OPEC urges US to 'look again' at offshore drilling ban

[demoleft]

Source: afp

AFP - OPEC urged the United States on Monday to reconsider legal moves and ditch a ban on deep-water drilling slapped on the oil industry in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

"We should not really ban it and we should not jump to conclusions without serious study," OPEC secretary general Abdullah al-Badri said after meeting with European Union energy chiefs in Brussels.
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Across the board, he said that "if there is any adjustment that has to be made to present operations we should make that, but we should really be very careful" about rushing in, with an eye on supply levels and the effect on price and the global economy.

However, he reiterated: "I'm sure that the United States government is in limbo because they don't know what's going on in their operation and that's why they stopped their offshore operation.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20100628-opec-urges-us-look-again-offshore-drilling-ban

[aquart]

1. OPEC can go to Hell.

Unless they have a demonstrably successful way to cap a deepwater well, of course.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Fine. Drill offshore somewhere else.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Excellent suggestion

[BrklynLiberal]

3. No doubt they have only the best interests of the US and its citizens at heart.

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[defendandprotect]

5. eh . . . the Gulf disaster seems to be sending a message that we should "jump to conclusions" -- !!

[ladywnch]

6. well, if OPEC thinks offshore drilling ban needs "looked at again"

I'm more certain now than I was 6 weeks ago that drilling should be banned!

Just like everytime BP's lips are moving, they're lying; so it is with OPEC

[GlennWRECK]

11. So it is

[Divine Discontent]

7. yes, OPEC figureheads, keep talking - help public support cement against you a-holes

[gratuitous]

8. OPEC and the GOP

Strange bedfellows, n'est-ce pas?

[lsewpershad]

9. All the guys

only care about their bottom line. They fail to realize that all this shit will one day also kill them as it is destroying the gulf now. To hell with OPEC

[truth2power]

10. And they're talking about 33 wells out of about 3,000. Geez! n/t

[bc3000]

12. Money talks. Is OPEC going to contribute to cleanup expenses?