It includes responsible drilling in the deepwater areas that, even in the wake of the deep -- of the Gulf spill -- I think as I mentioned the other day, we have issued our first permit several weeks ago since the Gulf spill for deepwater drilling, then just several days ago issued the second permit.
In a prior article, I spoke about the spill and how citizens were concerned about it.
Just last week, I had watched the slow, quiet spill of daybreak over the soft, fir-topped spine of the Pioneers.
That being said, we have been anticipating and planning, and today I will be designating that this is a spill of national significance.
But I will not back down from making sure an oil company can contain the kind of oil spill we saw in the Gulf two years ago. (Applause.) I will not back down from protecting our kids from mercury poisoning, or making sure that our food is safe and our water is clean.
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O'Brien was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its BP oil spill and Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the Southeast Asia tsunami.
I'll close by saying this: This oil spill is an unprecedented disaster.
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In the past two years I've written blog after blog warning that the crisis would spill out of control.
Eventually I went to Metro Bicycles for cycling leggings that would both avoid a spill due to loose pants cuffs and provide saddle padding.
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If the laws on our books are inadequate to prevent such a spill, or if we did not enforce those laws, then I want to know.
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Layton and I used to climb Bald Man's Gap, the exact apex of the divide he taking care not to spill the glass of water clutched in between his hands, while I minded a rudimentary pinhole camera that I had fashioned from a shoe box.
"I think our focus right now is, one, the area, the spill, and two, also to ultimately determine the cause of it and see the impact that that ultimately may or may not have, " he said, noting that Obama's announcement was the beginning, and not the end, of a longer process.
That is why, on Friday, I signed an executive order establishing the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
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Before I make a statement on the economy, I just want to offer an update on the ongoing federal response to the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Right now, stopping this oil spill and containing its damage is necessarily the top priority not just of my administration but I think of the entire country.
Mr. MEAD TREADWELL (Former Spill Response Coordinator, Department of Environmental Conservation): We thought, or at least I thought, as one of the decision-makers that nature was going to take care of the issue.
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