Obama Clears the Way to Shut Down Oil Production in the Permian Basin of West Texas

ChicoER Gate ^ | 4/25/11 | Chuck Wolk

[OneVike]

From the moment Richard Nixon created the EPA in 1970, and signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law, they have been the primary engines of social change used by leftists environmental elitists to destroy America. They have done so by infiltrating the EPA, and the US Fish & Wildlife (USF&W) the agency which decides what animals will be listed as endangered. Now, 28 years later, these renegade environmentalist wackos are prepared to use the ESA to shut down oil and gas operations in portions of Southeast New Mexico and in West Texas, including the state's top two oil producing counties. All because of a tiny lizard they claim to be endangered, and Obama who has the power to put it on a waiting list has cleared the way for it to be listed.

Through the years the EPA & the ESA have been used to shut down vast areas of America that we as Americans need to survive in a modern world. Areas that contain, rich farmland needed to grow food that both America and foreign countries need to feed billions of people. Forest areas so rich in timber that the price of building homes could be reduced dramatically if only we were allowed to harvest them. Instead, year after year we spend billions fighting fires that reduce the timber to ashes. When it comes to energy, these government paid earth worshipers have used their power to keep us from drilling for oil, and stand in the way of building needed power plants all across America. According to a recent Congressional report America has the largest oil, coal, and natural gas reserves in the world, if tapped we could be completely energy independent. Truth is, America has enough natural energy reserves, timberland, sustainable farm land, freshwater lakes and underground reservoirs that we could reduce the cost of living for each and every American by more than 50%, if only the governments chains of restrictions were removed.

The earth worshiping environmentalists running the USF&W have used an owl to shut down logging in the Northwest, a mouse to shut down wheat farming in Colorado, a minnow and rat to end vegetable growing in California, a frog has closed fish hatcheries in the deep South, while the reintroduction of wolves are endangering the lives of ranchers, farmers, and hunters all across America from the Rockies to Maine. Now they are planning to use a lizard to shut shut down oil production in America's richest source of domestic energy, the Permian Basin of West Texas. We already have one of the largest oil reserves put off limits by the EPA in Anwar Alaska, while Obama is ignoring a Federal judges order to allow drilling to continue in the Gulf. This while almost every communist country in the world has oil wells operating in our backyard, the Gulf of Mexico.

In a logical universe, we would have politicians that would do all they can to make sure Americans had a cost of living so low that no one in America would be struggling to make ends meet.  Instead these traitors would rather see Americans struggle to survive while they act as if their various government programs are saving the day. Never before in the history of the world has a countries leaders tried so hard to force its citizens to become so dependent and subservient to other countries. Many of which are our sworn enemies. Can anyone imagine Alexander, Caesar, or even George Washington forcing their citizens to humble themselves before an enemy of lesser power like Persia, Carthage, or England? No, only a modern day Judas, Ephialtes, or Benedict Arnold, would cause their own people to suffer the indignities our leaders so consistently force us to.

The current threat to America's freedom comes from a 3 inch lizard called the Sceloporus Arenicolus, or better known as the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard or the Sand Dune Lizard. It was originally classified as a subspecies of the Sceloporus Graciosus, or Common Sagebrush Lizard. Before they designated the Dune Lizards as a separate species, there were so many of them you could feed them to the Chinese as a delicacy and never run out. It was in 2002 that the Center for Biological Diversity first petitioned to have the lizard listed as endangered. The Bush administration stood in the way of the lizard being listed for 6 years, but last year Obama cleared the way by ordering his administration to back off from delaying the listing. This in spite of the news that Obama has repeatedly refused to grant species the protection for which they are known to qualify adding them instead to the waiting list. So why did he allow this lizard to be listed? There can be only one reason, and that is because Obama wants to destroy America's ability to be energy free. So his relentless attack on America's energy capabilities continues. Go figure.

