http://factcheck.org/2012/07/senator-mangles-facts-on-drilling-moratorium/
In an email to constituents, Republican Sen. David Vitterof Louisiana claims “the Obama administration shut down the entire offshore oil and gas industry” after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. That’s not true.
The administration halted the drilling of all new wells for one month. And the Interior Department issued a months-long moratorium on deepwater drilling. New safety requirements also slowed down the permitting process for shallow-water drilling.
But existing offshore wells continued to pump out natural gas and oil.
Our thanks to a Louisiana resident who sent us the senator’s email and pointed out Vitter’s false claim. We’re including this piece on our Spin Detectors page, through which we ask our readers to help us monitor political claims and campaigns across the country. The Louisiana reader asked us to withhold his name.
Misrepresenting the Moratorium
Vitter makes his “shut down” claim in a July 11 constituent email. His letter focuses on government investigations into an administration report that recommended the drilling moratorium.
David Vitter, July 11: Louisiana is still suffering from the job-crushing moratorium put in place after the BP oil spill. The Obama administration shut down the entire offshore oil and gas industry and thousands of jobs were lost because of it. Many Louisianians, including myself, pleaded for answers to why this happened, but we could never get a clear one.
The entire industry was not “shut down.” The government’s action affected only the drilling of new wells.
The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010, killed 11 people and resulted in the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
Ten days after the disaster, White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the administration would halt new drilling in domestic areas until “there is an adequate review of what happened here and what is being proposed elsewhere.”
On May 6, Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar announced in a press release that “no applications for drilling permits will go forward for any new offshore drilling activity until the Department of the Interior completes the safety review process that President Obama requested.”
this is one of a long list of right wing misinformation, designed to mislead, they put this fraudulent info out and instantly all their under informed run and tell it as it was fraudulently constructed. seems lately i have had occasion to mention right wing and fraud in the same sentence, hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/Should-Obama-Take-Credit-For-Oil-Production-Hike.htm
but the right wants "we the people" to believe he is all the names you've heard them call him and more, with one note; "FRAUDULENTLY".
Following the month-long review process, the administration did three things: It imposed a six-month moratorium on drilling deeper than 500 feet. It lifted the temporary freeze on drilling in shallower waters. And it issued new safety requirements with which all drilling companies must comply.
The Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, a trade group, said the deepwater drilling moratorium did “not affect the 4,515 shallow-water wells, and it does not affect 591 producing deepwater Gulf wells.”
and here again fraud proven us for now 2 republicans in Pennsylvania, goose egg.
