Alaska Ping
Posted on 04/07/2017 9:33:39 AM PDT by rktman
The Trump administration is developing an order to open new areas to offshore oil and gas drilling, reversing former President Barack Obama’s unilateral decision to lock up most of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, according to industry sources.
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke told industry representatives the new drilling plan would be signed soon, according to Bloomberg. However, he gave few details on what the order could include.
The Department of the Interior’s (DOI) new five-year offshore drilling plan could take years to develop and would replace the Obama administration’s five-year plan finalized in November.
President Donald Trump promised to end Obama-era restrictions on energy production in order to unlock revenue from natural resources and create jobs. DOI raised $275 million in bids in a recent lease auction for the Gulf of Mexico.
Trump is expected to sign the order by the end of April, and it’s sure to draw legal challenges from environmentalists who’ve argued Obama’s indefinite ban on Arctic and Atlantic drilling can’t be overturned.
Obama used Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law governing offshore drilling, in an unprecedented way, blocking leases in the Atlantic Ocean and the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
Obama’s order took 125 million acres in Arctic seas and four million acres in the Atlantic Ocean out of future lease sales indefinitely. Supporters said the former president’s actions “permanently” banned drilling in those regions.
But the drilling ban is only permanent if Congress doesn’t change the law or Trump doesn’t move to test it in court. Past presidents have reduced the size of Section 12(a) designations but never fully repealed them.
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Psssst: Is this maybe some special deal to Rex Tillerson? ;-)
Normal view:
Winning!!!
Drill, baby, drill!!
Gorsuch’s confirmation, and now this is just what I needed today!
Very good news!
I think now that Gorsuch is in, you’re going to see a lot more direct action from President Trump....
“Past presidents have reduced the size of Section 12(a) restrictions, but never eliminated them...”
So, reduce them by 99%, if that’s what the law seems to require, and go to court to eliminate what’s left to make it harder for the next Black and Green (and Red) President to re-install them.
DRILL BABY, DRILL!
I think now that Gorsuch is in, you’re going to see a lot more direct action from President Trump....
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You might very well be correct on this!
Shrink it to zero and then repeal it asap
Unless we get JR’d. As in Justice Roberts’d.
Win!
...now open up the California coast for drilling...
Heads popping :^)
Alaska Ping
Half mile off malibu would be awesome. Then the illegal housekeepers and gardeners could see them. ;-)
How can this be? Isn’t Trump just a tool of the Globalists?
The smudge left by Barry is being rapidly erased in the White House.
I am not sure if it is still producing, but when I worked in Century City (Los Angeles) I could see an oil well on the Beverly Hills High School grounds.
The Democrats choose poorly when they sided with the environazi in shutting down their oil and refineries.
The money from these wells would have made a nice down payment on their Utopian Vision for the state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Oil_Field
Sale of just half of the oil recently discovered in America (all new, previously undiscovered reserves totaling more than twice the oil in the Middle East) would generate over $50-Trillion dollars. That can be achieved in the next eight years, and I'm betting it will.
(Liberal heads exploding - again)
This will displace the Syria and Gorsch from the front burners.
Leftys are having trouble keeping up with all their outrages.
MORE!! MORE!!
I am not tired of winning just yet.
Does that mean getting rid of that new Marine Park off New England? Drill baby Drill...
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