We Need To Drill Period NYT End Of Story

Opinion/Editorial

 

 The New York Times and their little cronies just cannot get it or wan tto get it it seems.We as a nation need to get off our addiction to foreign oil.The only way to achieve it is to drill for our own oil/gas.
 This mornings NYT second lead OPED entitled "Getting Arctic Drilling Right" is more of the same whining and complaining as to why we can't drill and the alleged effects to the environment.
 It begins "Oil drilling off the North Slope of Alaska now seems virtually a sure thing. This month, the Interior Department gave tentative approval to Shell’s plans for responding to a potential spill in the Chukchi Sea, an important step toward approval of the company’s plan to drill six wells in the Chukchi’s frigid and forbidding waters. The company still needs a permit, and before the administration grants one it must be absolutely sure that Shell can meet the safety conditions stipulated in the approval.

The costs of a mistake could be very high. Many environmentalists have argued against any drilling in Arctic waters, given their value to wildlife — and given weather conditions that would make cleaning up a spill especially difficult. We believe this particular project is worth the effort, but only if done right. Estimates of recoverable reserves in the Chukchi and nearby Beaufort Seas range as high as 30 billion barrels of oil, about four years’ worth of consumption in the United States.

Shell must meet two main conditions. The first is to complete and test a well-capping system that can quickly contain a blowout in a harsh and unfamiliar environment. Among the most searing memories left by the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was the complete helplessness of industry and government officials as a runaway well spilled nearly 5 million barrels, or 206 million gallons, before it was finally capped.The other condition is that Shell, along with the Coast Guard and other agencies, conduct extensive spill response drills — in the open ocean, not “tabletop” exercises — to test the booms, skimmers, support vessels and all the other moving parts necessary to collect whatever oil escapes before a blowout is plugged."

 So now all of a sudden the NYT are experts now in drilling for oil as they think they are in everything else.Keep defending the environMENTALISTS NYT they are your religious left wingers.Oh and by the way I thought Alaska was warming oh ok change of story now to fit your leftist agenda.

 It appears that the NYT is still suffering from what the rest of the far socialist communist left is BBDS (Blaming Bush Derrangement Syndrome) "President George W. Bush recklessly proposed opening just about all of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas to drilling. The Obama administration canceled that plan in favor of what it says will be a more modest and scientifically rigorous proposal, due in midsummer. Environmentalists are urging the government to put particularly sensitive areas off-limits entirely, and we agree. The most important thing right now is to get off to a credible start by making the Shell project as mistake-proof as possible."

 Yeah right recklessly and the blame game continues to reveal its ugly head.But the Obama administration will listen to the real so called experts the enviornMENTALISTS along with the NYT.Yeah environMENTALISTS that believe in global warming no wait cliamte change or whatever they call it today a made up BS agenda and a religion of the left