National Center for Public Policy Research: Obama Administration Overreaction to Deepwater Horizon Accident Like “Industrial Sabotage”
Oil drilling rigs are leaving the Gulf of Mexico for locations all over the world. More are slated to follow. Oil and gas producers are looking for some sign that the regulatory climate is going to experience a favorable change, and they aren’t seeing it. Kevin Mooney at Master Resource has an informative piece on [...]
News You Don’t Hear: One Year after the Gulf Oil Spill, Things are Mostly Normal
Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail has a good piece on the condition of the Gulf of Mexico one year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Despite the media’s doom and gloom predictions, and insistence on portraying every aspect of the spill as “disaster,” that’s not what happened. In some ways, in fact, the [...]
Did the government cause the Gulf oil spill?
This is very interesting. Could the actions, or lack thereof, of the government have caused the Deepwater Horizon rig to topple, thereby breaking the pipe that was containing the oil? Read about it at Hot Air: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/30/did-the-government-cause-the-gulf-spill/
The environmental disaster that, well, wasn’t
It appears that even the lame-stream media (LSM) is starting to get it: there isn’t really an “environmental disaster” in the Gulf of Mexico The Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion was a terrible tragedy for the workers who were killed and their families. The resulting oil spill, touted nightly on news reports with dramatic “Day x” [...]
