Sarah Palin claims environmentalists caused the Gulf oil spill

[randymatt]

Sarah Palin claims environmentalists caused the Gulf oil spill

Sarah Palin, the well-known American politician, accuses extreme environmentalists of causing the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sarah Palin, once the republican candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States, says that extreme environmentalists "hypocritically protest domestic energy production offshore and onshore".

There is nothing clean and green about their efforts, she says. They merely move jobs and opportunity to foreign countries from which the United States now depends, and some of these countries don't care as much for the environment as the US does, given their less strict environmental standards.

Palin says that extreme deep water drilling is not the first choice, but has become a necessity because environmentalists start lawsuits and are lying about onshore and shallow water drilling which has led to declaring safe drilling areas off-limits.

Permission is needed for drilling in safer areas, such as the ANWR. She claims that drilling for oil in the pristine and uninhabited area requires only a tiny footprint, the size of the airport of Los Angeles, and she quotes current Alaska governor Sean Parnell who says something about "enormous hydrocarbons" to show that she is not alone in thinking so.

Sarah Palin concludes:

Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/292916

[RJB]

Although unrealistic, I was hoping for a charge of a false flag attack...

[Large Sarge]

this guys says basically the same thing "regulations forced them out to deep water"

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article20006.html

History: In 1983, I served as a Senior Program Mgr for Shell Oil Company for the design of Shell's Eureka Offshore oil platform. This offshore oil platform is in 760 ft of water (13 miles out from San Pedro, Ca) and at the time it was the deepest offshore oil platform in the world. Twenty-seven years later we are drilling wells in 5000 feet to 9000 feet of water in the Gulf Mexico using semi-submersible drilling rigs where the wells are often greater than 15000 feet below the seabed. Over the past three years, about 26% of the entire oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico are in water depths in excess of 5000 ft. In part, Government regulations and environmental groups have forced the oil companies to go explore in deepwater versus drilling "pristine lands". The potential damage issues to the environment/economic well-being of the population have probably increased by a factor of a 1000+ in the event of a major deepwater oil well blow-out.

[Neuro]

I think she has a good point. It is obvious that capping a well, and any potential problems in the exploration grows exponentially with water depth. Certainly it is possible that the gulf of Mexico disaster was caused by conspiracy, but the well would have been capped long ago in shallow water or on land.

[StackerKen]

maybe not


http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/bp-oil-spill-is-nothing-new/new/#new

[Twisted Titan]

And where do the "radical greenies" get all that lawsuit money from????


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_zwkn_g94

[Quantum]

She's a kook.

[Large Sarge]

She's a kook.


a zionist kook

but she is correct, granting even the "false flag" thing, if this had happened in a hundred feet of water, it would all be sealed up.

[JDRock]

denninger at ( zerohedge) has provided PROOF that goldman did indeed short the gulf so to speak as well as cash out MILLIONS of $ stock conviently just before the "{ accident" :oo-->"

[Quantum]

She's a kook.


a zionist kook

but she is correct, granting even the "false flag" thing, if this had happened in a hundred feet of water, it would all be sealed up.




If Palin-supporting, ultra-right-wing, Military-Industrial Complex member Halliburton had not (deliberately?) fvcked up the work on the seafloor, we wouldn't have this spew.

[gunDriller]

denninger at ( zerohedge) has provided PROOF that goldman did indeed short the gulf so to speak as well as cash out MILLIONS of $ stock conviently just before the :oo-->"


there is abundant proof that BP was being deliberately reckless and sloppy in terms of work practices on the Deepwater Horizon.

whether this was done to increase the chances of a big disaster, my guess is, we'll never know.

in one of the interviews, it was with the father of a Deepwater Horizon rig worker, who described all the emails he got from his son in the weeks before the accident. his son was saying, "they're rushing, they're cutting corners, i'm scared something bad is going to happen." his son is now dead, he died in the fireball.

there's a fine line between realizing that the chance of an accident is greatly increased - this came out in a Matt Simmons interview. he's about 70 and has been in the industry 50 years, and he says BP has a reckless culture and Petrobras has a much more careful culture in a recent interview. Petrobras is developing a large deep water oil well near Brazil.

as far as Palin - i don't think she is smart enough to be President. for her to single out environmentalists without saying anything about BP's culpability - says more about her than it does about BP.

this incident might be bullish for oil sands operations. the insurance for deep water drilling is going UP - and oil sands won't have that expense. so Canada benefits a little and Venezuela benefits a little. i mention them because they both have major oil sands deposits.

[Neuro]

It is off course a possibility that BP and the environmentalists are on the same side re deep water drilling. By prohibiting shallow water and land drilling, you disqualify any smaller participants from exploration, and limiting the output of oil = more expensive oil... Thus more profit for BP...

It should be obvious now that deep water drilling isn't better for the environment. And environmentalists who have so argued should be ashamed of theirselves.

[Quantum]

It is off course a possibility that BP and the environmentalists are on the same side re deep water drilling. By prohibiting shallow water and land drilling, you disqualify any smaller participants from exploration, and limiting the output of oil = more expensive oil... Thus more profit for BP...

It should be obvious now that deep water drilling isn't better for the environment. And environmentalists who have so argued should be ashamed of theirselves.


You have to drill where the oil field is. Not everything is easy to get at. Environmentalists have argued against all offshore oil drilling - they've been mostly successful with shallower waters, because those are often state-controlled.

[Brent]

Although unrealistic, I was hoping for a charge of a false flag attack...


She is bought and paid for, won't see anything controversial out of her unless she is told to do so.