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As oil spill hits Louisiana coast, critics assail Obama's offshore drilling plan
The Washington Post.....
The worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday threatened not only the shores of five states but also President Obama's plan to open vast stretches of U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.
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<script> <!-- var rn = ( Math.round( Math.random()*10000000000 ) ); document.write('<s\cript src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/29/AR2010042902290_StoryJs.js?'+rn+'"></s\cript>') ; // --> </script><script src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/29/AR2010042902290_StoryJs.js?9927424299"></script> Hours before the spill started washing ashore in Louisiana late Thursday, members of Congress issued new calls for Obama to abandon his plans for expanded offshore drilling, and White House officials conceded that the spreading oil slick could cause the president to rethink his position. "We need to figure out what happened," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. "Would a finding of something possibly affect that? Of course."
The outlook in the Gulf of Mexico remained bleak in the wake of the April 20 explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and killed 11 workers. A change in the weather and choppy waters prevented a second burn of oil at sea and slowed efforts by a flotilla of ships to skim the oily mixture from the surface of the gulf, federal officials said. Continuing efforts to use remote-controlled robotic submarines to activate a malfunctioning blowout preventer lying on the sea floor in 5,000 feet of water failed.
The Coast Guard approved an experimental plan by petroleum giant BP, which had leased the rig, to apply chemical dispersants underwater near the places where oil is gushing from three breaks in the well pipes at an estimated rate of 5,000 barrels a day.
In Washington, the White House held a series of high-profile media events aimed at communicating that the administration is fully engaged in the crisis. Obama went to the Rose Garden and said, "While BP is ultimately responsible for funding the cost of response and cleanup operations, my administration will continue to use every single available resource at our disposal, including potentially the Department of Defense, to address the incident."
At a midday news conference, the administration rolled out two Cabinet chiefs and other senior White House advisers to assert that the government would do whatever it could to help BP stop the leak.
The administration is well aware that the president's campaign victory was built in part on a belief among voters that he would do a better job at responding to disasters like Hurricane Katrina than did President Bush. "This is in that list: Are you competently running government?" Gibbs said. He said the news conference with senior officials was aimed at letting the press and the public "know what we've done to respond."
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The worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday threatened not only the shores of five states but also President Obama's plan to open vast stretches of U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.
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- Gulf of Mexico oil spill reaches Louisiana coast
- Spilled oil burned in gulf in hopes of saving coast
- Gulf oil spill could hit Louisiana coast Thursday night
- NOAA official: Gulf oil spill a 'grave concern'
- Oil spills throughout history
- Crews try setting fire to oil leaking in Gulf
- Obama officials to oversee oil slick cleanup
- Map: Oil spill
- Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico creates dilemmas in nature and politics
- How an oil burn works
- Oil spill to be set ablaze
- Deepwater Horizon explosion in Gulf of Mexico sends oil slick toward U.S. coastline
- Gulf Coast oil spill could eclipse Exxon Valdez
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<script> <!-- var rn = ( Math.round( Math.random()*10000000000 ) ); document.write('<s\cript src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/29/AR2010042902290_StoryJs.js?'+rn+'"></s\cript>') ; // --> </script><script src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/29/AR2010042902290_StoryJs.js?9927424299"></script> Hours before the spill started washing ashore in Louisiana late Thursday, members of Congress issued new calls for Obama to abandon his plans for expanded offshore drilling, and White House officials conceded that the spreading oil slick could cause the president to rethink his position. "We need to figure out what happened," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. "Would a finding of something possibly affect that? Of course."
The outlook in the Gulf of Mexico remained bleak in the wake of the April 20 explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and killed 11 workers. A change in the weather and choppy waters prevented a second burn of oil at sea and slowed efforts by a flotilla of ships to skim the oily mixture from the surface of the gulf, federal officials said. Continuing efforts to use remote-controlled robotic submarines to activate a malfunctioning blowout preventer lying on the sea floor in 5,000 feet of water failed.
The Coast Guard approved an experimental plan by petroleum giant BP, which had leased the rig, to apply chemical dispersants underwater near the places where oil is gushing from three breaks in the well pipes at an estimated rate of 5,000 barrels a day.
In Washington, the White House held a series of high-profile media events aimed at communicating that the administration is fully engaged in the crisis. Obama went to the Rose Garden and said, "While BP is ultimately responsible for funding the cost of response and cleanup operations, my administration will continue to use every single available resource at our disposal, including potentially the Department of Defense, to address the incident."
At a midday news conference, the administration rolled out two Cabinet chiefs and other senior White House advisers to assert that the government would do whatever it could to help BP stop the leak.
The administration is well aware that the president's campaign victory was built in part on a belief among voters that he would do a better job at responding to disasters like Hurricane Katrina than did President Bush. "This is in that list: Are you competently running government?" Gibbs said. He said the news conference with senior officials was aimed at letting the press and the public "know what we've done to respond."
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