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Gulf residents to Obama: Please don't ban oil drilling.
most residents of the affected counties weren't turning their backs on offshore drilling. By 60-38 percent, they opposed the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on drilling.
The six-month moratorium was particularly unpopular in Louisiana, where 72 percent opposed it.
Obama to Gulf residents: Screw you!
Frustrated twice by the federal courts—which had overturned his original temporary moratorium on deepwater drilling—President Obama Monday evening decided to do what most of us have probably wanted to do when denied by someone in a position of authority: he went ahead anyway. /.../ Interior Secretary Ken Salazar directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) /.../ to issue new suspensions of deepwater drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, while investigators continue to look at the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
most residents of the affected counties weren't turning their backs on offshore drilling. By 60-38 percent, they opposed the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on drilling.
The six-month moratorium was particularly unpopular in Louisiana, where 72 percent opposed it.
Obama to Gulf residents: Screw you!
Frustrated twice by the federal courts—which had overturned his original temporary moratorium on deepwater drilling—President Obama Monday evening decided to do what most of us have probably wanted to do when denied by someone in a position of authority: he went ahead anyway. /.../ Interior Secretary Ken Salazar directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) /.../ to issue new suspensions of deepwater drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, while investigators continue to look at the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
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