Alabama, Mississippi senators push for easing of drilling moratorium

Source: Mobile Press-Register

Gulf Coast senators are pressing federal regulators to resume processing permits for off-shore drilling in shallow waters, saying that a moratorium imposed earlier this month is too broad.

In a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today, the lawmakers said that shallow-water wells mostly involve "natural gas resources with less environmental risks, and these wells are drilled in predictable and mature reservoirs."

If the moratorium, which was imposed earlier this month in response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is not lifted soon, most of the approximately 57 shallow-water rigs in the gulf "will be unable to work," the letter states.

The letter was released late this afternoon by Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Oxford, who signed it along with the state's other senator, Roger Wicker, R-Tupelo. The remaining eight signers include Alabama Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, and Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, according to an accompanying news release.


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Timing is everything. Brilliant! :crazy:

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And how does using a racist term strengthen, and not totally render moot, you point?

shows up in Alabama and Mississippi?

we need the income from off-shore drilling to save our states!"

That's about as cynical and cold as politicians get. :mad:

And they would ask if they could have another.

You can't fix STUPID!

And they say "more alligators".

I hope the national MSM will pick this up and run with it. :evilgrin:

:rofl:

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Depressing.