Posted on 03/31/2010 10:58:54 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama's new offshore drilling plan opens up some new areas for oil and gas exploration but also cancels some Alaska lease sales planned for the next two years, putting billions of barrels of oil out of reach for now.
The long-awaited plan, announced Wednesday, expands drilling opportunities off the coast of the southern Atlantic seaboard, in the Gulf of Mexico and some parts of Alaska, but halts other future sales in Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort seas that drilling advocates say could account for far more oil than the new areas the president proposes to open up.
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The list, ping
BTTT
There it is.
I knew it was in the small print. He wanted positive press while continuing the destruction of the economy.
Shuck and jive.
You can drill but you can’t sell it!!
Ah ha! I knew it was too good to be true. Thanks for sharing this. The Traitor needs to go and that cronie Salazar too! F*cktards!
Anyone else think that Barry is getting back at Sarah?
That’s what I think.
Barry is into thuggery like that.
IOWs you were wholly unprepared for the job. All of the economic and technical information needed to make a decision existed 14 months ago. All of the experts you could have consulted existed long before that. It took you 14 months to make a half-stepping decision on a no-brainer.
Check it out. We both had his number. It was nothing but a smoke screen.
What a shock. The sleaziest dog did something sleazy.
The Kenyan Thief pandering to the enviros and his Muslim brothers in Saudi Arabia.
A DDS, drilling open new areas in Obummer`s foul mouth, halts, seeing Russia from Alaska. Republican dentist then decides to remove ObummerCaries completely and bills it to Medicare, where it belonged in the first place.
punish Alaska
Note: The following text is a quote:
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-united-states-outer-continental-shelf
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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release March 31, 2010
Presidential Memorandum—United States Outer Continental Shelf
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
SUBJECT: Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition
Under the authority granted to me in section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43 U.S.C. 1341(a), I hereby withdraw from disposition by leasing through June 30, 2017, the Bristol Bay area of the North Aleutian Basin in Alaska. This withdrawal prevents consideration of Bristol Bay for leasing for any oil or gas development in the Outer Continental Shelf, whether for exploratory or production purposes.
Nothing in this withdrawal affects the rights under existing leases in this area.
BARACK OBAMA
Oh yes, I agree this is a slam at Sarah, who has been occupying rent-free space in his brain. Go Sarah!
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