Proposal to drill off Virginia coast put forth by Interior Dept.

By: presidentialman
Published On: 4/28/2007 12:05:38 AM

I just came back from dinner and really am kind of tired but I saw this

U.S. Proposal Would Allow Oil Drilling Off Virginia
Five-Year Plan Would Also Open Alaskan, Gulf Waters

By Steven Mufson and David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, April 28, 2007; Page A01

The Interior Department will announce a proposal Monday to allow oil and gas drilling in federal waters near Virginia that are currently off-limits and permit new exploration in Alaska's Bristol Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, according to people who have seen or been told about drafts of the plan.

The department issued a news release yesterday that was lacking details but said that it had finished a five-year plan that will include a "major proposal for expanded oil and natural gas development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf." Department officials declined to describe the plan.

Congress would still have to agree to open areas currently off-limits before any drilling could take place off Virginia's coast. Every year since 1982, after an oil spill off Santa Barbara, Calif., Congress has reaffirmed a moratorium on drilling off the nation's Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Last year, after a vigorous push by drilling advocates, Congress opened new waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Interior Department might still go ahead with environmental and geological seismic studies off Virginia, but the plan does not envision drilling there before 2011, according to a congressional source who saw an earlier version of the proposal. The sources who described the plan spoke on the condition of anonymity because they didn't want to compromise relationships with people who showed them drafts.


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Comments



If you're going to provide extensive block quotes (Lowell - 4/28/2007 5:48:52 AM)
You need to provide a linked source.  If not, it's violating fair use and will have to be deleted from RK.  Also, please add your own commentary, not just "I saw this."  That's not really a diary.  Thanks.


Huh? (presidentialman - 4/28/2007 1:38:13 PM)
I have a website address, that's right beneath. Who are you to define a diary?  I don't want to accuse you of anything, just show it as an example, but I am not as partisan as you, I'm more of a compromiser. So I don't have all this bottled up energy I can dedicate to each diary.  Also I'm not a muckraker. I'm not saying muckrakers are bad, I just don't endlessly dig up stuff. Its my belief that websites like raisingkaine, are dedicated to partisan muckrakers.

Also, it seems somewhat plageristic on your part, where I clearly give the website and the blockquotes, then you come around, tell me how to write a diary and then write a diary of your own based on materials I had already posted, this time with your commentary to spruce things up a bit.  I'm not a big believer in Christianity but I beleive there's a passage in the Bible that says "he who is without sin cast the first stone."

Also on top of what is and what is not a diary and stuff like that,I posted one diary. That's one diary. On a daily basis you post six.  Now I think a person does not need to muckrake all the time and when its only that person doing the muckraking, it sucks all the air out of the site. It tells other people that raisingkaine's only Lowell's site and everyone else is but a guest.  That gives of arrogance and rudeness which turns into a vicous cycle of so few postings. As I understand it, raisingkaine is for all of us nettravelers.
 



Calm. (PM - 4/28/2007 1:52:33 PM)
Lowell has, rightly so, made the same criticism of me in the past.  Fair use law dictates that one be editorializing on a subject when borrowing material. So just chat it up a bit, give it some context, state a view.

Wikipedia has a decent description of fair use law.  http://en.wikipedia....

And, we'd like to hear from a variety of sources.

I wish more people would write diaries.

Here's what an old judge once said:  "[A] reviewer may fairly cite largely from the original work, if his design be really and truly to use the passages for the purposes of fair and reasonable criticism." 

Or, from Wikipedia -- "To justify the use as fair, one must demonstrate how it either advances knowledge or the progress of the arts through the addition of something new. A key consideration is the extent to which the use is interpreted as transformative, as opposed to merely derivative."



From the Daily Kos (Lowell - 4/28/2007 5:53:36 PM)
FAQ's about diaries:

*"Diaries should be substantive. A good guideline is that if you don't have at least three solid paragraphs to write about your subject, you should probably post a comment in an open thread, or in a recent diary or front-page post that covers a topic relevant to what you wish to write about."

