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“The fact that the secretary has to come to Capitol Hill to testify before lawmakers seems to have suddenly focused his attention on the permitting

Nah, must be a coincidence. /sarc

1 posted on 02/28/2011 2:32:07 PM PST by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Boy I was worried for a while, but 1 permit in a year gee they will get this oil economy going soon...BRAVO!


2 posted on 02/28/2011 2:35:05 PM PST by JohnD9207 (John McCain is a proud Ted Kennedy conservative!)
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To: jazusamo

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!


3 posted on 02/28/2011 2:35:12 PM PST by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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To: jazusamo

Nope, now the administration can say without having to cross its fingers that they are proactive in helping us reduce out dependence on foreign oil and ARE permitting new drilling.


4 posted on 02/28/2011 2:35:19 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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““Initial drilling on this well began April 16, 2010, in 6,500 feet water depth, and the activities were suspended June 12, 2010, under the temporary drilling moratorium, issued in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill,” BOEMRE said in a summary of the permit approval.”

So, they are having to permit wells that were already drilling before the moratorium - insane! We need to immediately permit all proposals and get the show on the road.


5 posted on 02/28/2011 2:35:27 PM PST by epithermal
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To: jazusamo
"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, 3 times is enemy action."

Auric Goldfinger

6 posted on 02/28/2011 2:35:49 PM PST by de.rm (Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.)
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To: jazusamo

Must be a Muslim Oil Company


7 posted on 02/28/2011 2:36:01 PM PST by Gaffer
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>>“This permit was issued for one simple reason: the operator successfully demonstrated that it can drill its deepwater well safely and that it is capable of containing a subsea blowout if it were to occur check cleared.

Fixed it.

8 posted on 02/28/2011 2:37:51 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (You CAN get blood from a stone, if you throw it hard enough.)
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“This permit was issued for one simple reason: the operator successfully demonstrated that it can drill its deepwater well safely and that it is capable of containing a subsea blowout if it were to occur. We expect further deepwater permits to be approved in coming weeks and months based on the same process that led to the approval of this permit,” he added.

What damnable hubris! No mention of the Judge's contempt order against the department, no mention of the congressional hearings. And yet will this man lose his job, his pension, his future, his business, his house, his wife and the respect of his children?

Tens of thousands have because of this spokesman and all his co-workers in that tyrannical bureaucracy.

10 posted on 02/28/2011 2:41:09 PM PST by bvw
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How much of a contribution did this cost?


12 posted on 02/28/2011 2:44:59 PM PST by luv2ndamend (Same party, different letter.)
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No drilling will occur while B. Obama is in the White House. The man is moving the US towards a great crisis
which, he hopes, will usher in the Age of Marx.
14 posted on 02/28/2011 2:46:31 PM PST by Hans
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This needs a techie review. I am not sure this announcemnet is all that it appears to be. From the source below, it appears this is a permit to drill a bipass well around the plugs placed in the bore when the moratorium was announced. Does that allow full depth drilling:

http://www.pennenergy.com/index/petroleum/display/0597871916/articles/pennenergy/petroleum/offshore/2011/02/breaking-news__boemre.html


15 posted on 02/28/2011 2:49:29 PM PST by Truth29
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