Politics is all about compromise, but sometimes what is given up hurts. In this case it more threat to the Gulf of Mexico.
One would think that after Deepwater Horizon no one would even think about drilling in the Gulf. The damage from that inexcusable tragedy will go on for decades to come.
Fracking the Gulf however, has gone on like gangbusters in the past and our government has used that water body as a cesspool dumping ground.
Turns out that the EPA has nothing on the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, as they both routinely put industry [read money] over our environment. The FDEP routinely dumps toxic waste water that our phosphate industry can’t handle into the Gulf to accompany those rusting barrels of poison that the EPA dumped there.
So the fracking and the poisons continue in the Gulf of Mexico with our governments’ blessings.
Read the complete article here in the Washington Post.
Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum.
jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org
– A river is like a life: once taken,
it cannot be brought back © Jim Tatum
Administration awards Gulf of Mexico drilling leases to oil giants
The leases from a 2021 sale were given to oil and gas companies as part of a deal with Sen. Manchin over climate legislation
On Wednesday, the Biden administration sought to stress that the sale would “protect biologically sensitive resources, mitigate potential adverse effects on protected species and avoid potential ocean user conflicts.”
Chevron submitted the highest sum of winning bids at $47 million. Other major successful bidders included Anadarko, BP, Shell and Exxon Mobil.
The Inflation Reduction Act specifies how the administration should deal with lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. It instructs the administration to hold another lease sale for oil and gas alone. Subsequently, the bill says, there will be sales of oil and gas leases coordinated with lease sales of renewable energy from wind turbines….
