Posted on 03/15/2016 8:15:13 AM PDT by SJackson
This decision reverses a previous proposal from the Obama administration
(WASHINGTON)— In a major reversal, the Obama administration says it will not allow oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter, declaring that the administration’s next five-year offshore drilling plan “protects the Atlantic for future generations.”
The announcement reverses a proposal made last year in which the administration floated a plan that would have opened up a broad swath of the Atlantic Coast to drilling. The January 2015 proposal would have opened up sites more than 50 miles off Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia to oil drilling no earlier than 2021.
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310 days.
Frack!
We’ll save those Atlantic oil reserves for the future, when we’ve exhausted all our fracking options (which should be about 300 years from now).
nonsensical result of fracking success
at present there is no need to drill in the Atlantic so Obama gets a Freebie
the action will be a foot note on the biography of the future president that reverses the action to loud public acclaim
Shocked, shocked I tell you.
There’s nothing “stunning” about it.
The Obama Administration controls the entire Atlantic Ocean?
Oohhh Weee.
He’s lame duck and stopping things beyond his control till 2021?
LMAO
MY I look sooo forward to seeing some of the Fed alphabet soup labeled agencies absolutely gutted and closed.
That’s what you get, Mark Warner, (and other Dems who wanted off-shore drilling) for backing Obama. Nothing that you want in return. Nothing.
Really. That oil's not going anywhere.
I suspect the same result with coal. Future generations will obtain reliable power by mining the coal that our current idiot in the White House required be left in the ground, while future historians will add a chapter to Mackay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” describing our current delusional decarbonization craze.
Meawhile, a few rusting wind generation towers will be preserved as relics to lunacy, their blades fixed in place so eagles can once again safely soar above America.
Not only is there no need to explore the Atlantic at this point, if the FedGov held a lease auction today for tracts off the Eastern Seaboard, there would be an embarrassing lack of interest, given the prevailing low commodity price environment. So Barry the Boob gets two freebies...the second one being able to avoid having an offshore lease auction where nobody shows up to bid.
Frack him:-)
Did Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina want oil drilling off their coasts?
Normally I would care about this, but we’re already swimming in a glut of oil, so I’m kind of “meh” about it. He will be gone when high prices and low availability become issues again, and hopefully we will have someone in office who is better at handling our energy needs.
I’m more concerned with what tricks he will pull to get a SCOTUS nomination through.
There’s opposition to drilling everywhere, as well as proponents. I believe there was specific interest in Virginia. And the Governor of North Carolina wanted drilling closer to shore that the feds would allow. That’s moot now. Within a certain distance it should be up to the states. Banning drilling takes it out of the hands of both the states and the markets.
IMHO, he is morphing into Caligula. He will soon proclaim himself a god..
This is in the Atlantic National Oil Life Refuge.
The current Democrat Lt. Gov of Virginia is running for Gov to succeed Barack’s lackie. He was interviewed on WMAL this morning and he is against off shore drilling. He said that it will pollute the beaches and force the US Navy to leave Norfolk naval base because the Navy can’t operate with the oil wells off shore.
After seven years we know the drill: if it’s good for American, he’s against it. If it’s bad, he’s 100% for it.
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