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Richard wolfe, msnbc, and author of ren gait. thanks. let s turn now to rick steiner, who joins us again from anchorage. rick, good evening. hi, keith. how are you? more discouraged than usual on this. this new, untested drilling method, frequent gas kicks, puts extra pressure on pipes, extra pressure on well casings. does that sound like a kind of drilling that s already happening all over the world? well, yeah. the extended reach drilling has gone on in various places throughout the world. there s no question about that. but just because there hasn t been a catastrophic blowout from one of these ultra extended reachwells doesn t mean that one cannot occur. i mean, look back three or four months on the deepwater horizon, and all the deep water drilling in the gulf of mexico, and until then until deepwater horizon ....
Reachwells doesn t mean that one cannot occur. i mean, look back three or four months on the deepwater horizon, and all the deep water drilling in the gulf of mexico, and until then until deepwater horizon blew up, they had a pretty good safety record out there. until they didn t. the same thing with 8,700 tanker trips out of prince william sound, fully loaded with oil. everything went fine, until the one that didn t. the same thing can happen with extended reach drilling. and i think it certainly violates the intent, if not the letter, of the moratorium that was placed on offshore drilling in the arctic, and in the deep gulf, as well. as in the gulf mns has allowed bp to write its own environmental report in alaska. certainly that part of this can be overturned, can t it? or is the whole thing because it s been handed to bp and the right to do this, is this out of governmental control at this point? well, what s that old adage, ....