What you are saying is we would have a failure. Would people fail to get their checks?
to dedicate a portion of the offshore oil and gas revenues
not every child gets to the Grand Canyon and not every child can get to Yosemite Park or to ski the beautiful slopes in Colorado
Now, I may interrupt, because I gathered that. And you are not from Louisiana, and I think we have the most productive fisheries in the lowe...
Then I will say that, because there is also a presumption that offshore oil and gas exploration hurts coral reefs.
It almost seems like there is a prejudice against this process that is not based upon science.
Instead of saying boroughs, you should have said parishes. I would have understood that completely. Let us talk English here.
if you look at the NOAA reports, the Flower Garden Coral Reefs in the Mississippi/Texas area are actually fairly healthy.
We can't prove a negative. We can't prove that there is going to be no 30-year effect of having a spill someplace, correct?
But I think what we have learned is, from the testimony, that there is more damage from tankers than there is from offshore drilling.
the problem isn't the rig activity, it is the absence or presence of policing.
If that building burnt down today, if the NCC failed, what are the chances of you recovering the information that would be destroyed?
So we don't have anybody that is not pulling their weight right now?
I just cannot tell you how upsetting it is to homeowners who were literally washed out of their homes...
Would you outline for me... the significant differences in design or licensing requirements between the United States and other countries?
I hope that now President Obama can find a middle road between the kind of Government-private sector planning.
I hear the NRC has revamped its process for licensing new power plants. It is not progressing as well as some of us would like.
Nuclear meets all of those objectives and must be pushed forward with great haste.