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Billionaire Tom Steyer calls on Obama to block offshore drilling
Politico via Hot Air ^ | 11-14-16 | By Esther Whieldon, Politico via Hot Air John Sexton

Posted on 11/14/2016 9:44:23 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer is calling on President Obama to permanently ban offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic using his executive authority.

From Politico:

NextGen and White House officials have discussed the possibility of Obama using his executive powers under a section of the law governing offshore drilling that allows him to “withdraw from disposition” any section of the Outer Continental Shelf that has not already been leased for oil or gas drilling…

Steyer’s group says more permanent protections are available using section 12(a) of the OCS Lands Act. Similar to the Antiquities Act, which presidents can use to create national monuments to permanently protect parcels of land from development, Section 12(a) does not include language that allows future presidents to undo the withdrawal of offshore areas from future leasing.

“We know that this idea has been under serious consideration in the White House, from direct conversations, but we don’t know where they are in that process at this stage,” said a NextGen Climate America official who requested anonymity and would not say when the conversations happened.

So, because this section of the Act doesn’t specifically say it is reversible, Trump would need to go to court to try to reverse it. That doesn’t mean he couldn’t do it, only that it might be a new precedent if he did. Politico spoke to a former Interior official who says, “ “No president has ever rescinded an open-ended reserve under this, and so there’s no litigation history.”

The other part of this story that is interesting is that Steyer seems to be revealing the White House was quietly considering doing this anyway.

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


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KEYWORDS: energy; environment; envirowackos; erf; executiveauthority; nextgen; offshoredrilling; oil; tomsteyer
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I do not believe there is such a thing as a “permanent” executive order.


21 posted on 11/14/2016 10:41:32 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Act like a monarch, as you pack up the U-Haul.


22 posted on 11/14/2016 10:58:27 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Two billionaires with one thing in common: Bankrolling the Democrat Party:

George Soros and Tom Steyer

23 posted on 11/15/2016 12:46:01 AM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Makes me think of that old timey song, although changing one lyric, which goes like this:

“Anything you can do, I can Un-Do better.....I can Un-Do anything better than you....Oh no you can’t....oh, yes I can.....”

From “Annie Get Your Gun”.......maybe Trump will put this now very non-pc musical back on Broadway.......hmmmmm........calling LaPierre!....


24 posted on 11/15/2016 1:26:39 AM PST by Be Careful
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Drill anyway, and mine for coal.


25 posted on 11/15/2016 1:32:05 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Obama needs to write another EO. That will work/s


26 posted on 11/15/2016 2:35:59 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Ok, so answer me this.... How and why is this guy a billionare? So he is in a lather about Offshore Drilling and ANWR etc places where the environment adds a ton of cost to extraction vs. on Terra Firma in the lower 48 via Fracking? Does he realize the other 2 may go away do to their expense?


27 posted on 11/15/2016 2:45:01 AM PST by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I’d love having some offshore drilling platforms here in South East Florida. Great fishing platforms, just ask the folks near Mobile.


28 posted on 11/15/2016 3:15:54 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Her ass belongs in prison.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Obama to permanently ban offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic using his executive authority.

That's the fatal flaw of executive authority - it only lasts so long as the executive has authority, and the POTUS' term is temporary. Sorry Charlie.

29 posted on 11/15/2016 4:00:26 AM PST by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

IIRC, isn’t the Italian oil company, Eni, drilling off the shore of Alaska...?


30 posted on 11/15/2016 4:15:14 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: mewzilla

As of 2015: Hilcorp, Eni, BP, Repsol, ConocoPhillips Co. and Iona Energy Co. also currently own drilling rights in the United States’ portion of the Arctic.


31 posted on 11/15/2016 4:19:07 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Vendome
He’ll look pretty foolish when Trump rescinds that EC on January 21st, 2017

Non, now, be fair! Obama has a lot of EOs on the books and Trump has a lot more things to do than to just undo the bad EOs. So it might take DJT to 01/31/17 for 'X'ing this one!

32 posted on 11/15/2016 4:48:02 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

If something can be done by EO, it can be undone by EO. There is no issue here.


33 posted on 11/15/2016 4:48:49 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

He’s got his millions; he could give a sh*t.


34 posted on 11/15/2016 7:25:13 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Hitler and his crew in the bunker circa march 1945


35 posted on 11/15/2016 7:29:26 AM PST by BRL
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