Posted on 04/25/2011 6:28:52 AM PDT by thackney
Shell Oil Company has announced it must scrap efforts to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Alaska. The decision comes following a ruling by the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board to withhold critical air permits. The move has angered some in Congress and triggered a flurry of legislation aimed at stripping the EPA of its oil drilling oversight.
Shell has spent five years and nearly $4 billion dollars on plans to explore for oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The leases alone cost $2.2 billion. Shell Vice President Pete Slaiby says obtaining similar air permits for a drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico would take about 45 days. He’s especially frustrated over the appeal board’s suggestion that the Arctic drill would somehow be hazardous for the people who live in the area. “We think the issues were really not major,” Slaiby said, “and clearly not impactful for the communities we work in.”
The closest village to where Shell proposed to drill is Kaktovik, Alaska. It is one of the most remote places in the United States. According to the latest census, the population is 245 and nearly all of the residents are Alaska natives. The village, ...
The EPA’s appeals board ruled that Shell had not taken into consideration emissions from an ice-breaking vessel when calculating overall greenhouse gas emissions from the project. Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
“What the modeling showed was in communities like Kaktovik, Shell’s drilling would increase air pollution levels close to air quality standards,” said Eric Grafe, Earthjustice’s lead attorney on the case. Earthjustice was joined by Center for Biological Diversity and the Alaska Wilderness League in challenging the air permits.
At stake is an estimated 27 billion barrels of oil.
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This is idiocy personified. Lets give the Arabs yet more money to attack us with.
Insanity rules.
We need to vote in people who have common sense and replace the Senate and get a President who can lead this country!
If the President thinks the Tea Party is extreme now wait until 2012!!!
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BP’s rival stymied by US regulators. No surprise.
The EPA IS the new SS
Environmental Protection Agency.
A Republican legacy.
SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE.
Shocked. I am shocked I tell you!
Go to any national or international economic summit (G8, etc.) and look at all the anti business protesters, then imagine them going home to their day jobs, working for EPA and other anti business agencies.
Everything old is new again! time for some price controls and gas lines!
Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling.
Environmental groups were thrilled by the ruling. ..............
EPA places American security at risk...
EPA fails to support economic recovery...
EPA failure to support economic and resource growth threaten the ‘good faith and credit’ of the United States of America.
so what else is new for this Monday, April 25th?
This Pisses me off.........
Major cleaning of all legislative offices and agencies is our only hope. Clean, deport and repeat.
Insanity. Our national energy policy is being driven by pure insanity out of the EPA. And energy policy and costs are a major driver of the economy.
And I wonder if these environmental groups are funded by OPEC?
Ping. Greenhouse gas insanity.
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