Deepwater Drilling Moratorium Already Kicking LA’s A$$

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  June 8th at 04:05 PM  | 

It will be a long time before Louisiana and the Gulf South recover from the devastation. I’m not referring to the oil spill. No, it’s the willful and senseless act of a President, desperately searching for some way to control events. It might have made sense to slow down, to reconsider safety procedures, or to step up regulatory vigilence. Instead, Obama leaped off a cliff | Read More »

Obama’s Damage to Louisiana Will Easily Top BP’s

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  May 31st at 10:47 PM  | 

In one of the bigger ‘duh!’ headlines of the year, the Times-Picayune observes: Offshore drilling ban could be a blow to Louisiana economy The president and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement late last week to halt all deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico “at the first safe stopping point” while the Interior Department figures out what regulatory changes are necessary for offshore oil prospecting | Read More »