re: Federal Shutdown and O&G

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Interior Department has stopped processing drilling permits and leasing both onshore and offshore.

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But once they come back to work, you can bet they will be working balls to the wall to catch up on the backlog of permits.

I actually kind of feel bad for them. There were some pretty reasonable and experienced permit guys before Macondo, which brought a major shitstorm down on the whole agency as a scapegoat (thanks Obama). Then some of the experienced ones left and the rest take it from both ends (industry and govt).