A judge rules against President Barack Obama's six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling.
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This is crazy. We are really drilling again when obviously the safety and predictability of these wells is far out of our reach?
I'm not opposed to drilling; I understand it is nessisary to support our lifestyles. But could we--as a society--at least find a solution to the catastrophie occuring RIGHT NOW before we do any more damage?
That's right, Barrack.
You are not infallable.
Listen to the judge. He knows the U.S. laws better than you ever will.
This judge knows the law better than someone who was President of the Harvard Law Review? Someone who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004? Are you sure about that?
I suspect your comment reflects your prejudices and not your intimate knowledge of the law.
Everyone is infallible - including the judge. How else can one explain this asinine decision?
How is delaying *new* drilling until we are assured of the safety any different from stopping production at a meat packing plant suspected of shipping contaminated beef? Or continuing to build cars with a known safety flaw?
It is a matter of public safety.
"President of the Harvard Law Review", PROVE that he wasn't just Harvards token! Show me one reason he was put in that position, one paper he wrote, one article he published. ANYTHING that will say "Oh, he deserved that post." YOU CAN'T, Know why? They don't exist. So stuff it.
It all goes to the old saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't teach at Chicago Law School and Grille"
i am sorry but why dont people go green already--the only reason we arent is because its so expensive--so why not make it cheap-dumb ass politicans..the only reason oil companies are still rich--is because we depend on them---LETS stop already--strike--protest--and also back in medevial times whenever a big powerful abused their power-we got them and axed their heads off--maybe BP CEOS need their off too, because they destoried America and everything in it--right???
"District Judge Martin Feldman said [...] that the moratorium seems to assume that because one rig failed, all companies and rigs doing deepwater drilling pose an imminent danger"
Has he seen the same reports I have? That seems an eminently reasonable conclusion under the circumstances.
Yay, Big Oil. You showed us who's boss. Not an elected President, that's for sure. Phooey on voting when we can live in a wonderful Corpocracy. You can join Big Insurance, Big Banking, and Big Pharma in running the country. (Oops, you already do)
One oil exec said. "It's the right thing for not only the industry but the country,"
Where have I heard that before? Oh yea, "What's good for General Motors is good for the USA" I bet few recall that GM was found guilty of buying up and destroying most of the nation's wonderful streetcar systems, so they could be replaced by their pollution machines.
it sounding more and more everyday like sorry to say this but the politicans only care about rich white men and women that drive suvs, big jets planes-yachts-and are big time CEOS--why are they not worried about anyone else
we are the people that give these people power--with us--everyone of them will fall--LETS DO IT
http://slabbed.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/katrinas-who-dat-judge-martin-feldman-now-dabbling-in-oil/
Judge Feldman's investments in Oil & Drilling, including within the Gulf of Mexico:
Transocean
KBR Inc (Haliburton)
Chesapeake Energy
Provident Energy
Hercules Offshore Drilling
Parker Drilling
TXCO Reserves
El Paso
EV Energy Partners
ATP Oil & Gas
Isn't the above considered "conflict" & shouldn't he have been recused? Just more of the BigOil-GOP-Judiciary connection.
i dont get it
nice portfolio- No wonder he reversed the gov decision. SINCE WHEN does a district judge overturn the federal government? Should be relieved of his judgeship and forfeit all rights to health insurance-retirement - except for a mental health hospital.
Please provide documentation/proof for your claims about Judge Feldman's investments/portfolio.
According to CSNBC News... Quote -
"District Judge Martin Feldman said the Interior Department failed to provide adequate reasoning and that the moratorium seems to assume that because one rig failed, all companies and rigs doing deepwater drilling pose an imminent danger."
Isn't this saying the same thing as "I don't care about marine creatures, wildlife, and people. All I care about is money, and the Interior Department failed to provide adequate reasoing and morantorium that because ONE MONEY MAKER failed, all companies with BIG MONEY MAKERS doing deepwater drillig pose an imminent danger to marine life, wildlife, and people."
In my words, why do we need such people in a "judge" possition if they care more about money than people? I had rather grab a horse and buggy... Go back to living like the early 1800's than to keep drilling. An oil rig is BOUND to become a disaster in hurricanes, undersea quakes, etc. Not to mention the salt water eating away at components constantly. It's simply not safe period. It's a good way to destroy the world.
We have other alternatives than crude. Many alternatives. Convert. Forget crude! Forget money hungry pigs! Go GREEN and save our children's inheritance... the earth, the beaches, the fishing, clean air, everything. I say we BAN oil use period.
Read more: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37841204/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/#ixzz0rc3XC5WN