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US Ready to Announce New Drilling Moratorium
Reuters via Moneynews ^ | 7/9/2010 | Reuters

Posted on 07/10/2010 12:14:03 PM PDT by Qbert

The Obama administration said on Friday it is essential that its ban on deepwater oil drilling be restored after a court struck it down and promised a revised moratorium would be announced soon.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters in California he will make an announcement on a new ban on deepwater drilling in the "next several days."

His comments came a day after a federal court refused to reinstate the six-month ban on deepwater drilling below 500 feet, which the Obama administration imposed after BP Plc's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 against the administration's request to stay a lower court decision lifting the ban, saying the government failed to show how it would be irreparably harmed if it were not granted.

The administration said it did not consider the ban a major setback for the policy because it lets the Interior Department apply to stop a project if an operator attempts to start deepwater drilling in the Gulf.

(Excerpt) Read more at moneynews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chavezaboveusa; dictator; obama4chavez; obama4petrobras; obama4soros; oilspill; petrobrasaboveusa; sorosaboveusa
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...Sore Loserman returns.
1 posted on 07/10/2010 12:14:04 PM PDT by Qbert
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They sure do know how to kill jobs...


2 posted on 07/10/2010 12:16:37 PM PDT by avacado
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The Obama administration said on Friday it is essential that its ban on deepwater oil drilling be restored...

...to continue its plan to thoroughly destroy America

3 posted on 07/10/2010 12:17:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Qbert

So what if the Supreme Court rejects the drilling ban, will the regime do it anyway?


4 posted on 07/10/2010 12:21:10 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Qbert

the rigs are already leaving

even the shallow well rigs are going to leave

the USA has become an oligarchy, our courts have no power to enforce laws if the oligarchs choose not to obey them


5 posted on 07/10/2010 12:21:21 PM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’m convinced. Obama is insane!


6 posted on 07/10/2010 12:21:32 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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Suprme Court? obama don’t need no steenkin’ court, bunch of old white dudes relying on an outdated document written by a bunch of old rich white slave-owning dudes


7 posted on 07/10/2010 12:23:13 PM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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Not only is Obama insane, I now believe that the rig was sabotaged by the same people responsible for 9-11.

Then Obama's actions make sense.

8 posted on 07/10/2010 12:23:49 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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“the rigs are already leaving”

Yep, the exodus begins:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2550156/posts


9 posted on 07/10/2010 12:24:55 PM PDT by Qbert
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More idiocy from Ken “padlock” Salazar and the Kenyan.


10 posted on 07/10/2010 12:25:18 PM PDT by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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To: Sacajaweau

Obama is fundamentally beholden to Soros, and Soros is heavily invested in Brazilian oil. I think Obama is doing Soros’ bidding because he has no choice. Soros has long wanted to destroy America, and saw Obama as the perfect medium, imho.


11 posted on 07/10/2010 12:25:45 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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the USA has become an oligarchy, our courts have no power to enforce laws if the oligarchs choose not to obey them

The courts may not, but see tag line.

12 posted on 07/10/2010 12:26:53 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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“They sure do know how to kill jobs...”

Those are White Boy jobs -— them drilling jobs!

Hussein's Brothers got plenty of jobs -— $timulus funds to SEIU and Community Organizers!

13 posted on 07/10/2010 12:29:41 PM PDT by TRY ONE (Another Beer Summit.....another day in Debt)
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I now believe that the rig was sabotaged by the same people responsible for 9-11.

Remember, tin-foil is worn shiny side out.

14 posted on 07/10/2010 12:30:03 PM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98 Class of '98...PROCESS MATTERS)
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Remember, tin-foil is worn shiny side out. Good to know!
15 posted on 07/10/2010 12:36:35 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: Qbert

I predicted this bunch would never obey the court’s decision. They think they are above the law. Reconciliation, the Slaughter Rule, “deeming,”, etc. They don’t even break a sweat stealing elections. Destroying the entire Gulf oil industry, well that might take ‘em a while, but they’ll git ‘er done.


16 posted on 07/10/2010 12:36:53 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Fantasywriter

I wonder what kind of security Soros keeps.


17 posted on 07/10/2010 12:36:53 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: Qbert

JUst wondering how the court that ruled against the first one will view this?


18 posted on 07/10/2010 12:41:06 PM PDT by Always Independent
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To: A_Tradition_Continues

And don’t forget the grounding wire strap. Otherwise, those govenment mind reading waveforms will cause a buildup of static electricity. That charge will seek ground next time you go to the john. That will create quite a mess.


19 posted on 07/10/2010 12:41:06 PM PDT by DugwayDuke
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To: Michael Barnes

He did get hit in the face with a pie once. That would have punctured a normal person’s messianic fantasies...except that normal people don’t have messianic fantasies in the first place.

Soros is 81 yo, and has spent his life, from at least the age of 14, hating, hurting other people, and feeding his megolomaniacal ego. I don’t understand why his body doesn’t just give out under the strain of all that negativity and evil.


20 posted on 07/10/2010 12:44:09 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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