*"Copying and pasting complete copyrighted articles without permission from the copyright holder is absolutely prohibited by both this site's policies and copyright laws. Copyright infringement can expose both you and the site's owners to financial liability. Just don't do it. And if you see someone else doing it, please politely ask them to edit their diary accordingly. This is a bannable offense."

*"Limited copying within the bounds of the doctrine of "fair use" is permitted. A reasonable rule-of-thumb is that copying three paragraphs from a normal-length news article or editorial is acceptable. (This, however, is not a safe-harbor. If even three paragraphs seems like "too much," then copy less or nothing at all.) For more on fair use, please visit this site."



What about Raising Kaine's views? (presidentialman - 4/29/2007 12:55:25 AM)
I'm glad you've posted what DailyKos thinks, however I do not hold Markos as God and I'm not posting on Daily Kos. I'm posting on Raising Kaine.  Its great that DailyKos thinks the way it does but their thoughts should be reserved for their members. Our thoughts on diaries should be reserved for our members.

As my screen name suggests, I love the presidents and I hold presidential historians in Godlike terms, there's Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCoullough, the late Arthur Schleshsinger and Stephen Ambrose.  Recently, I have had to revise my thoughts on them due to rumors of plagerism, and have learned what my own thoughts sound like.  Where am I going with this? Its my way of saying while I disagree with you, yes I appreciate your fascination with every word from Markos and Dailykos, because I have been at a similair place. 

My take on editorializing with a diary, I love politics, I could tell you the history of the institutions, I consider myself up on events, and then I read a raising kaine editorial and I find I don't know jack shit.  I did take a class during the Warner administration on state and local politics and we focused on the Virginia budget crisis. I do know Kaine whipped Kilgore and that's about it. I'm more of a DC pundit. And my personality is mellow. So my diaries when I do do them will be different.

I'm glad a third party arrived.



Those rules are pretty standard across the blogosphere. (Lowell - 4/29/2007 6:31:45 AM)
The reason I posted them is just to let you know, this  has nothing to do with what we thing about Daily Kos, Markos, or anyone else.  Mostly, it's a legal issue regarding "fair use."  It's also about the concept that a diary should add original content, not just cut and paste from articles without any of the author's thoughts on the subject. That's what we all believe at Raising Kaine, and again, that's the widely-observed standard in the political blogosphere.


Question on the standards (tx2vadem - 4/29/2007 9:29:09 PM)
Were you violating these rules when you posted Lambert Uses Sallie Mae Money to Finance Campaign?


That was a press release from the campaign. (Lowell - 5/7/2007 8:56:50 AM)
Not the same thing as a newspaper article, and also important to get out more widely.  With newspaper articles, all you have to do is link.


So I guess I need to modify the standards (Lowell - 5/7/2007 8:58:29 AM)
and say that it's PREFERABLE to add content, but there are exceptions to that rule like press releases that only went to a limited number of people and deserve wider distribution.  Still, all else being equal, we should ALL try to include as much of our own analysis and "added value" as possible.


Maybe (Kathy Gerber - 4/29/2007 7:55:32 AM)
these links are helpful. Lowell explained the fair use, and newspapers and other corporations can detect unauthorized use by employing text mining software like CopyGuard -
LexisNexis U.S has announced the launch of LexisNexis(R) CopyGuard solution, to help detect plagiarism and copyright infringement and protect intellectual property. CopyGuard was co-developed with iParadigms, a developer of new technologies for intellectual property theft detection and for vetting intellectual property originality.

The application of this technology has been growing exponentially over the last couple of years -

Other plagiarism-detection providers, including Glatt Plagiarism Services, MyDropBox LLC, and CFL Software Development also report growing business outside the educational sector.

This software started out in the academic community to detect plagiarism, and the companies store massive quantities of web data - one advert claims 25 terabytes for Turnitin.

The balance of fair use and copyright is a related topic as in the Diebold incident.