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Interior Dept. challenges drilling permit ruling, warns of delayed development
The Hill ^ | 3/05/11 | Ben Geman

Posted on 03/06/2011 7:26:03 AM PST by epithermal

The Obama administration delivered a warning late Friday to a federal judge who’s demanding Interior Department action on deepwater drilling permit applications: Be careful what you wish for.

The Interior Department challenged a Louisiana judge’s orders that require decisions on several industry applications later this month, warning that the court's mandate could force Interior to “deny the applications outright” and divert resources from review of other permit requests.

Interior appealed the orders late Friday and asked for a stay.

In their filing, Justice Department lawyers say that Judge Martin Feldman’s orders could thwart the “efficient development of oil and gas resources on the Outer Continental Shelf, as well as potentially harm the near-term interests of the operators who submitted the subject applications.”

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: drilling; energy; gulf; oil
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To: epithermal
JUST DRILL. All the oil companies should JUST DRILL.

What are they going to do if the Companies, JUST DRILL, send in the Nat'L guard with RUBBER BULLETS/bean bags?

Add to that: Any Democrat Senator can leave their state and fail in their constitutional oath of office, NOTHING IS DONE. It is way past time being nice and playing by the rules set to ruin this Nation.

Message to Oil companies: JUST DRILL ANYWAY

41 posted on 03/06/2011 8:54:46 AM PST by annieokie
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To: epithermal
JUST DRILL. All the oil companies should JUST DRILL.

What are they going to do if the Companies, JUST DRILL, send in the Nat'L guard with RUBBER BULLETS/bean bags?

Add to that: Any Democrat Senator can leave their state and fail in their constitutional oath of office, NOTHING IS DONE. It is way past time being nice and playing by the rules set to ruin this Nation.

Message to Oil companies: JUST DRILL ANYWAY

JMHO and WISHING

42 posted on 03/06/2011 8:55:26 AM PST by annieokie
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To: epithermal

Just another stall tactic by the administration. They will pull this stuff until the day we finally pry Barry’s fingers from around the door jamb of the Whitehouse.


43 posted on 03/06/2011 8:58:16 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: GladesGuru
From a quarter of a century of experience, trust me when I say that AgencyPersons only ask for public and expert input after the program is functionally decided upon.

This is an exceptionally insightful and powerful observation. If more people realized this, the Delphi Method used to manipulate opinion via staged conversation would lose its potency.

This is why the Left constantly focuses on the importance of "dialog". Once their "dialog" engages, all the decisions have already been made, and they are just stalling for time while creating the illusion of listening and building consensus.

44 posted on 03/06/2011 9:06:03 AM PST by Dr. Sheldon Cooper (I am one lab accident away from being a super-villian.)
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To: epithermal

And Justice Department lawyers.


45 posted on 03/06/2011 9:14:35 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: eyedigress

Americans are so stupid to put this jackass in power.<<<<<

A large percentage of them still have no idea what they have done or what’s coming!!


46 posted on 03/06/2011 9:45:14 AM PST by timetostand (Ya say ya wanna revolution -- OK!)
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To: Gondring

It actually has nothing to do with the filing. The feds have ignored the judge’s ruling.


47 posted on 03/06/2011 9:46:50 AM PST by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: timetostand

200 bucks a week from my stash won’t do it. Lazy and fat is not a virtue.


48 posted on 03/06/2011 9:55:28 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: jimjohn2458

I probably shouldn’t have posted when I have no time to reply, but see the following:
http://www.boemre.gov/PublicComment.htm
http://www.regulations.gov

Thank you!


49 posted on 03/06/2011 10:35:03 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: jospehm20

“Thank you. Thank you very much”. My best Elvis!

LLS


50 posted on 03/07/2011 4:07:41 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: Lion Den Dan
Excellent!
51 posted on 03/07/2011 4:09:06 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: 4Runner

“Yes, but what do we do about the hundreds of millions of fools and useful idiots who elected him in the first place?”

Eliminate all forms of welfare, food stamps, housing aid, medicaid, etc. and they will die off shortly.


52 posted on 03/07/2011 4:18:42 AM PST by dalereed
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To: struggle

LOL. The media continues to have his back. They carry on each day as though he’s done nothing wrong.


53 posted on 03/07/2011 4:22:25 AM PST by jersey117
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