Dems in the Senate want to raise the limit on damage liability and fines that can be imposed on BP for the Gulf spill (retroactively, of course) from $75 million to $10 billion, and (of course) ban all future drilling in the Gulf of Mexico within two hundred miles of the coast.
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) co-authored the bill, and his comments and opinions were detailed in THIS NY Times article today. All this is expected, I guess... but here's what surprised me:
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has ripped Nelson for his bill. I don't usually quote articles in my posts, but get this...
"I literally never had one senator from these anti-oil and gas states and come to me and offer to help one fisherman after [Hurricanes] Katrina and Rita, when their boats were literally shattered in pieces, their nets were torn up and their homes were destroyed," Landrieu told reporters after a briefing with Obama administration officials. "Now, when it's in their political interest on this environmental thing, they're all concerned about the fishermen. Well, some of us have been concerned about them for a long time."
She's referring to the assistance and contributions made to the LA coastal communities directly effected by the storms from companies such as BP, Exxon-Mobile, and Gulf Oil... totalling more than $11 million over the course of four years. Nice to see there are still a few Dems who understand what the word "perspective" means in times like this.
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