Drilling companies will return to gulf after successful moratorium returns desired results
Friday, August 6th, 2010Well would you look at that!
After all the nay saying and doom and gloom that people tried to have us believe that if a moratorium was put in place that the companies would just get up and leave and never come back…
Despite uncertainty about when the federal moratorium on deepwater oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico may be lifted, drilling companies say they are readying to return to work, maintaining their full complement of rig workers at full pay, and making improvements in their rigs to meet new federal safety standards required by the Interior Department.
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The remarks by Newman and Williams and the assessment of industry representatives, indicate that, despite concerns that the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by the Obama administration would cost rig workers their jobs and send rigs en masse to distant shores in search of work, so far that is not the case.
So it seems, the moratorium has not caused most of the companies drilling in deep water to leave and that in the short term during the moratorium, those companies are working to improve the quality of their disaster prevention techniques (exactly what the moratorium was supposed to do). We have the BP money that was set aside to pay those who lost work on those rigs and to also potentially help those whose jobs including supporting those rigs as well.
Seems as if all the chicken little politicians, like David Vitter and Bobby Jindal, have absolutely no idea what they are talking about when it comes to their criticism of President Obama and his successful moratorium plan.

