March 21, 2011
Obama: The Trifecta of Bad Timing on Technology Policies
Talk about your bad timing.
The outcome of the LightSquared/GPS controversy threatens to make President Obama a three-time loser in technology policy matters.
In March 2010, his administration proposed to open for drilling for oil and natural gas extensive expanses along the Atlantic coast, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and off the north coast of Alaska, many of those areas for the first time. Less than a month later the Deepwater Horizon oil well explosion unleashed the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.
By Inside GNSS
