What Will Be Legacy of Deepwater Horizon Tragedy?

Does anyone really care what ms. Krop says anymore?I thought it was pretty much established that she was played by PXP and took all of the local enviros for a ride.
Despite deepwater horizon she was still disappointed when the governor decided new drilling off the sb coast was a bad idea.

This lady wanted to drill less than 3 miles off our coast even after the gulf spill. Seriously.

I agree with greensoftshell. No matter how hard she tries she has no credibility left. You can't push for new off shore oil drilling when you know full well that there is no benefit to it (you can't continue to say the end dates are enforceable when they are not) and then even push for it after the BP disaster in the Gulf and claim you care about the impacts of off shore oil drilling. She knows full well that the risk of an oil spill from drilling into a new field is substantially greater than the risks from the current rigs that are drilling into depleated fields and she knows that some of the rigs are about to be decommissioned anyway. She is fighting rigs-to-reefs so she knows that is coming shortly and these current rigs are not going to be there indefinitely. The hiposcrisy is glaring. Wonder what the benefit to her from PXP was to make her turn so pro-oil for that project?

Offshore drilling in a high earthquake zone?

While the 800 lb Gorilla in regional legal issues may be EDC, the invisible Elephant in all discussions of energy policy and climate change is human population size. With nearly two births per each death in the US, add to this immigration and our US population of 310 million will increase to 489 million by 2050. The undeniable forces of more mouths to feed, more waste to bury, more pollution of oceans and drinking water, much more fresh water and other resources extracted—all this means that any progress we make with energy and climate change policies become moving targets unattainable because we have set no limits to our future needs.
The psychology of this situation has profound effects on our current predicament. To engage now in meaningful action towards conservation and new policies one needs hope that those changes will yield meaningful consequences. Knowing these problems may never be resolved for failure to control the ultimate consumption mechanism is a source of apathy behind our failure to make meaningful progress. The greatest gift we can make to the next generation, and our own, is to weave human population control into our other efforts. This must be seen not as a matter of finger-pointing at groups of people disproportionately contributing to overpopulation; rather it is a matter of our collective survival.

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Nixon... great president?? or greatest president??? this article is pointless.

The legacy of Deepwater Horizon?

Stock will soar to the planet Neptune on Beverly Hillbillies reruns.

You go, Jed!

The actual legacy of the Deepwater Horizon? The oil companies have joined Wall Street Firms as companies who spend a LOT of money to make us think they're working for you, and are actually rapacious pirate lying scumbags.

I'll NEVER accept corporate "research" at face value ever again.

I'm pretty sure the public would NEVER have allowed this travesty had we known THEY HAVE NO TECHNOLOGY TO FIX THIS. They lied to us.

Drill again ANYWHERE in the Channel or the Arctic ?
Not really going to happen.

But you out there had better be prepared for the Oil Company war upon us to follow. That means $ 8 dollars a gallon at the pump.

Are you prepared?

Linda Krop and the EDC still have huge credibility with the majority of environmentalists in SB. There may have been legitimate differences of opinion regarding the PXP/Tranquillon ridge issue but only someone looking to create discord within our ranks would imply that EDC, GOO, CEC and so many others supported that plan out of evil or pro oil motives. What are your environmental credentials Greensoftshell and Goofy. How many hundreds of hours have you put in working at 50% or less than the going rate for your profession. I will give you two the benefit of the doubt and assume that you are merely ignorant of the facts, which admittedly were complex and controversial, but to suggest greed or payola as the motive behind Linda Krop's actions or any of the heroic folks working on our behalf for peanuts at EDC is a cheap shot and simply not true.

You are right- you know nothing about me but let me assure you I have put in more hours than Linda and for free! As for being ignorant- that's insulting and just the comments that Linda has always made. Those who don't agree with her just "don't understand". Well I understand. I have read the SLC staff report, the EIR, both agreements, the MMS five year leasing plan and I have years of experience in this arena. Have your read these? What is your knowledge of State and federal law? No one who is not associated with EDC and their groopies or the oil industry is in disagreement about the enforcement of the claims. As for what Krop got out of this, just read the agreement, it says it in black and white

Goofy:

You put your own credibility on the line when in your first post you raise the accusing question: “Wonder what the benefit to her from PXP was to make her turn so pro-oil for that project?”

Then in your second post you claim: “As for what Krop got out of this, just read the agreement, it says it in black and white.”

So why don’t you make it easy for everyone and quote the language where Linda gets a single penny? (And don’t try to obfuscate the EDC -- which is a separate nonprofit entity run by a Board of Directors through an Executive Director and of which Linda is an employee with no financial control – with Linda herself.

Otherwise, Noletaman is right. You’re slinging mud only to serve your own agenda.

A direct failure of the Obama administration. Obama refused the assistance of proven skmmers from around the world because of not waiving the Jones Act. A direct pander to unions at the expense of the Gulf Coast. He refused boom that was already manufactured because...wait.. it didn't come from a union shop. Obama turned back oil skimmers because they didn''t have life vests ( a problem solver would have brought them to the ships).

In addition, there are over 20,000 skimmers in the USA. at day sixty-five only 20 had been deployed. Why you ask? Because and I quote Obama "They maybe needed elsewhere." That is what the smartest president in the history of the universe thinks.

Now, many skimmers are not allowed to take oil out and protect the gulf because they do not return the water 99.985% pure. That makes a lot of sense. Another rule that when faced with reality the president says I'll take a unicorn approach.

At best Obama's response to the clean up has been beyond incompetent. at worst, he is despoiling the gulf, putting people out of work and business to advance a political agenda.

As a parting question to our eco-fascists, how do your lessen our dependence on foreign oil by removing domestic production?

What's an eco-fascist?

Once again jukin, your post is a whopper.

"Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Charles Djou, both Republicans, have said that the 1920 Jones Act is standing in the way of foreign ships that could otherwise assist in the cleanup – and that Obama could waive its requirements but hasn’t.

But that’s false. No waiver has been needed. The Jones Act requires goods carried between U.S. ports to be shipped aboard U.S.-flagged vessels built in the U.S. and owned by American citizens. The law doesn’t apply to ships operating far from the U.S. coastline, skimming oil or performing other such chores and not hauling cargo from one American port to another.

In the case of the BP oil spill, the Jones Act hasn’t prevented several foreign-flagged ships from delivering resources and skimming oil. And the administration says it’s prepared to expedite requests for waivers, should any be needed."

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/07/oil-...