Posted on 03/19/2011 9:19:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Yes, as he continues to hold up drilling permits for U.S. oil companies in the Gulf.
(Reuters) — The U.S. Interior Department said on Thursday it gave final approval for Petrobras to use the first ever deepwater floating production storage facility in the Gulf of Mexico.
The facility will be used when the company begins oil and natural gas production at its Chinook-Cascade project in the near future, the department said. Petrobras is based in Brazil.
A Petrobras official who asked not to be identified told Reuters that production would begin in May.
The floating facility has a daily production capacity of 80,000 barrels of oil and 16 million cubic feet of gas. It can be disconnected and moved out of the path of a storm, unlike permanently moored production platforms, preventing long-term supply disruptions because of storms.
“These regulatory approvals pave the way for safe, new production of oil and gas resources in the Gulf of Mexico,” said Michael Bromwich, who heads the department’s agency that oversees offshore drilling.
Such vessels are common for offshore production in other countries without seabed pipelines to transport oil and gas to shore, such as West Africa and Brazil. Petrobras has a fleet of them off Brazil’s shores, and Exxon Mobil Corp uses one of the largest units in the world at one of its fields in offshore Angola.
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Timely, considering the First Family’s upcoming holiday to Rio.
Is any other candidate talking about energy independence?
Newt?
Impeach him now, or haven’t you had enough already and want the rest of this year and next?
We don’t and never will have the votes. He could shoot a puppy on live TV and his poll numbers would probably go up.
Wow. BTTT.
We could do it in the House, the impeachment part, if we’re serious about it and present our case to those undecided. The Senate’s vote to convict is not as easy, but there needs to be some accountability, and it would curtail the other mischief he surely has in mind, or that his handlers and string-pullers do.
We’re not guaranteed of being rid of him in 2012 either, when it comes right down to it.
It would hand him the election. They’d paint it as Republican/Tea Party racism. My worry is that he won’t go peacefully if he’s beaten in the 2012 election (see Bush vs. Gore X10) or will cause riots and rebellion.
Furthering the communist goal of destroying America, helped here by the environmentalist/green movement, DSA, and now the EPA, and others. Take the production away from America and you destroy her. The once capitalist nation becomes enslaved. Lets not forget erosion from the inside too, the schools teaching a dumbed down socialist agenda, and the masses on public assistance voting for their entitlements. Unfortunately, the baby boomer population bought into the promises (propaganda) of these entitlements—social security and medicare and now are realizing they were screwed, or screwing the next generations. After all they did to protect our country, what did our country do in return? Use the crisis to take more power and convince more people that government can solve their problems.
George Soros again. When is this crook going to be arrested?
Obama is insane with his hatred of America.
George Soros again
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Yep. Crime Inc.
This has been going on a while:
“Did Obama bribe Brazil with $2 billion to help put Honduras’s Zelaya back into power?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2352071/posts
Source: http://islandturtle.blogspot.com/2009/09/did-obama-bribe-brazil-with-2-billion.html
September 30, 2009
“Something smells fishy. First the Obama administration announces $2 billion of financial support for Brazil’s offshore drilling efforts. And a month later Brazil spirits legally deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya back into the country, granting him sanctuary in its embassy. Are these two stories related?”
We saw how that one finally played out, our did we? Obozo and the State Department is still trying to get Mel (Zelaya) the Commie back in power.
Professional Courtesy, one Commie Tyrant to another.
Well stated. I agree with what you said.
Am a boomer, and know we are screwed.
This is not going to play out nicely. The Left will have to be extracted from all government if the nation is to survive. Beginning with the “resident” of 1600 Penn. Ave.
There is more, concerning the Export/Import Bank and the “President” that Obozo appointed soon after his coronation.
Soros
Gop contenders should be jumping all over odumbi’s hypocritical promise to be Brazil’s oil customer.
She’s in India right now, but I’m sure she’ll get on it.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
It’s going to be Bush v. Gore only much worse.
And yet we have been PREVENTED from developing our own oil reserves and thus our energy independence! Our hands have been tied! This is outrageous!
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