Craig, it doesn't matter on whose watch another oil catastrophe happens---and happen it will. Humans make mistakes, on the bridge at Valdez and deck of the BP rig in the Gulf. Citizens own what's in and under the Gulf.

Shell says they can get resources there to cap a blow-out within a month! It hasn't provided answers on safety and environmental effects of drilling and exploration i.e. sound blasts in one of world's great masses of krill.

Not good enough. A moratorium is reasonable under these circumstances. As for a win, of course, naturally. We've already done it with a moratorium on the fabled fisheries straddling the US-Canada border in the Gulf of Maine.

People come first. I've spent months on Galveston Bay.