Gulf of Mexico drilling companies push back on Obama’s ‘de facto moratorium’

By Amanda Carey:

“Our education campaign will call him out on the facts: The Obama administration is not issuing deepwater drilling permits, and the results have been devastating. It’s hurting tens of thousands of workers, increasing prices for gasoline and heating oil, and making America even more dependent on foreign oil,” said Hornbeck.

Jim Adams, the president of OMSA added that Obama’s response to the oil spill over the summer was “unreasonable, unwarranted, unfair and unlawful.”

The Daily Caller reported that Texas-based Seahawk Drilling last week became the first company in the Gulf to go bankrupt as a result of the government-imposed shortage of shallow-water permits.

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