Posted on 07/29/2011 2:05:05 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 25, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings today released a YouTube video unveiling discussion draft legislation to reorganize and reform the Interior Department’s offshore energy oversight. The draft proposal officially abolishes the Minerals Management Service to create three separate agencies and establishes a new Under Secretary of Energy, Lands and Minerals in order to elevate the role of American energy production on public lands within the Interior Department.
These reforms will help expand American energy production in order to protect and create American jobs, grow the economy and lower energy costs, while ensuring that all activity is conducted with proper oversight.
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More government expansion. Abolish one, the Minerals Management Service, and create three new agencies.
No wonder we can’t get the federal budget under control!
There is no expansion necessary here. Better focus on energy production is totally appropriate. On the face of it this is a good thing.
“Better focus...” is nuts. This is bout more regulation and more government interference in energy production.
I worked in the nuclear energy industry for years. Over regulation has just about killed it.
This new proposal sounds pretty good so far. I’ve been in environmental clean-up affairs for almost 20 years and I’ve seen a great need for clearly defined agencies/missions that avoid duplication and thus duplicative costs.
This plan is a badly needed refinement of a bureaucracy good wild, and the EPA is even worse.
Should be “a bureaucracy gone wild”.
My computer has also gone wild.
So how does this plan fit in with the Dept. of Energy? Why doesn’t the DOE ride herd on the exploitation of energy resources on public lands. Let the Dpt. of Interior take care of the National Parks and the other matters involving public owned lands. Otherwise abolish the Dept of Energy completely. They have yet to produce one BTU of energy of any kind.
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