Hiding In Plain Sight - Bobby Jindal and The Deep Ocean Resource Act - Day 64 - Any one?

[TomCADem]

It is Day 64 of the BP oil spill, and I have yet to find a major media article or story on Bobby Jindal's role in sponsoring the 2006 Deep Ocean Resource Act, which eased the regulations for the type of drilling that lead to the gulf disaster. Indeed, the version of the bill that Bobby Jindal introduced was even more favorable to the industry than the one on the books. Yet, it is Day 64, and there has yet to be any expose on Bobby Jindal's longtime role as one of the oil industries' biggest cheerleaders.

Have journalists suddenly forgot how to use google? Is the DOER Act, which concerned Deep Ocean drilling somehow irrelevant to a deep ocean drilling tragedy?

Or, perhaps it does not fit into the major media narrative portraying Jindal as a defender of Louisiana, and blaming Obama for governmental inaction when the truth is that Jindal was instrumental in paving the way to such drilling, and opposed the weak regulations that are on the books.

[Oceansaway]

1. K&R...n/t

[redqueen]

2. K&R

[blondeatlast]

3. Damn librul media. k/r

[catgirl]

4. Thanks for sharing this info

Do you have a good link on this? If so, you may want to pass it along to The Huffington Post. :-)

[KansDem]

5. It took me and Google 0.30 seconds...

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:H.R.4761:

(1) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 15, 2006
Mr. JINDAL (for himself, Mr. BAKER, Mr. BOUSTANY, and Mrs. DRAKE) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

A BILL
To provide for exploration, development, and production activities
for mineral resources on the outer Continental
Shelf, and for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Domestic Energy Pro5
duction through Offshore Exploration and Equitable
6 Treatment of State Holdings Act of 2006’’.
7 SEC. 2. POLICY.
8 It is the policy of the United States that—
2
•HR 4761 IH
1 (1) adjacent States are required by the cir2
cumstances to commit significant resources in sup3
port of exploration, development, and production ac4
tivities for mineral resources on the outer Conti5
nental Shelf, and it is fair and proper for a portion
6 of the receipts from such activities to be shared with
7 Adjacent States and their local coastal governments;
8 (2) the existing laws governing the leasing and
9 production of the mineral resources of the outer
10 Continental Shelf have reduced the production of
11 mineral resources, have preempted Adjacent States
12 from being sufficiently involved in the decisions re13
garding the allowance of mineral resource develop14
ment, and have been harmful to the national inter15
est;
16 (3) the national interest is served by granting
17 the Adjacent States more options related to whether
18 or not mineral leasing should occur in the outer
19 Continental Shelf within their Adjacent Zones;
20 (4) it is not reasonably foreseeable that explo21
ration of a leased tract located more than 25 miles
22 seaward of the coastline, development and produc23
tion of a natural gas discovery located more than 25
24 miles seaward of the coastline, or development and
25 production of an oil discovery located more than 50
3
•HR 4761 IH
1 miles seaward of the coastline will adversely affect
2 resources near the coastline;
3 (5) transportation of oil from a leased tract
4 might reasonably be foreseen, under limited cir5
cumstances, to have the potential to adversely affect
6 resources near the coastline if the oil is within 50
7 miles of the coastline, but such potential to adversely
8 affect such resources is likely no greater, and prob9
ably less, than the potential impacts from tanker
10 transportation because tanker spills usually involve
11 large releases of oil over a brief period of time; and
12 (6) among other bodies of inland waters, the
13 Great Lakes, Long Island Sound, Delaware Bay,
14 Chesapeake Bay, Albemarle Sound, San Francisco
15 Bay, and Puget Sound are not part of the outer
16 Continental Shelf, and are not subject to leasing by
17 the Federal Government for the exploration, develop18
ment, and production of any mineral resources that
19 might lie beneath them.

much more...

A lot there but I would imagine the crack reporters for the Fourth Estate could figure it all out...

[EC]

6. Why not ask THEM?

E-mail Olbermman or Tweety...

[SpiralHawk]

7. "Move along. Nothing to see here." - Corporate Media (R)

As usual.

[TomCADem]

10. One Of The Better Examples Of Censoring Stories That Don't Fit The Narrative...

...With Rand Paul, the narrative was grassroots upstart challenges establishment candidate, so the media ignored stories and Kentucky editorial talking about his extremist views on civil rights. With sharon Angle, you have the media actively ignoring her opposing to social security, support for a nuclear waste dump in Yucca mountain, etc., because it is inconsistent with the media narrative of grassroots (astroturf) candidate Sharon Angle challenging Senate Majority leader Harry Reid.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, TomCADem.

[one_voice]

9. K & R n/t