{"id":3911,"date":"2010-04-28T11:22:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2010-04-28T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:22:05","slug":"the-risks-of-drilling-off-virginias-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/04\/28\/the-risks-of-drilling-off-virginias-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Risks of Drilling Off Virginia&#8217;s Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waldo Jaquith has a good piece <a href=\"http:\/\/waldo.jaquith.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/drilling-risk\/\">illustrating the risks<\/a> that Virginia is undertaking by pursuing off-shore oil drilling. \u00c2\u00a0Like me, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s anti-drilling in general. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s just that it doesn&#8217;t make any sense for Virginia when you compare the risks &#8211; oil spills, threat to tourism, etc. &#8211; \u00c2\u00a0against the relatively small benefits of the oil royalties (which aren&#8217;t even assured, remember). \u00c2\u00a0 Virginia&#8217;s off-shore drilling is primarily a political slogan, and not a choice born of a policy-driven debate. \u00c2\u00a0That should be remembered in the face of the risk of the very real costs it could impose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waldo Jaquith has a good piece illustrating the risks that Virginia is undertaking by pursuing off-shore oil drilling. \u00c2\u00a0Like me, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s anti-drilling in general. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s just that it doesn&#8217;t make any sense for Virginia when you compare the risks &#8211; oil spills, threat to tourism, etc. &#8211; \u00c2\u00a0against the relatively small benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}