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Tom Williams | Roll Call | Getty Images Congressman Boustany (R-La.) is spearheading a bipartisan effort asking Obama to lift the six-month ban on shallow water drilling. |
] oil spill in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, said a Louisiana congressman. “I don’t think you just take a knee-jerk approach to shutting everything down,” Congressman Charles Boustany (R-La.) told CNBC. “There’s a responsible way to do this.” (Watch the interview here.)
Boustany is spearheading a bipartisan effort asking Obama to allow shallow-water drilling saying that it is safer than deep-water drilling, which is also subject to the moratorium.
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Shallow water drilling "is a technologically mature industry with a great safety record for the past 40 years,” he said.
On Thursday, Obama announced additional restrictions on oil drilling, including a continuaton of the six-month moratorium on drilling permits and the suspension of exploratory drilling off the coasts of Alaska and Virginia.
Boustany said the ban will have a big economic impact in his state, which is driven by the oil and fishing industries.
"Clearly its having a detrimental impact," Boustany said about the oil spill, which is the largest ever in the United States.
“We will lose valuable energy production. The Gulf of Mexico provides a significant amount of oil and gas to United States,” he said. “I agree, we need to be deliberative, but we shouldn’t be knee-jerk with this.”
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