There was a rally in Roswell NM last week on April 20th that had hundreds protesting the listing and there will be another one on Tuesday April 26th, in Midland Tx at the Midland Center that begins at 5 p.m. with Congressman Mike Conaway will speaking to the concerned citizens. Then on Wednesday April 27th, there will be a public hearing held at 6:30 p.m at the Midland Center. If you want to be heard then be there to support those at the front line in the battle to stop a lizard from shutting down Americas 2 largest working oil wells.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
-- Samuel Adams --
Leader in our Fight for Independence

The following is from the Federal register PDF file.  In it the USF&W explains what they are attempting to accomplish through the Endangered Species Act, (here is the link to the official PDF file) We, the USF&W, propose to list the dunes sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus Arenicolus), a lizard known from southeastern New Mexico and adjacent west Texas, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. If we finalize the rule as proposed, it would extend the Act's protections to this species. We have determined that critical habitat for the dunes sagebrush lizard is prudent but not determinable at this time. Proposed Listing Determination We have carefully assessed the best scientific and commercial information available regarding the past, present, and future threats to the dunes sagebrush lizard. The dunes sagebrush lizard faces immediate and significant threats due to oil and gas activities, and herbicide treatments. Habitat loss and fragmentation due to oil and gas development is a measureable factor impacting the species due to the removal of shinnery oak and creation of roads and pads, pipelines, and power lines that create habitat patches and increase the proportion of habitat edge to habitat interior. In addition, impacts that are not easily quantified such as climate change, competition, and pollution may exacerbate adverse effects caused by habitat loss. Cumulative threats to the dunes sagebrush lizard are not being adequately addressed through existing regulatory mechanisms. Oil and gas pollutants are a current and ongoing threat to the species throughout its range. We believe the following actions may jeopardize this species, and therefore we would seek to conference with BLM and NRCS on these actions: The lease of land for oil and gas drilling, Applications to drill, Applications for infrastructure through dunes (including, but not limited to pipelines and power lines), OHV activities, Seismic exploration, Continued oil and gas operations (release of pollution and routine maintenance), Grazing leases, Renewable resource activities, and Chemical and mechanical removal of shinnery oak habitat. Do not place power lines and fences through shinnery oak dune complexes; Develop transmission corridors for pipelines and power lines; Limit pollution by inspecting pipelines and equipment; Develop and implement plans for cleaning oil spills; Limit hydrogen sulfide emissions; Maintain wells; and Limit any further infrastructure that would remove the shinnery oak dunes. Possible measures that could be implemented to conserve the dunes sagebrush lizard and its habitat are: Maintain 500-m (1640-ft) wide dispersal corridors in shinnery oak dunes for the dunes sagebrush lizards to disperse between habitat patches; Discontinue chemical spraying within occupied or suitable habitat; Place well pads outside of shinnery oak dunes and corridors between dune complexes; Manage well density to limit development in habitat; Minimize well pad size and carry out site reclamation; Develop techniques to recreate shinnery oak dunes; Limit OHV use in occupied habitat; Minimize impacts of seismic exploration by thumper trucks; Develop a public awareness program;

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[OneVike]

If they do end up listing the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard on the endangered species list, they could end up shutting down thousands of oil wells. Does anyone really think Obama cares whether or not the government will lose the tax revenue that will not be collected if the well cease to operate?

Personally, I think the Muslim in the White House would love to have both the oil wells shut down, and the loss of tax revenue, because he hates Texas as much if not more than he hates capitalism.

[Armaggedon]

Obama the Islamo-Marxist-Chicago Gangster serves his trinity of hate, lies and death. You will get no mercy from Obama. He hates the light of God. He serves the lord of darkness.

[The Cajun]

I think we are at the enough is enough point in this country.
Lines in the sand need to be drawn for real.

[OneVike]

I know what side I’m on.

Got my back?

[The Cajun]

Worked oilfield 30 years, what do you think :^)

[OneVike]

I knew the answer before I asked... :>)

[napscoordinator]

From the moment Richard Nixon created the EPA in 1970,

Worst Republican President in history. I don’t care how “conservative” FREEPERS say he was. You don’t create a big government agency and claim conservatism. Same goes for President Bush and that ridiculous Homeland Security. Big Government Republicans. Not to mention the embarrassment that Nixon caused the Republicans for years and years after his crooked ways.

[re_nortex]

Personally, I think the Muslim in the White House would love to have both the oil wells shut down, and the loss of tax revenue, because he hates Texas as much if not more than he hates capitalism.

