Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/26/2011 2:59:28 PM PDT by tobyhill
After spending nearly $4 billion exploring, Shell Oil has been told it cannot start drilling for an estimated 27 billion gallons in the country’s most remote place — because a boat it uses might pollute the air. The Environmental Protection Agency’s appeals board denied permission for the Anglo-Dutch company to drill in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northern coast, Fox News reports.
Shell did not take emissions from an icebreaking vessel into consideration when calculating so-called greenhouse gases from the project, the board said.
The closest human habitation to the proposed drilling site is the native Alaskan village of Kaktovik, with a population of 245, 70 miles away.
The oil company slammed the decision and renewed calls to stop EPA interference in drilling decisions.
“We think the issues were really not major and clearly not impactful for the communities we work in,” said Shell Vice President Pete Slaiby.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
So the EPA looked for any reason they could to deny the permit.
Relax, Slaiby. Just get out your wallet. /s
That is exactly what they did and then the idiot head of the EPA had the nerve to say that they aren’t responsible for gas price increase.
So much for defunding the EPA.
These Luddite idealogues will not rest until our society is reduce to living like cavemen. If anyone wants to know the blueprint for the utopia these people want, get and read a copy of “The Kin of Atta”. It will all become sickeningly clear.
Defund and eliminate the EPA NOW!
The sad truth is when the international bankers take control of our resources...all this will go away
An icebreaking boat?
Aren’t there boats out there already?
End the EPA!
For the Obastard administration, any excuse will do.
Correction, it’s “the Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You” by Dorothy Bryant. Utopian literature and a blueprint for where many of our “educated” fellow citizens wish to take us.
The “Great UnNatural Acts” Wilderness, Endangered Species, Clean Air/Water - all were designed to destroy America.
They are working as designed.
Regulation costs America 1.7 trillion bucks annually.
Repeal all such laws.
If we have them and our competitors don’t, we are doomed to ruin.
The city of Kaktovik, Alaska
A bowhead whale is butchered on the beach in Kaktovik, Alaska.
How much smoke can there be from 70 miles away on the North Pole? This is absurd.
Pray for America
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The EPA contends that Shell's icebreaker might pollute the air.
Fox News reported the appeals board has four members, all Democrats, including Kathie Stein, whom it described as “an activist attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund.”
Environmental Appeals Board
United States Environmental Protection Agency
From left to right: Karl Coplan, Hon. Kathie Stein & Hon. Paul V. Niemeyer
We are not seeing just an assault on energy in America. What we are seeing is outright war,... and the enemy is winning!
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