In 2009, the Obama administration intervened to support the reversal of a court order that would have halted offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has long had close ties to the industry, specifically cited BP’s Deepwater Horizon operation as one that should be allowed to go forward, according to a
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as always, yes.
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Um, because even if they're pro-drilling one would hope that they would be pro-caution, pro-~sensible~ drilling (whatever the fuck that means), pro-environmental impact studies, and pro-not-fucking-up-the-environment-in-a-disastrous-way as well, which is certainly the media message this administration tries to sell: That they are for drilling and other traditional forms of dirty energy but haven't lost sight of traditionally Democratic/liberal environmental concerns.
What these actions show is that the culture at the Dept. of the Interior under this administration is not different enough from the previous one to net a different outcome when it comes to the favors done for the oil industry; as the article implies the fact that Salazar was appointed to the Dept. was an early dead giveaway that things were not going to go well for environmentalists with this administration.
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American Petroleum Institute has the interests of environmentalists in mind, I'm sure...working against climate change legislation of any kind and all.
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But why does anybody have any doubts anymore anyways about whether or not the Democrats/government at large are tied with corporate interests? They irrevocably are, it's not really news. It's just more on the degree to as such.
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S: (n) injunction, enjoining, enjoinment, cease and desist order ((law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity) "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order"
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Once again, I'd like to mention there was a court order involved.
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