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House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: Written responses from Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to questions submitted for the hearing record by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, oversight hearing on the FY 2008 Department of the Interior budget proposal, March 1, 2007
Even if none of that mattered: there is a 5-year backlog of offshore drilling rigs waiting to be built.
And even if that didn't matter: Dennis Knizley looks out on an oil rig beached just off of Dauphin Island, Ala., Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 30, 2005, a day after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the island and brought the enormous structure a few hundred yards from shore. (AP Photo/Birmingham Post-Herald, Jan-Michael Stump)
There are liars who will tell you that offshore drilling is safe; so safe that 2005's big hurricanes had no impact or oil spills. Ask those liars to explain this:
"The hurricanes totally destroyed 113 oil rigs, according to the government's Minerals Management Service, and damaged 457 pipelines. The resulting oil spills were large enough to be seen from space, according to several reports.
A review by the Houston Chronicle reported that the two storms in the summer of 2005 caused 595 oil spills that released an estimated 9 million gallons of oil into the gulf, much of that from oil storage facilities on the shores. The government said there were a total of 146 small oil spills in federal waters caused by the storms."
Isn't that like a kid
Labels: big oil, blm, bureau of land management, Department of the Interior, exploration, gasoline price, House Appropriations Subcommittee, Maurice Hinchey, millions of acres, offshore drilling, permits
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