Offshore Drilling and Dishonesty
While this story is from July 19th, I just came upon it and had to share. CBS News brings us a great piece called "Not one drop of oil spilled? Not quite," about how offshore drilling advocates are spreading false claims that no oil leaks or spills occurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita in 2005.
The reality from the U.S. Minerals Management Service:
"As a result of both storms, a total volume of 17,652 barrels (or roughly three-quarters of a million gallons) of total petroleum products, of which 13,137 barrels were crude oil and condensate, was spilled from platforms, rigs and pipelines. 4,514 barrels were refined products from platforms and rigs."
The truth is that offshore drilling is risky for a number of reasons - including hurricanes.
Agreed, and yet here is Carl Pope befriending T. Boone Pickens, a man who yesterday on CNN said we should drill fopr oil everywhere. Carl is giving him a pass.
Posted by: oeoeo | July 23, 2008 at 03:21 PM
Actually, Carl is not giving him a pass. This NY Times column lays it out well: http://tinyurl.com/558g8x
Posted by: Heather Moyer | July 24, 2008 at 06:32 AM
lets lift this ban on offshore drilling. Lets start drilling today.
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Posted by: oilfield equipment | March 17, 2009 at 05:47 PM
I am begging the government to lift this ban. we can save some money if we do this.
Posted by: drilling rigs | April 02, 2009 at 03:08 PM