Offshore drilling ban could be a blow to Louisiana economy

[thundley4]

To coastal communities and marine-related industries across southern Louisiana, President Barack Obama's announcement Thursday that work at 33 deepwater drilling operations would be suspended immediately was like sealing the region's economic death from the ongoing oil plume gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

"It's bad enough that we have an oil spill to deal with and the fishermen can't work. Now they're going to take away the oil industry, and we'll have nothing, " said Chett Chiasson, executive director for the Greater Lafourche Port Commission, which runs Port Fourchon, the launching point for 90 percent of the deepwater activities in the Gulf of Mexico.

If the rigs stop prospecting for oil, then catering companies stop cooking food for rig workers, boats stop bringing them supplies, mechanics stop servicing the supply boats and so on.

Chiasson predicts the hardest-hit communities will lose jobs that won't easily be recovered.
"This industry should not have to suffer because of one company's horrible mistake, " Chiasson said. "This will cause people to lose their jobs. I have no doubt about it."

NOLA

So , the oil spill is damaging the fishing economy, and Barry decides that he needs to make Louisiana suffer even more economic hardships. Funny thing is, most of the coastal parishes didn't vote for Barry.

[Linda]

NOLA

So , the oil spill is damaging the fishing economy, and Barry decides that he needs to make Louisiana suffer even more economic hardships. Funny thing is, most of the coastal parishes didn't vote for Barry.

And that may dear thundley4 may be the reason he is willing to make them suffer more economic hardships .....
 
 

[GOP Congress]

The Obama administration handling of this oil crisis should be another top priority that a Conservative-controlled Congress must ascertain in senatorial inquiries next year.

SPECIFICALLY

Why was the company not allowed to employ booms to control the spread of oil?
Why did the Obama Administration curtail efforts by the state to temporarily circumvent EPA regulations in dispatching equipment to prevent the shores and bayous from receiving much of this oil?
How did the well REALLY get destroyed?

The bottom line: The Obama administration knows DAMN WELL that allowing the oil to hit shore was the goal of the entire process, so they could politicize this with all its might. This was NOT an "oversight"...this was INTENTIONAL. This is COMPLETELY IN LINE with the Obama administration's inferred goals to destroy the oil/gas/nuclear industry as we know it.

[Lacarnut]

Senator Landrieu (D) better get off her ass and change Obummer's mind. The billion dollars she requested that BP put in a special fund is a drop in the bucket for the damage this oil spill will do to the fishing industry here.

If Obama can give billions to bail out banks in Germany and France, give bailout to Greece and a shit pot to Haiti, he should be able to help out his own people in this country. This POS did not even go to TN with all the flooding.