Compiling a list of what O'Bambi, the usurping _resident hates is exhausting. Here are just a few of his intense hatreds:

• Christianity and Christians
• The unborn
• America and real Americans
• Freedom and liberty
• The Constitution
• Our Founding Fathers
• Texas and Texans
• The South and Southerners
• Our military
• Prosperity and earned success
• A good day's work
• [...hundreds more...]

[dr_lew]

Impeachment looms as the only answer. And this time it’s serious!

[re_nortex]

[Nixon] Worst Republican President in history.

I actively campaigned and proudly voted for RMN in 1960 since I was favorably impressed by his anti-Communism, notably his exposure of Alger Hiss. He was Ike's attack dog while VP and I still think he would have been superb in 1960.

Then after going 100% for Barry Goldwater even more zealously than I did for RMN four years prior, I saw that the 1968 Nixon had moved to the mushy middle and became a full-fledged RINO. It was then that I supported the ticket with the great General Curtis Emerson LeMay on board that year. Had this true American hero assumed office, Vietnam would have been another victory and Red China would have been neutralized. (IMHO).

The Richard Nixon that served as POTUS inhabited the same body as the candidate I backed in 1960. But he wasn't the same man. The Nixon I supported so many years ago would have never brought us wage and price controls, the abolition of the gold standard, the ABM treaty with the USSR, a relationship with Red China that's costing us dearly now and the horror of the EPA. He became an establishment man and left his anti-Communism and Conservatism by the wayside.

[BigFinn]

That’s not an endangered species... I saw a few of those in my backyard today. And I don’t live in Texas. If it wasn’t a lizard then it would be some other critter. Soon and very soon WE will all be the endangered species... if Obama gets his way.

[TigersEye]

It Begins… First Oil Rig Relocates From Gulf to Foreign Waters

"As a result of the uncertainties surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, we are actively seeking international opportunities to keep our rigs fully employed," Dickerson said. "We greatly regret the loss of U.S. jobs that will result from this rig relocation."

Idled Gulf Rigs Head For Africa

It is not just Gulf operations that are being effected either.

Wait and see for Shell {Shell puts Arctic drilling plans on hold, waiting on feds}

Let's not leave the refineries out.

EPA gives final "no" to Texas refinery permits

Then there are the land-based oil leases.

Judge Grills Feds on Pulling Drilling Leases

"A federal judge on Wednesday questioned Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's justification for canceling 77 drilling leases sold by the Bush administration around national parks in Utah."

U.S. Saw Drill Ban Killing Many Jobs [ie. Obama KNEW he was destroying jobs, kept it secret]

Obama and O'Malley are Hurting the Poor in Md by Shutting Down Nuclear Power

Obama Administration Blocking 103 Gulf Drilling Permits February 03, 2011

Obama Clears the Way For America's 2 Largest Oil Wells to be Shutdown in Texas April 25th, 2011 (to "save" an "endangered" lizard)

EPA threatens Utah with air quality sanctions

Energy in America: EPA Rules Force Shell to Abandon Oil Drilling Plans

[SuperLuminal]

Could this be the spark that starts the confligration?

[Sea Parrot]

I am retired oilfield trash and I would say this reminds me of the Carter years in the oilpatch, but only much, much, worse,

If America does not get a competent helmsman and crew for the ship of state in 2012, we are headed for hell, and without the proverbial hand basket.

[hfr]

Shut down production because of environmental concerns.

Blame the industry for price gouging.

It seems like the old policies of deception are beginning to clank like an old rundown machine.

There hardly needs to be even a tip of the hat to plausibility anymore. It’s almost as if it’s become a joke to offer ridiculous excuses to shut us down.

It must be obvious by now to anyone who even takes a cursory glance that the bipartisan intent is to ruin this country.

[Fresh Wind]

Do all these tree huggers actually think that these endangered critters will still be protected after Buck Ofama’s Muslim horde overruns the country?

[LaMudBug]

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2011/04/george-carlin-o.html

This George Carlin 7.30min video about Earth Day ties in with this.

[expatguy]

Many of us are beyond that point my FRiend

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[Carley]

Oh, I was so worried. I thought the kangaroo rat or the snail darter was being jeopardised by those vicious oil wells.

[scooby321]

Alaska and Texas can leave the country if they do I moving to Texas

Alaska is too cold.