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10045. greystoke - 6/18/2010 12:51:06 AM Haley Barbour Says to Keep on Drilling
"Appearing Sunday CBS television's "Face the Nation," Barbour repeated what he has said publicly several times the past few weeks -- that he doesn't believe there should be a moratorium on exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
"There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time something like this has ever happened," Barbour said. "And we need to get to the bottom of it, find out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again. But I think it is very reasonable to continue to drill."
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Its getting harder and harder to feel sorry for the people of the Gulf Coast when they have idiots like this leading them. Seriously. Maybe we should just let them foul their own nest. 10046. greystoke - 6/18/2010 12:56:00 AM Haley Barbour Says to Keep on Drilling
"Appearing Sunday CBS television's "Face the Nation," Barbour repeated what he has said publicly several times the past few weeks -- that he doesn't believe there should be a moratorium on exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
"There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time something like this has ever happened," Barbour said. "And we need to get to the bottom of it, find out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again. But I think it is very reasonable to continue to drill."
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Its getting harder and harder to feel sorry for the people of the Gulf Coast when they have idiots like this leading them. Seriously. Maybe we should just let them foul their own nest. 10047. greystoke - 6/18/2010 12:58:27 AM oops 10048. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 6/18/2010 1:21:21 AM 
10049. thoughtful - 6/18/2010 2:57:10 PM From a sarah palin tweet:
"Extreme Greenies:see now why we push'drill,baby,drill'of known reserves&promising finds in safe onshore places like ANWR? Now do you get it?" 10050. greystoke - 6/18/2010 5:21:44 PM One problem with her logic is that the oil companies and their Republican water boys told us that offshore drilling was completely safe, too.
10051. vonKreedon - 6/18/2010 10:28:55 PM Not to mention, ummm...
Alaska Oil Spill Fuels Concerns Over Arctic Wildlife, Future Drilling
10052. greystoke - 6/19/2010 1:28:31 AM 2006 ??? Old news. I am sure that Big Oil has put procedures in place to make drilling completely safe in onshore places. Would Sarah lie to us?
10053. greystoke - 6/19/2010 1:29:34 AM What are you, an Extreme Greenie ? 10054. vonKreedon - 6/19/2010 7:57:33 AM You betcha {;-) 10055. alistairConnor - 6/21/2010 11:22:10 AM You couldn't make it up...
10056. wabbit - 6/22/2010 3:01:56 PM AC's link: You couldn't make it up...
I just posted this same link in American Politics. She's unreal. I guess that makes me an Extreme Greenie. 10057. judithathome - 6/22/2010 4:25:05 PM Last night...or rather early this morning...I watched a documentary that made me ill: it's called Gasland and I recommend it highly. I'll put it this way: my city was mentioned in it and the subject matter...natural gas wells...is probably coming to neighborhood near you soon.
I had NO idea the drilling was on such a massive scale! This was a chilling eye-opener, even if the director had an anti-gaswell slant...if even a third of what he shows is factual and not biased filming, we're playing with fire. Literally.
Basically, we're doing (or having it done to us) to the underground water supply what BP is doing to the Gulf.
10058. vonKreedon - 6/23/2010 6:40:11 PM Breaking news: AP has announced that US Army General David Petraeus has been named to replace General McChrystal
This is, IMO, great news. 10059. greystoke - 6/24/2010 12:40:39 AM Judith,
Josh Fox came to my town in PA and showed it at our theater a few weeks ago. Not a single elected official showed up, and if any oil or gas men showed up they didn't say a word.
I believe what he showed. Marcellus Shale drilling here in PA is bad for the environment in multiple ways --
1. streams are dewatered as the drillers pump the water from there to well for hydrofracturing.
2. They mix the water with poisonous chemicals and pump it into the ground. Only about half of it comes back out, and that is supposed to be treated. Of course it often gets dumped into the streams without being treated because that is a whole lot cheaper.
3. They fracture the rock allowing the fluids and the gas to get into the ground water.
We have been repeatedly assured by the oil and gas companies and our elected officials that its completely safe. Sound familiar? 10060. arkymalarky - 6/24/2010 7:47:04 PM One thing I love about where we live is our excellent well water. Same for the cabin in CO. I wouldn't give that up for any amount of money and thankfully no one around us in either place can screw it up. 10061. arkymalarky - 6/24/2010 7:49:13 PM We could have city water, but when we were on it it smelled like bleach. Cleaning bad water isn't that appealing, even if they really do it. 10062. judithathome - 6/26/2010 3:41:33 AM We have been repeatedly assured by the oil and gas companies and our elected officials that its completely safe. Sound familiar?
Oh, definitely; if their lips are moving, they're lying...they store the frac water in huge birms and install sprayers underneath the surface...in the hottest part of the day they spray the standing, tainted water into the air so it will evaporate more quickly...where the hell do they think all the impurities go? Into the air!
And this town has a very low water table...my ex dug our well with a post hole digger! Sure, we only used that water for the lawn but it wasn't a hugely deep well...there's no way I believe that fracking BS doesn't contaminate the water table.
We get our drinking water from a lake reservoir but the water IN IT comes from somewhere besides rainfall. Run off from the low water table, no doubt.
10063. judithathome - 6/26/2010 3:42:17 AM Arky, are they doing gas well drilling anywhere near y'all? 10064. arkymalarky - 6/26/2010 5:02:14 PM Nope. That's what made me think how lucky we are. The closest problems we've had are the chicken farm (for sale again) and the hog farm that's now gone, and they weren't close enough to affect us. In fact, I don't know of any gas drilling anywhere, tho I'm sure they're drilling somewhere in AR.
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