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Obama admin blocks seismic surveys in Atlantic Ocean [for natural gas drilling]
Associated Press ^ | Jan 6, 2017 11:58 AM EST | Matthew Daly

Posted on 01/06/2017 9:21:45 AM PST by Olog-hai

The Obama administration is denying permits for energy companies to conduct seismic surveys in the Atlantic Ocean to map potential drilling sites for oil and natural gas.

The Interior Department said it denied six pending applications in part because Obama has blocked Atlantic drilling under a five-year offshore drilling plan finalized late last year.

Environmental groups and some East Coast lawmakers oppose the surveys, saying that loud sounds from seismic air guns could hurt marine life. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drillbabydrill; naturalgas; necessarilyskyrocket; obama; palinwasright; seismicsurvey

1 posted on 01/06/2017 9:21:45 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Just saying.

https://www.tickcounter.com/countdown/1484931600000/us-eastern/ydhms/FFFFFF3B5998000000FF0000/Obama_Leaves_Office_in

13 days now.


2 posted on 01/06/2017 9:23:23 AM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Olog-hai

I wish Trump would hire me as a government bounty hunter searching out liberal, Democrat, zealot oppression in government. Give me a license to go anywhere and ask (DEMAND) any answer and I’d get these effers out into the light for virtual extermination.


3 posted on 01/06/2017 9:24:17 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Wear bacon scented cologne, see who gets upset.


4 posted on 01/06/2017 9:26:51 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (MAGA)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

:0) Big 10-4


5 posted on 01/06/2017 9:27:33 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder if it occurs to obama, that President Trump will cancel this.


6 posted on 01/06/2017 9:29:17 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: cba123
13 days now.

The sniviling brat is building up to the Grand Finale.


7 posted on 01/06/2017 9:29:46 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: castlegreyskull

Trumps making a list.
Checking it twice...


8 posted on 01/06/2017 9:32:17 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Olog-hai

The obama-dem leftist scorched earth policy continues unabated.


9 posted on 01/06/2017 9:37:52 AM PST by factoryrat (We reserve the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Olog-hai
Save the Whales!!


10 posted on 01/06/2017 9:38:27 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Iron Munro

The sniviling brat is building up to the Grand Finale.


I agree. He’s almost certainly got a big one up his sleeve. It appears to be his MO.


11 posted on 01/06/2017 9:42:24 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: cba123

Thirteen days is forever...like being a kid and waiting two weeks for Christmas.


12 posted on 01/06/2017 9:45:49 AM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare Motto: "If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You'll Like Your New Doctor" - Dave Barry)
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To: Olog-hai

I recall that in the late 1970’s/early 1980’s the “Seven Sisters” had a big exploration program to see if any oil or gas was present of the mid-atlantic coast of the USA.

After the testing was complete the story just died.

A friend from high school had gone to work for EXXON after college, I ran into him 10 years later at a high school reunion. When I asked if they found anything, he smiled and said “yes, more than the known reserves in the Middle East”, that was in 1983.

Imagine what they can find with the technology advancements since then?

Jug Ears confirms it by deigning access. I guess the Saudi’s check cleared...


13 posted on 01/06/2017 9:49:10 AM PST by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: cba123
13 days now.

Yep - to quote Dylan, "The times are a changing..."

14 posted on 01/06/2017 9:53:16 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Olog-hai
"The Obama administration is denying permits for energy companies...."

The Obama administration is denying, temporarily, permits for energy companies...

15 posted on 01/06/2017 10:10:20 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Olog-hai

13 days until these lefty lunatics are stopped in their idiocy and hatred of America...13 days.


16 posted on 01/06/2017 10:11:19 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Olog-hai

13 days until these lefty lunatics are stopped in their idiocy and hatred of America...13 days.


17 posted on 01/06/2017 10:11:19 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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