Larger impact to Louisiana economy

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The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday a suspension of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic until 2011 as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, an Alaska senator said.

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This comes amid deepening frustration and criticism of the administration’s handling of the crisis. Mr. Obama’s order is intended to halt further permits for new wells for six months, delay planned exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off the coast of Alaska, cancel an August lease sale in the western Gulf and cancel a lease sale off the coast of Virginia, said a White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity before the formal announcement.

The Virginia lease sale had drawn environmental concerns and objections from the Defense Department. The Alaska project will be delayed for six months while a new presidential commission studies how to regulate offshore drilling.

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Do you think they're not going to pay?

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Just seeking some answers in all of this. In my opinion the best way to get to the truth is look for the money. Just trying to gage which industry is more important to the state from an monitary standpoint.

We can accept losing neither as we need BOTH.

i would suspect that the # of commercial fisherman and trawlers << the oilfield related personnel.

it's not just people offshore -- it's the people working in the shops, the machine shops that supply individual service companies, the truckers that haul stuff to the docks, guys working on the boats, guys working the docks, and service hands.

the people that will be hurt by this are not BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon -- it will be those guys. who while they may not get laid off, their hours / checks will likely be cut.

I don't know that there's any real way to quantify it, but it certainly is an interesting question.

As has been said, the oil industry supports a lot of ancillary jobs. Posts before this one mention many of these positions.

The seafood industry does as well, though. You're not just talking about the people going out in the boats to get the shrimp, oysters, crabs, etc. You're talking about the marinas they run out of and the people who work there (and deliver supplies to there), the people who transport the seafood to the markets, the people who work in the markets, the restaurants who buy the seafood and all the people who work in that area. There's the recreational fishing side of things, too. The people who sell and service boats, trailers, motors, parts, the rods, reels, nets, and other equipment, the marinas where those boats launch from, the camps that are constructed and outfitted, and on down that chain.