{"id":6698,"date":"2010-08-21T15:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T19:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2010-08-21T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T19:40:44","slug":"obama-administration-knowingly-killed-jobs-with-drilling-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6698\/obama-administration-knowingly-killed-jobs-with-drilling-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Administration Knowingly Killed Jobs with Drilling Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s some <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704488404575441760384563880.html \" target=\"_blank\">fodder for your two minutes of hate<\/a>, courtesy of the Obama White House:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senior Obama administration officials concluded the federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling would cost roughly 23,000 jobs, but went ahead with the ban because they didn&#8217;t trust the industry&#8217;s safety equipment and the government&#8217;s own inspection process, according to previously undisclosed documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Spanning more than 27,000 pages, they provide an unusually detailed look at the debate about how to respond to legal and political opposition to the moratorium.<\/p>\n<p>They show the new top regulator or offshore oil exploration, Michael Bromwich, told Interior Secretary Ken Salazar that a six-month deepwater-drilling halt would result in &#8220;lost direct employment&#8221; affecting approximately 9,450 workers and &#8220;lost jobs from indirect and induced effects&#8221; affecting about 13,797 more. The July 10 memo cited an analysis by Mr. Bromwich&#8217;s agency that assumed direct employment on affected rigs would &#8220;resume normally once the rigs resume operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T: <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s some fodder for your two minutes of hate, courtesy of the Obama White House: Senior Obama administration officials concluded the federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling would cost roughly 23,000 jobs, but went ahead with the ban because they didn&#8217;t trust the industry&#8217;s safety equipment and the government&#8217;s own inspection process, according to previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1746,1320,27,18],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-drilling-moratorium","tag-gulf-oil-spill","tag-jobs","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6700,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}