Good Luck Trying to Figure This One Out: Is Shallow Water Drilling Banned, Or Not?

Joe Schoffstall Thursday, June 3, 2010 - 11:41am Tweet Earlier on Thursday, an e-mail from the Minerals Management Service's (MMS) supervisor of field operations for the Gulf of Mexico, said that drilling would be stopped in shallow waters in the Gulf due to the recent oil rig explosion.Now, the Interior Department has denied this. A spokesman from the department said "shallow water drilling may continue as long as oil and gas operations satisfy the environmental and safety requirements Secretary [Ken] Salazar outlined in his report to the President and have exploration plans that meet those requirements. There is no moratorium on shallow water drilling", according to the Washington Post.Kendra Barkoff, a spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told the AP "There is a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling," Barkoff said in an e-mail Thursday. "Shallow-water drilling may continue as long as oil and gas operations satisfy the environmental and safety requirements Secretary Salazar outlined in his report to the president and have exploration plans that meet those requirements. There is no moratorium on shallow water drilling."In essence, shallow water drilling was declared banned until further notice, but not really. It get's a tiny bit more confusing.A regional supervisor of the MMA Gulf region told one company looking to obtain a permit that"until further notice we have been informed not to approve or allow any drilling no matter the water depth,"The weird thing noted by WaPo was just three days before the e-mail exchange, the supervisor told the same company that the Obama moratorium would not affect drilling in water up to 500 feet.I guess the real question is: Does anyone know what's really going on? Highly unlikely. View the discussion thread. More Author PostsMost Popular Egypt's Morsi, North Korea's Kim Jung Un Lead Early Voting For Person of the Year 1 week 6 days ago Chris Matthews Ecstatic Hurricane Sandy Devastation Helped Obama 4 weeks 5 days ago Certified GOP Poll Watchers Allegedly Turned Away in Florida 4 weeks 6 days ago Obama Mural Painted Within Polling Station In Philadelphia 4 weeks 6 days ago Black Grassroots Activists Protest Obama Fundraiser, City Hall, ABC News In Chicago 5 weeks 7 hours ago Bill Clinton: 'You should care whether your president is telling you the truth' 5 weeks 21 hours ago Mitt Romney Will Win The Election, According To The 'Redskins Rule' 5 weeks 1 day ago Allen West Publicly Scolds Media Tracker At Vietnam Memorial Service 5 weeks 6 days ago Criminal Investigation Launched After Jim Moran Undercover Video 6 weeks 4 days ago EPA Designates Millions More Towards 'Environmental Justice' 7 weeks 3 days ago

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