Trump Readies Executive Order To Open The Arctic, Atlantic Oceans To Drilling

dailycaller.com ^ | 4/7/2017 | Michael Bastasch

[rktman]

The Trump administration is developing an order to open new areas to offshore oil and gas drilling, reversing former President Barack Obama’s unilateral decision to lock up most of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, according to industry sources.

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke told industry representatives the new drilling plan would be signed soon, according to Bloomberg. However, he gave few details on what the order could include.

The Department of the Interior’s (DOI) new five-year offshore drilling plan could take years to develop and would replace the Obama administration’s five-year plan finalized in November.

President Donald Trump promised to end Obama-era restrictions on energy production in order to unlock revenue from natural resources and create jobs. DOI raised $275 million in bids in a recent lease auction for the Gulf of Mexico.

Trump is expected to sign the order by the end of April, and it’s sure to draw legal challenges from environmentalists who’ve argued Obama’s indefinite ban on Arctic and Atlantic drilling can’t be overturned.

Obama used Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law governing offshore drilling, in an unprecedented way, blocking leases in the Atlantic Ocean and the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

Obama’s order took 125 million acres in Arctic seas and four million acres in the Atlantic Ocean out of future lease sales indefinitely. Supporters said the former president’s actions “permanently” banned drilling in those regions.

But the drilling ban is only permanent if Congress doesn’t change the law or Trump doesn’t move to test it in court. Past presidents have reduced the size of Section 12(a) designations but never fully repealed them.

[rktman]

But what about the lobstuhs?

[sagar]

“Isn’t Trump just a tool of the Globalists?”

Well, do them, Oil Companies are globalists.

[eartick]

This is YUGE and wonderful.

I was disappointed when he only through a bone to the oil industry with the opening of the Gulf region which has no recoverable hydrocarbons.

BUT this is great and will definetly get appreciated by the oil industry owners and the folks that work or need a job.

Thank you President Trump and to hell with the enviro weenie whiners

[pas]

Liberal judge readied to stop executive order of Trump.....

[novemberslady]

Bttt

[novemberslady]

Unless we get JR’d. As in Justice Roberts’d

...unless enough is finally enough and he and the other egos in robes are ignored.

I never voted for them.

[Ben Ficklin]

"now open up the California coast for drilling"

Do you even read these articles?

Its confusing because they are talking about different things.

Look at line 3 and it says that trump could come up with a new 5 year drilling plan but it would take years to develop, so it is not likely he will do that. The next five year drilling plan will be written by whoever wins the next presidential election, which could be trump. As it is the current plan that Obamy put in place 2017-2022 is 2 sales per year in the Gulf of Mexico in the spring and fall. They just had the spring sale in the gulf a couple of weeks ago. Also the 5 year plan includes one sale in Cook Inlet Alaska.

As for drilling offshore California, Trump can't do that. The submerged land act requires the feds to consult with a state before they open it for drilling. Offshore drilling is the exception, not the rule.

So what are they are talking about in the article? These areas. that Obama permanently withdrew from production.Here is a map of the Atlantic showing the canyons Obama withdrew. You can find a map of the arctic area that was withdrawn.

Trump wants to combine the atlantic area and arctic area, plus the national monument in Utah and put them back they were. Many lawsuits coming down the road.

[EBH]

He has to if we’re to make America Great Again.

Middle East oil is leading straight to the gates of hell. If we lose Syria to Russia the entire European oil pipeline is controlled by Putin.

[Buttons12]

How can this be? Isn’t Trump just a tool of the Globalists?

I don't care if he's a tool of the Kardashians, as long as he isn't Pres. Hillary Clinton. :)

[minnesota_bound]

Price of energy will be cheaper everywhere but California which just raised taxes on gas again.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Open them all up anyway. I’ll bet this will pass muster with SCOTUS, now that Gorsuch has been confirmed.

[Eleutheria5]

Drill, baby! Drill!

[Deplorable American1776]

Can lobsters be converted into fuel? 😀

[central_va]

What next nuclear power plants?