Environmental Law

RIGZONE - Salazar: Won't Bow to Political Pressure to Restart Gulf Deepwater Drilling

By STEPHEN HOLZER

nterior Secretary Ken Salazar said that U.S. regulators would not bow to political pressure to restart deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico before they are certain the oil-and-gas industry is capable of containing an oil spill like the one that followed last BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Salazar and Michael Bromwich--the head of the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, which oversees offshore drilling--were in Houston Friday to meet with oil industry executives to assess the spill-containment systems they have developed in the wake of nation's worst-ever marine oil spill.

via rigzone.com

    The longer you wait, gentlemen, the mroe painful it's gfoing to be when mid-east oil becomes the possession of hostile regimes. 

    Also, why is there not much discussion about the fact that a federal judge ruled the moratorium illegal and yet the moratorium persists?

Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on February 26, 2011 (boomark / email).