permits were stopped. plans were stopped. exploration plans. development plans. new well permits. work over permits. pipeline permits. all stopped. reporter: charlie crist called for a special legislative session this month and he wants lawmakers to put a constitutional amendment on the november ballot to ban offshore drilling in florida waters forever. i know i m on board. and i believe the people of florida are on board, too, whitney. the rightness of this is so clear, especially dealing with what we have experienced in the past 80 days or so in the gulf of mexico. governor krist is running as an independent this november. he s been ahead in follows versus republican challenger marco rubio. if this does make the ballot,
all forward looking permits were stopped. plans were stopped, exploration plans, development plans, new well permits, workover permits, pipeline permits. it was all stopped. reporter: that rig we were just on, one of four owned by spartan offshore have been idled. the doi tells me today while the moratorium stopped operations at 33-degree water rigs, production operations continue on 46 rigs in deeper than 1,000 feet water. shepard: more tarballs in the region i m reading. unbelievable for the residents of new orleans. we thought they were far enough removed but on the it doorstep, 100 new pounds pounds of
arguments fortunate arguments. meanwhile out in the gulf of mexico, it s the new safety concerns that have slowed oil operations. off the coast of louisiana, sits the spartan 151, off-shore rig used to dig new wells and finish work on others. then listen for where the fire is at. on board, the disaster drill comes first. but aside from that ringing bell for our ears, this rig has been pretty quiet the past month. as you can see right now, it s dead silence, there s nothing going on out here. this rig here is a shallow drilling rig. in fact, the water depth below us here just 40 feet. the government s moratorium applied for the civic legion s deepwater exploration. that idled 33 operations. it s new requirements applied to all shallow water operations. while those have been digested over the past month, 18 workers were laid off here and this rig has had no job to do. new well permits, work over