“The only thing that’s hard in this conversation for me is jobs,” he said. “It’s really hard to argue in this economy that people don’t need their jobs.”
But in an era when people don’t trust oil companies or their regulators, and when there has been a huge accident such as the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the federal government must ensure that scientific research is done right, Danson said. Oceana advocates a five-year pause.
“Our suggestion is to stop this draft, do the real science, the base science, and it would take maybe four or five years to do that, $20 million per year, would be well worth that effort.”
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