Alaska Ping!
Posted on 04/28/2017 10:44:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Working to dismantle his predecessor’s environmental legacy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at expanding drilling in the Arctic and opening other federal areas to oil and gas exploration.
With one day left to rack up accomplishments before he reaches his 100th day in office, Trump signed an order reversing some of former President Barack Obama’s restrictions and instructing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review a plan that dictates which federal locations are open to offshore drilling.
It’s part of Trump’s promise to unleash the nation’s energy reserves in an effort to reduce reliance on foreign oil and to spur jobs, regardless of fierce opposition from environmental activists who say offshore drilling harms whales, walruses and other wildlife and exacerbates global warming. […]
The executive order reverses part of a December effort by Obama to deem the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic as indefinitely off limits to oil and gas leasing. …
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Ah, more winning. Now, on to ANWR!!!!
WEEK TO 10 DAYS UNTIL SOME JUDGE PUTS AN INJUNCTION ON IT
“WEEK TO 10 DAYS UNTIL SOME JUDGE PUTS AN INJUNCTION ON IT”
Dang it, beat me to it.....
The liberals will decry our invasion of the “pristine” Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
I’ve heard so many refer to ANWR as a “pristine” place that you know they all work off the same talking points. How often is an obscure word such as “pristine” used by anyone in conversation?? Yet they all picked up on that word as the approved description of ANWR.
What are the odds that so many liberals independently would come up with the same description of a place none of them will ever visit????
Alaska Ping!
Not only that, but some “so called” judge will probably beat the 7 day injunction as well.
Judge Orrick has his ruling already written. This EO is creating “pre-drilling anxiety” in liberals everywhere and it cannot stand.
We’re you been? A judge will shoot this missile out of the sky in less than a week.
We now live in JUDGEMerica
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