Previously undisclosed documents, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, show that the Obama administration foresaw its moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico killing 23,000 jobs, but proceeded with the ban anyway:
[The documents] show the new top regulator or offshore oil exploration, Michael Bromwich, told Interior Secretary Ken Salazar that a six-month deepwater-drilling halt would result in "lost direct employment" affecting approximately 9,450 workers and "lost jobs from indirect and induced effects" affecting about 13,797 more. The July 10 memo cited an analysis by Mr. Bromwich's agency that assumed direct employment on affected rigs would "resume normally once the rigs resume operations..."more »









