Posted on 02/03/2011 7:12:12 AM PST by Bigun
Of that, I am not sure. All I know is that the feds through the MMS (Minerals Management Service, a Interior Department bureacracy) is in charge of leasing, permitting, etc. of all deepwater drilling. If you don’t play by their rules, then you don’t get a permit.
Impeach Obama. He has the final authority over his cabinet appointees. He is trying to enforce orders that have been ruled unconstitutional! Impeach his dictator azz!
The POTUS is the chief executive of the federal government. Isn’t he responsibile for the actions of the executive departments? If so, he is the representative agent in contempt. High crimes and misdemeanors?
Pow!
That to is a possibility it would seem to me. Especially so if Judge Vinson were to do the same thing in the Obamacare case.
OK by you if I hold out for Step 4?
So now what happens? I know this administration will ignore this.
Define "federal(territorial?)" waters. Also see LOST.
Ronald Reagan extended it to 200 nautical miles from shore in 1983. The states own up to three miles out.
Tell me you're just talking through your hat and not intentionally spreading disinformation.
BY THE 1970's, however, more than forty countries had asserted a twelve-mile limit for their territorial waters. In 1988 President ronald reagan issued Executive Proclamation 5928, which officially increased the outer limit of U.S. territorial waters from three to twelve miles (54 Fed. Reg. 777).Read EVERYTHING you can, starting with the link I furnished you on LOST(Law of the Sea Treaty). Amongst other things it would have taken our territorial waters out to 200 miles. It has NEVER been ratified by our senate even though odinga presumably ratified it himself in 2010 -- without benefit of senate ratification. Was that legal or even Constitutional? So, again, define our territorial waters.
I don’t care as I work onshore. Ask someone who works for BP.
But, but, you seemed SOOO sure of yourself. You should care regardless. It would appear the feral government, along with other nefarious behavior, is withholding permits for drilling in INTERNATIONAL waters. IOW, since the senate never ratified the LOST treaty, they are basically extorting compliance in a place they have ZERO jurisdiction. Not unlike what they are doing onshore under the auspices of saving us all from a benign gas we all exhale with every breath we take. Is there really any differnce? Why do the companies doing exploration outside the 12 mile limit pay the extortion required to get permits? Because our navy is nearby? Our government has gone completely rogue on us.
As a result, we will now import more oil from unfriendly countries. This Administration has done nothing for this country but destroy any industry they could not take over.
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