Posted on 11/18/2016 7:53:47 AM PST by blueyon
Sally Jewell, the U.S. interior secretary, just cancelled leases to drill for natural gas on federal land in Colorado, in a last-ditch effort to stop an energy boom bigger than Bakken Shale discovery in North Dakota.
Jewell’s Bureau of Land Management claimed that the 25 “Mancos” energy drilling leases now being cancelled were just a non-performing portion of 65 leases on “lands managed by the White River National Forest” and “amount to less than ½ of 1 percent of the active leases on public lands in the state of Colorado.”
But the 25 properties were “non-performing” only because they have been tangled in red-tape since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, even though they were leased in 2005 during George W. Bush’s administration.
The BLM manages nearly 700 million acres of federal lands in the United States. Because of tight restrictions, the “onshore” oil and gas wells on BLM lands accounts for just 11 percent of the natural gas supply and five percent of the oil supply in the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Obama continues to be bought and paid for by the Opecker Princes.
It will take a decade to figure out the total damage this $orea$$/Opecker puppet had cause to Americans in the past 8 years.
Can't have American Energy, no no no!
You have to understand the simple reality...Saudis fund the Wahabbists, big time. You see the Saudis basically pay them blood money to keep them from attacking them... Every radical wahabbist expansion and attack is directly tied to the Saudi Government.
He’s telling the uber-Rich enviro-wacko community that the Democrats are still with them. It’s that community - their political support of Democrats - that has kept the economy in the dumps all these years.
And the butt hurt for them will be forever. Trump will undo this in the blink of an eye.
If your explanation is correct, why tear them up now, a few days after the election? Why not do it a year ago? Two years ago? Five years ago?
Want to make a big dent in Islamic terror? Drill, baby, drill, and then export oil to the rest of world causing riots in Opecker land.
Like the Danegeld, which will never really rid you of the Dane?
Very very foolish of them, since Allah can get mad at them too at any time for any reason.
And those permits will be back on January 21, 2017. This may turn into a gigantic waste of time.
There is usually a time limit on leases. Drill or lose them. This isn’t many leases. These probably simply timed out. Others will next year.
I didn’t vote for her. I want my state back.
Gasp! Can you believe it??? American independence from Saudi oil? How could that happen asks DUMBASS LIBERALS???
Glorious Leader doing a bit of damage on his way out. Once a putz, always a putz.
Trump should hold a presser early on with him using scissors to cut through a tangled mess of real red tape, then announce reinstatement of all cancelled leases and ending the 8 years of federal blockage of the legal use of the lands by the lessors. He could even give all the lessors advance notice so they could have drilling rigs sitting outside the gates with their engines idling and crews suited up and ready to work.
For a lease to expire sounds like something different from it getting “torn up.”
It does. Expiring would not provide clickbait.
Election 2016 (subtract all argument from emotion):
A nation commiting suicide vs. a nation that wants to live.
Fly over country report:
Since the Trump election and report of major oil shale and natural gas finds covering half the state of Texas, The oil fields are already begun preps for the boom they know is coming.
Local grocery store manager reports several employees negotiating their part time jobs because the oil patch has already begun hiring, and consumer confidence is skyrocketing.
Obummer cant leave fast enough!!
But neither would it give Sally anything to do (except reissue them for more bids).
Trump should sit in front of a heavy duty paper shredder with a copy of Obamacare legislation. He should then say: “See Pelosi ~ You have to shred it if you want to see it disappear.”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.