text: The oil companies are dropping and canceling leases in the Arctic offshore areas and Lisa comes up with this.  What a crock.  Grow some spine lady.  There is no sensible company that is going to explore the hardest, toughest physical environment on the planet that has a concurrent set of protections for it when there are far easier and reliable prospects on shore.  It simply doesn't pass the laugh test.  And add me to the "Minority" that opposes Arctic offshore drilling at all.  On shore accidents are nasty enough and it is still not a slam dunk to contain them.  Offshore cleanup or containment would be a nightmare.  Macondo showed what a drawn out mess can happen and they had everything in their favor.