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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
White House is instantly appealing it. The fight is on. My money is on the Feds.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the government will immediately appeal the ruling to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. LINK |
what a fucking cluster fuck. i don't get it. the moratorium is ridiculous.
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"The president strongly believes, as the Department of Interior and Department of Justice argued yesterday, that continuing to drill at these depths without knowing what happened does not make any sense," Gibbs said. Such drilling "puts the safety of those involved, potentially puts safety of those on the rigs and the safety of the environment and the Gulf at a danger that the president does not believe we can afford right now."
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how can obama and the white house claim this bullshit while the atlantis rig is still drilling?