Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms

boombaard writes "The day before yesterday CNN's Anderson Cooper reported that, from now on, there is a new rule in effect, which de facto bars photographers from coming within 65 feet of any deployed boom or response vessel around Deepwater Horizon (official announcement). The rule, announced by the US Coast Guard, forbids 'photographers and reporters and anyone else from coming within 65 feet of any response vessel or booms out on the water or on beaches. In order to get closer, you have to get direct permission from the Coast Guard captain of the Port of New Orleans,' while 'violators could face a fine of $40,000 and Class D felony charges. What's even more extraordinary is that the Coast Guard tried to make the exclusion zone 300 feet, before scaling it back to 65 feet.'" Read below for the Coast Guard's statement on the new rule. "The Coast Guard Captain of the Port of New Orleans has delegated authority to the Coast Guard Incident Commander in Houma to allow access to the safety zones placed around all Deepwater Horizon booming operations in Southeast Louisiana. The Coast Guard Incident Commander will ensure the safety of the members and equipment of the response before access is granted. The safety zone has been put in place to prevent vandalism to boom and to protect the members and equipment of the response effort by limiting access to, and through, deployed protective boom."

Comments

Re:So?

[MachDelta]

It's pretty unlikely, given that not a single foot of the gulf is actually fucking boomed fucking properly. See, actual fucking booming requires that the fucking booming be in the fucking water, deployed in a piece-of-shit-cunt zig-zag fashion with the goddamn high points leading to fucking collection equipment. It also requires nearly round-the-clock fucking hand maintenance to deal with goddamn changing tides, fucking wind, fucking waves, fucking etc. Laying down a fucking straight line of fucking boom in the water, then fucking leaving it to sit does fuck-all to fucking contain oil, and less than fuck-all when it fucking gets fucking wadded up on the fucking beach a fucking couple hours later.

FTFY.

Re:take a look around fark's politics section

[Capsaicin]

Daily Kos is not a "news outlet". It's a partisan blog.

Well it started out that way, but clearly it has risen in stature to the point where it can now be compared to FoxNews in terms of reliability and integrity!

Re:take a look around fark's politics section

[Shimbo]

That's very difficult to imagine - even Cthulhu has some principles.

Yeah, he's opposed to deep water drilling, for a start.