re: #97 reine.de.tout

btw ,, congrats to Landrieu for being correct

“Second, the uninformed and heavy hand of the federal government reacted to this tragedy by halting all drilling activities in the Gulf for more than 30 days and canceled the scheduled Western Gulf leases that would be open for bid in August. While some very limited shallow water drilling has been allowed to move forward, all deepwater drilling has been brought to a complete standstill for an indefinite period of time. In fact, we checked this morning and not one new shallow water permit, I believe, has been issued since this action was taken even though it is not official under a moratorium.

“This decision to halt all new energy exploration in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have been made in an uninformed manner, and in my view, borders on reckless.