U.S. Judge blocks Obama Deepwater Ban
In a significant blow to the Obama Administration, a federal judge has blocked the Obama Administration’s moratorium on off shore oil and gas drilling.
U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans issued a preliminary injunction that keeps the Interior Department from enforcing the ban.
The administration issued a six-month moratorium in response for the Deepwater Horizon disaster inside the Gulf of Mexico. It reasoned that because the cause from the accident wasn’t clear, a moratorium was necessary to make certain that continued drilling could possibly be carried out safely.
But the moratorium’s opponents — including oil business and state and local government officials, in addition to workers and even those like fishermen hurt by the oil spill disaster — said the administration’s moratorium was arbitrary and that there was nothing inherently dangerous about offshore drilling.
They referred to as the ban a further blow, following the BP oil spill, for the Gulf Coast region’s economy that would unnecessarily price thousands of jobs and billions of dollars. Judge Feldman agreed.
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