There are a few sensational paragraphs of copy in the decision of U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman’s order today lifting the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tony Hayward, the man deposed last week as the public face of the BP oil spill, is — it turns out — still the public face of the BP oil spill. On his first day off since the April explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, Hayward went to the yacht races yesterday.
If the grotesque images of helpless birds looking like so many chocolate Easter bunnies isn’t enough to scream ‘disaster’ in the Gulf of Mexico, maybe this is: The BP oil disaster is reminding me of a Steven Seagal movie.