Obama and market forces, not kayaktivists, thwarted Shell’s arctic drilling
Oct 1, 2015, 9:51 AM | Updated: 10:10 am
Kayaktivists protest the Shell Oil rig in Seattle's Elliott Bay over the summer. (AP)
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Taken from Tuesday’s edition of KTTH Radio’s The David Boze Show.
The city of Seattle is celebrating the announcement from Shell Oil that they will not be pursuing drilling in the Arctic after all.
“You know what was challenging and unpredictable? Us,” Shell No activist Zarna Joshi told KIRO 7 News. “David can bring down Goliath and we did it.”
Mayor Mike McGinn was giving himself credit as well, I was watching that on Twitter. I thought, isn’t it market forces in many ways? Because they said well we didn’t find enough oil to justify the expense so we’re not going to be there.
Mayor McGinn said wait a second, they also said it was an uncertain regulatory environment, so that’s us!
Now by uncertain regulatory environment, my guess would be, not the kayaktivists, but the Obama administration and their habit of pursuing companies that they disagree with and doing things that might be illegal, as they did with some coal companies. When they fight them in court in a couple of years, all the damage has already been done. The companies have already spent the extreme amounts necessary to come into some kind of compliance, or they’ve gone out of business.
The attitude of Foss Maritime was, hey, we’re going to find someone else to get this job. That’s great. The activists were, yeah! We got rid of these jobs!
I’m thinking, you’re probably the same person running around for $15 an hour. Most of you have some kind of high tech job or consulting job. The blue collar guys that were working on this crew doing the wrench turning in life, providing for their families, they just got screwed out of a job and you’re dancing in the streets because it’s not going to impact you.
You get the benefit of energy production, but you don’t have to worry about turning a wrench. A lot of people do. Those are the jobs that help them pay for their families.
You’re doing the dance supposedly because you saved the planet, but is there any less oil that’s going to be utilized? I seriously doubt it.
Under current conditions it’s not worth it to go get this oil. If in the future oil became more scarce, odds are it might be worth going to get it, but the activists are very thrilled with thwarting the couple hundred jobs.
I also loved how Seattle was trying to determine what kinds of jobs they would allow at this terminal.
Oh, I’m just not sure if we want somebody back there if they are at all related to the oil industry.
How about just saying anyone who wants to use that in a legal business, go for it.
Taken from Tuesday’s edition of KTTH Radio’s The David Boze Show.
JR
