Mary Landrieu warns of economic disaster, but Salazar not budging on drilling ban

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune

Warning that a moratorium on deepwater drilling could bring more economic ruin to the Gulf Coast than the ongoing oil spill itself, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., on Wednesday pleaded with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to reconsider the six-month "pause" on exploratory drilling.

"On behalf of the people I represent, I am asking: Can you give any time certain that we can get our people back to work?" Landrieu asked at a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Salazar said it is possible that a commission being named by the president to investigate the causes and lessons of the Deepwater Horizon blowout and the oil spill that followed could reach conclusions before its six-month mandate that would enable the administration to end the moratorium sooner, but he was making no promises.

"This could be devastating to our state and to the Gulf Coast," said Landrieu, warning that if the moratorium "lasts much longer than a few months, it could potentially wreak economic havoc on this region that exceeds the havoc wreaked" by the oil spill, the worst in American history.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/mary_landrieu_warns_of_economi.html

They don't get it at all...

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2010&type=I&cid=N00005395&newMem=N&recs=20

2010 cycle - Campaign Comm & Leadership PAC combined

Rank Contributor Total Indivs PACs
1 Entergy Corp $62,618 $42,510 $20,108
2 JPMorgan Chase & Co $47,399 $33,400 $13,999
3 Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers $40,000 $0 $40,000
4 Koch Industries $39,000 $2,500 $36,500
5 Pilot Catastrophe Services $36,800 $36,800 $0
6 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold $36,600 $27,600 $9,000
7 Patton Boggs LLP $35,350 $30,350 $5,000
8 Marathon Oil $34,950 $14,950 $20,000
9 Jones, Walker et al $34,510 $19,050 $15,460
10 Shaw Group $33,500 $16,000 $17,500
11 Planning Systems Inc $32,550 $14,050 $18,500
12 Edison Chouest Offshore $32,400 $32,400 $0
13 National Assn of Realtors $29,250 $250 $29,000
14 Northrop Grumman $28,300 $12,800 $15,500
15 Acadian Ambulance Service $28,298 $18,300 $9,998
16 United Parcel Service $27,900 $2,400 $25,500
17 ActBlue $27,050 $27,050 $0
18 Fluor Corp $24,999 $0 $24,999
19 AT&T Inc $24,530 $3,530 $21,000
20 FedEx Corp $23,250 $1,250 $22,000

criminals - all of them!
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er, I mean, election cycle

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are unaffected. Don't worry, pillaging of the land and sea will continue for your precious "jobs" outlook.

Why doesn't she ask BP that question? What a tool.

I'm from So. Louisiana, and it is evident to me that there will be a loss of jobs either way you go. I would much rather have no jobs than kill any more of our land, animals any more of our precious gulf. What a crock! I say outsource the workers to China. Why did none of them blow the whistle on these crooks? ASFAIC they do not deserve jobs anymore than the other unemployed hard working people in this country.

How horrible is it that we cannot even see what is going on at that spill. I say shut down everything until we have some answers.

affected in the oil sector. I am thinking the thousands of jobs in the other states and esp Florida's tourism industry which is our lifeblood probably exceed that. The whole picture has to be looked at. I want every well inspected before anything new is approved.

Moron!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Let's hurry and vote for this Patriot Act, because I have other more important things to do..."

What's more important than our rights?

Or are the claims not legitimate.

:banghead: How about the people that can't work because of this disaster caused by oil?

I wonder what the ratio is of oil industry jobs : fishing/tourism industry jobs in Louisiana.

I think we can probably guess the ratio of Landrieu's oil industry campaign contributions : fishing/tourism industry campaign contributions.

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And 500 of those wells are deep water.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0

Perhaps we should all call her office and pass that information along. It could be our good deed for the day.