Letter: Blame environmentalists for spill
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was bound to happen. The drilling is in 5,000 feet of water. The question arises – who or what is to blame?
The answer is logically apparent to any fair-minded intelligent person: The environmental activists.
If oil drilling on the North American continent was not stopped by the constant political pressure of environmentalists, there would not be the necessity to draw energy from deep waters. The Bakken Slope in our northern tier of states and southern Canada has huge reserves. The Rocky Mountains contain massive oil shale deposits. Alaska has immense reserves.
None of these sources are under water and none of them would ever have the potential of the current Gulf disaster.
But none of these can be tapped to use until “green” energy becomes an economic reality because the environmentalists have managed to force the elimination of these sources from use.
The environmentalists have politicked and gone to court to halt any reasonable attempt to meet the energy needs of the nation, whether it be oil, coal, nuclear or even so-called “green” energy sources.
It is time to put a stop to this insanity. We need energy or our way of life collapses. We all will suffer descent into a third- or fourth-world country.
The environmentalists should be sued in a class-action as endangering our way of life and violating public safety.
Donald Rae
Plumas Lake
