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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Just saying.
13 days now.
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.
Wear bacon scented cologne, see who gets upset.
:0) Big 10-4
I wonder if it occurs to obama, that President Trump will cancel this.
The sniviling brat is building up to the Grand Finale.
Trumps making a list.
Checking it twice...
The obama-dem leftist scorched earth policy continues unabated.
The sniviling brat is building up to the Grand Finale.
Thirteen days is forever...like being a kid and waiting two weeks for Christmas.
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...
Yep - to quote Dylan, "The times are a changing..."
The Obama administration is denying, temporarily, permits for energy companies...
13 days until these lefty lunatics are stopped in their idiocy and hatred of America...13 days.
13 days until these lefty lunatics are stopped in their idiocy and hatred of America...13 days.
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