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NJmaverick

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:46 PM
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Obama: New oil leases will need safeguards

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday directed that no new offshore oil drilling leases be issued unless rigs have new safeguards to prevent a repeat of the explosion that unleashed the massive spill threatening the Gulf Coast with major environmental damage.
Obama ordered Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to report within 30 days on what new technologies are needed to tighten safeguards against oil spills from deep water drilling rigs.
"We are going to make sure that any leases going forward have those safeguards," said Obama at a White House Rose Garden event.
The president sought to reassure the jittery Gulf Coast that Washington is on top of the mounting oil spill crisis, saying people's livelihoods and a region's ecology are at stake.

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Oregone

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:47 PM
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1. I got an idea...why lease at all?

If drilling is to be done off the coastlines, why shouldn't it be done by a public entity that can directly be controlled and regulated by non-greedy execs?

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joeybee12

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:51 PM
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4. You're right...n/t

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ShortnFiery

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:53 PM
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6. Yes, let's switch over to CLEAN coal?

:crazy:

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Oregone

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:56 PM
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9. No, my point is, why let private industry profit perpetually off the country's resources at all?

(and enhance such profits by skirting regulation)

Whatever is the policy...green or black, why do we need private industry to do it? Why not have public owned utilities drill oil, burn "clean coal", or collect green wind?

Hell, you could seize half their assets to make up for a lack of tax payments. You can sell "energy bonds" to the American people to raise any additional funds needed to start such entities.

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Teaser

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Fri Apr-30-10 04:43 PM
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19. fine. what's the startup time for a completely public oil industry?

until that time elapses, we'll need to lease, if we want to recoup any monies at all.

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Captain Hilts

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Fri Apr-30-10 01:17 PM
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15. Wash Caps hockey playoff games were sodden with ads for 'Clean coal'. nt

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retread

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Sat May-01-10 07:55 AM
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21. Thanks for illustrating an example of a

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FSogol

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:48 PM
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2. K & R. n/t

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tekisui

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:50 PM
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3. In other words. Shit happens, oil leaks, we're going to do it anyway.

There is no such thing as a 100% secure oil rig. We need to quit putting them in the ocean.

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ShortnFiery

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:51 PM
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5. The newspeak never ends. This is insane - stop new oil rigs.

Are we not supposed to wean ourselves off of OIL?!?

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Oregone

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:54 PM
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7. "Are we not supposed to wean ourselves off of OIL?!?"

No.

The plan is to actually distract everyone with greeny gadgets that spin, shine, and send our hearts all a'flutter, while big industry is raping the earth for oil and coal.

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Hutzpa

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Fri Apr-30-10 04:07 PM
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17. You guys are something else

the two of you.

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Hell Hath No Fury

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:54 PM
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8. Screw "new oil leases" --

Shame on him for leading us down this path to MORE oil spills, MORE environmental degradation, and MORE wildlife destruction.

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Kdillard

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Fri Apr-30-10 12:59 PM
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10. Not at all what I wanted to hear and obviously there needs to be a greater

Public out cry. No new leases oil should be given period. I understand that he feel that it will play a part in energy independence but the fact is the rig had safeguards but they failed. Alternative energy resources yes but no more leases.

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NJmaverick

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Fri Apr-30-10 01:02 PM
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13. I am going to wait until all the facts are known about this disaster

before deciding on this issue

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Hutzpa

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Fri Apr-30-10 04:08 PM
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18. Thank you

you just wish some folks can think like that sometimes.

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freddie mertz

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Fri Apr-30-10 05:10 PM
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20. Nothing to decide.

Drilling offshore is not worth the risk.

We should be thinking of ways to kick the oil habit.

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retread

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Sat May-01-10 08:01 AM
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22. The "facts" are what the extraction industry apostles say they are. n/t

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Enrique

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Fri Apr-30-10 01:01 PM
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11. oh, so offshore drilling hasn't been safe

but in 30 days, Ken Salazar will know how to make it safe? Ok.

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ClarkUSA

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Fri Apr-30-10 01:02 PM
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12. The EU requires the $500K automatic shut-off valves that the U.S. hasn't up until this point. n/t

Edited on Fri Apr-30-10 01:02 PM by ClarkUSA

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Captain Hilts

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Fri Apr-30-10 01:16 PM
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14. No shit, Sherlock!

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freddie mertz

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Fri Apr-30-10 04:00 PM
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16. Oh goody.

We can rest easy now.

Problem solved.

Not.

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