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Is Deep Water Drilling Too Risky?


Posted on Nov 01, 2010

In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last April that killed 11 oil platform workers and injured 17 others, the Obama Administration issued an oil drilling moratorium that was designed to provide the government and the industry time to make offshore drilling safer both for maritime workers and the environment.  The oil drilling moratorium was scheduled to be lifted on November 30, 2010 but was recently lifted more than a month ahead of schedule.

Why the Moratorium was Lifted Ahead of Schedule

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that the government lifted the moratorium because new safety standards make a large oil spill less likely now than it was last April, before the new standards were put into place in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Secretary Salazar cautions the public that there will be differing opinions about the decision to lift the moratorium.  He believes that some groups will find the new safety standards too stringent, and that these groups will argue that the standards unnecessarily restrict business. Other groups will argue that the moratorium was lifted too soon, and that deep water drilling remains too dangerous for offshore oil workers.

We send our condolences to the families of those killed in the Gulf Coast Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, and we hope that the new standards prove to make this dangerous work safer for our nation’s maritime workers.

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