Posted on 09/07/2006 6:06:11 PM PDT by SmithL
Anchorage -- A judge on Thursday temporarily halted lease sales of more than 1 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that environmentalists say are essential feeding and breeding grounds for caribou and migratory birds.
Nearly 13 million acres of the reserve in northern Alaska are available for lease sale or have been sold to oil companies, most notably ConocoPhillips. The company hopes to augment waning crude stocks in the Prudhoe Bay fields east of the NPR-A.
Environmentalists filed the lawsuit in hopes of cordoning off about 600,000 acres of the 23-million acre reserve from more exploratory drilling. The government had planned to open bids on Sept. 27 for about 1.7 million acres, which encompass the area targeted by environmentalists.
ConocoPhillips has its eye on the contested area, which holds a potential 2 billion barrels of oil beneath the permafrost near Lake Teshekpuk.
The order, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, said the state and federal governments had not adequately considered the cumulative environmental effects of the lease sales in the eastern and western sections of the reserve.
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Environmentalists are running this nation into the ground.
Who was the judge and who appointed him?
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I'm SO stinkin tired of thesde kill America at all cost GREEN-WEENIE dirtbags!!!!
How much more do these critters need?
One thing the liberals do really, really well: abuse the justice system.
District Judges should not be permitted to shut down actions of higher constitutional bodies. They should have authority only to forward their concerns to a parallel constitutional body. Only the Supreme Court should have authority to countermand an action of the President or Congress, and that only on Constitutional grounds.
Who needs Muslim terrorists when we have environmentalists and liberal judges to ruin this country.
Here's another news story on this judge:
Censored Gay Pride Exhibit at the Loussac Library in Anchorage, Alaska Reinstalled
July 13, 2001
On July 3, 2001, District Judge James K. Singleton ordered Anchorage, Alaska, to reinstall a gay pride exhibit at Z.J. Loussac Library after ruling that the city's library policy was too vague.
The lawsuit arose after the city removed a gay pride display from Loussac Library on June 5, 2001. The Alaska Civil Liberties Union sued, saying the city violated constitutional free speech protections and breached its contract with the exhibit sponsors. The exhibit was put up at the University of Alaska Anchorage after it was removed from Loussac Library.
According to the Anchorage Daily News District Judge James K. Singleton ruled that while the city has the right to limit certain forms of speech at the library, its guidelines were not explicit enough to prevent administrators' prejudices from potentially playing a role in a decision.
Arguments focused partly on whether the library was a public forum and therefore subject to free speech protections. The city argued that, although the library was made available for exhibitions (and was thus a designated public forum), exhibitions policy prohibited displays that were personal, promotional or could cause a substantial disturbance. The city claimed that the gay pride exhibit was promotional because it promoted the group's cause.
Judge Singleton said that it might be possible to define the terms of a library policy in a way that would draw a distinction between promotion and education, but that "that would be something that would be very hard to do and you could look silly."
Whereas commercial promotion would be a clear case, when we are talking about ideas the line distinguishing expression from promotion is extremely vague, if not impossible to draw. By opening its exhibition space to a variety of groups, the only thing the Loussac library was promoting was the value of a diversity of ideas as well as of the mutual understanding between members of the community. No city should find that kind of promotion objectionable.
I know Bush 41 had to get judges approved by a Rat-controlled Senate, but this has to be one of his worst appointments ever. Souter might be worse.
Guy knows what he likes anyway, but isn't he getting sort of old for that?
Yo, Dog. You can hardly get one worse than Souter.
"No paper trail" Souter. Turncoat.
Common knowledge for 20 years. Nothing new about that.
Lets see, we can't drill in ANWR because that land was set aside for wildlife. Now we can't drill in the National Petroleum Reserve because, ..., because, ...., how did that go again?
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