Stephanie
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You see how the Progressives/Democrats cares about jobs, our energy we can get here from our OWN COUNTRY? and not be beholden to the middle east. wasn't that their reason for this Green energy scam they wasted Billions of our tax dollars on? they are beholden to the RADICAL environmentalist. And why do WE the people have a Gawddamn Congress?
VOTE out these Tyrants out of lives come 2016. and NEVER give them control over our lives ever again
SNIP;
As part of the Friday night news dump, the Obama administration did a complete about face on the subject of Arctic oil exploration. After years of supporting research and efforts to keep our options open for future energy development, Interior Department boss Sally Jewell sent out word that extensions or expansion of permits for drilling off of Alaska’s coast would essentially be extinguished. (Seattle Times)
This disingenuous move was beyond the pale, even for the Obama administration. Compounding the error was Jewell’s “explanation” for why this move makes sense. She decided to blame the results of a single exploratory well drilled by Shell.
Anyone who has followed our coverage of the Arctic drilling exploration work engaged in by Royal Dutch Shell already knows the details of the story. The company has a lease for certain sections of seabed where they’ve begun looking for the vast oil reserves which are essentially proven to exist up there. They had already asked for those leases to be extended and for the option of additional leases to come as resources are identified. The lack of significant reserves found at the first Chukchi sea drilling site didn’t mean in any way that the oil isn’t there. The science on this front is difficult since you’re trying to determine what lies below miles of sea water and the Earth’s crust in an area frequently covered in thick ice and wracked with dangerous storms.
For Jewell to turn around now and say that one mostly dry well is a reason to cancel all future leases is laughable. If we give the Polar Pioneer a few more cracks at this it’s going to produce results. But none of this is really about science, is it? As with everything else in the White House, this is all about the politics. The Democrats are once again running on an anti-energy platform going into the 2016 elections and Obama’s previously reasonable stance on exploration was an ongoing embarrassment to them when they were asking their green energy, environmental extremist supporters for campaign donations. They also wouldn’t want to put Hillary in the awkward position of having to slam her former boss on yet another subject as she seeks to replace him.
all of it here:
Interior Department quietly suspends Arctic drilling leases
VOTE out these Tyrants out of lives come 2016. and NEVER give them control over our lives ever again
SNIP;
As part of the Friday night news dump, the Obama administration did a complete about face on the subject of Arctic oil exploration. After years of supporting research and efforts to keep our options open for future energy development, Interior Department boss Sally Jewell sent out word that extensions or expansion of permits for drilling off of Alaska’s coast would essentially be extinguished. (Seattle Times)
This disingenuous move was beyond the pale, even for the Obama administration. Compounding the error was Jewell’s “explanation” for why this move makes sense. She decided to blame the results of a single exploratory well drilled by Shell.
Anyone who has followed our coverage of the Arctic drilling exploration work engaged in by Royal Dutch Shell already knows the details of the story. The company has a lease for certain sections of seabed where they’ve begun looking for the vast oil reserves which are essentially proven to exist up there. They had already asked for those leases to be extended and for the option of additional leases to come as resources are identified. The lack of significant reserves found at the first Chukchi sea drilling site didn’t mean in any way that the oil isn’t there. The science on this front is difficult since you’re trying to determine what lies below miles of sea water and the Earth’s crust in an area frequently covered in thick ice and wracked with dangerous storms.
For Jewell to turn around now and say that one mostly dry well is a reason to cancel all future leases is laughable. If we give the Polar Pioneer a few more cracks at this it’s going to produce results. But none of this is really about science, is it? As with everything else in the White House, this is all about the politics. The Democrats are once again running on an anti-energy platform going into the 2016 elections and Obama’s previously reasonable stance on exploration was an ongoing embarrassment to them when they were asking their green energy, environmental extremist supporters for campaign donations. They also wouldn’t want to put Hillary in the awkward position of having to slam her former boss on yet another subject as she seeks to replace him.
all of it here:
Interior Department quietly suspends Arctic drilling leases
