliable, just read the news.
Folks, we had better move back a little and ponder what we really need to be doing while there is something left on Earth to salvage, but I don’t expect any such thing to happen.
Take the rest of the day off, eat some shrimp and savior their taste. It may be awhile before they are again available.
Posted by: Dirk Dauber | April 30, 2010, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm
George….You were a wuss this morning and I was very disappointed. So when you were interviewing the CEO of BP and he stated that it was NOT BP’s equipment OR there men, you refused to ask the question he was begging, just who’s equipment and men was it………that was just so irresponsible of you! Why didn’t you ask and allow everyone to hear it was HALIBURTON!
Posted by: Ruth | May 3, 2010, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
Where was the Federal Government for the first two or so weeks of this disaster?
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