Stop Oil Drilling In The Gulf Of Mexico

A new environmental lawsuit has popped up in an attempt to stop the administration from selling off more of Gulf of Mexico for oil drilling. Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discusses this issue.

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A new environmental lawsuit has popped up in an attempt to stop the administration from selling off more of Gulf of Mexico for oil drilling. Okay. Alright, so here we are. We live on the Gulf of Mexico in Pensacola, Florida. We've, we've seen what happens with BP. We have the entire ecosystem absolutely devastated. That really hasn't recovered. You know, we the best that we want to put a spin on it. It's recovered. Our tourism is an all time high. We're doing great. We're back. But if you go off shore far enough, you still see the remnants of this disaster which your take? You know, it, it, it never ceases to amaze me when we see the federal government and we saw during the Obama years, this is not something new, but we saw Bush, Clinton and Obama that we come through this massive disaster and we learned nothing from it. We're talking about 78 million additional acres that are up for lease right now.

And, who put them up for lease the Trump administration. Yeah. Yeah. And this is Ryan Zinky, a department of the interior, but in the media known as stinky. That's what's even dumber about this. Not My words. Yes, but they. They're trying to make it to where it's not necessarily the deep water. Which was what deepwater horizon was. No, no, no, no. These are closer inland because they think for some reason thats safer now. Could you imagine if we had the BP oil spill, but it was 10 miles out from shore. This whole area would still be covered in oil, but they think it's smarter because it's not as deep. Yeah. Their argument is we have less risk if the shallower we go, but if you've ever been to pensacola or ever been to resort beach area and you understand that you can drive a couple miles and see these oil derricks out there, you understand what the risk really is. It puts this community under huge risk. Tourism is the only way that we have to survive in this community and there's a lot of communities around the country. Typically what you'll see is you'll see these beach communities also that you'll see military involved in, you know, there'll be a military basis. They typically like to operate out of an area like this and resorts. You take the resort part of it away and it's Katie Martin. The sad part is this environmental lawsuit they're going to lose. They always lose.

Yeah, I agree. It's a very tough road. Thank you for bringing it though. I mean, you know, I'm Mike Papantonio with Farron Cousins. You're watching ring of fire.