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Obama withdraws Alaska's Bristol Bay from oil drilling
Associated Press Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ^ | Dec 16, 2014 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/16/2014 7:59:43 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

Edited on 12/16/2014 8:14:30 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he's removing more than 52,000 square miles of waters off Alaska's coast from consideration for oil and gas exploration or drilling.

The president said in a video announcement that Bristol Bay and nearby waters, covering an area roughly the size of Florida, would be withdrawn from consideration for petroleum leases. He called Bristol Bay one of the country's great natural resources and a massive economic engine.


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


TOPICS: Government; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; anwr; arctic; bristolbay; continentalshelf; drillbabydrill; drilling; energy; landgrab; methane; oil; opec; petroleum
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1 posted on 12/16/2014 7:59:43 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

President Cruz will reverse that.


2 posted on 12/16/2014 8:01:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama got “ bitch slapped “ today for unconstitutional amnesty by a Pennsylvania Federal judge. The courts are about to kick his smoke filled ass.


3 posted on 12/16/2014 8:07:51 PM PST by iowacornman (Romney is the father of government health care.)
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To: iowacornman

Until they run into a Federal judge further up the food chain that reverses it.


4 posted on 12/16/2014 8:10:35 PM PST by doc1019
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To: Jet Jaguar

Meanwhile, the Ruskies are claiming the entire Arctic for Drilling.


5 posted on 12/16/2014 8:11:50 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (If you thought the Mulatto Marxist was bad, wait until the Menopausal Marxist is Elected.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

The foreign jackass. Go sport fishing anywhere and the charter boats zoom straight towards the oil rigs.


6 posted on 12/16/2014 8:13:20 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: thackney

Ping.


7 posted on 12/16/2014 8:14:46 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Nachum

Ping


8 posted on 12/16/2014 8:15:02 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Jet Jaguar
President Cruz will reverse that.

And several hundred other un-Constitutional Executive Orders!

9 posted on 12/16/2014 8:15:39 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he's removing more than 52,000 square miles of waters off Alaska's coast from consideration for oil and gas exploration or drilling.

And previously gave seven Arctic islands in oil rich areas to Russia

The seven endangered islands in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea include one the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. The Russians are also to get the tens of thousands of square miles of oil-rich seabeds surrounding the islands. The Department of Interior estimates billions of barrels of oil are at stake.

The State Department has undertaken the giveaway in the guise of a maritime boundary agreement between Alaska and Siberia. Astoundingly, our federal government itself drew the line to put these seven Alaskan islands on the Russian side. But as an executive agreement, it could be reversed with the stroke of a pen by President Obama or Secretary Clinton.

The agreement was negotiated in total secrecy. The state of Alaska was not allowed to participate in the negotiations, nor was the public given any opportunity for comment. This is despite the fact the Alaska Legislature has passed resolutions of opposition – but the State Department doesn’t seem to care.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/obamas-giveaway-oil-rich-islands-to-russia/#KAkF9APjEex00CYu.99

10 posted on 12/16/2014 8:16:26 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Obama and his Muslim Brotherhood Regime doing all they can do to weaken America and, for an extra benefit, help out the Saudi brothers with limiting future oil supply.


11 posted on 12/16/2014 8:22:06 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


12 posted on 12/16/2014 8:23:53 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: DesertRhino

Yep. Fish love structure.

I bet the guy has only been fishing with a cig in one hand and a dubie in the other, while in HS in Hawaii just so he could mooch the smokes.

Wanna bet he couldn’t bait a hook with cut bait, live fish, live worms, or even a fake worm? How about doing it without being a little girl about it?


13 posted on 12/16/2014 8:26:20 PM PST by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“President Cruz will reverse that.”

If that is actually true, he is the man!! God save us from Obola, the sequel.


14 posted on 12/16/2014 8:26:52 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: bluejean

He’s from Texas, for goodness sakes.


15 posted on 12/16/2014 8:28:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

How is a Federal set aside an economic engine. More Karl Marx economics.

Just when oil was becoming affordable he takes more off the market.

Pray America is waking


16 posted on 12/16/2014 8:28:51 PM PST by bray (Palin/Perry 16 two Ps in a pod)
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To: iowacornman

Was “smoke” a typo? Did you mean “semen” instead?


17 posted on 12/16/2014 8:30:24 PM PST by peyton randolph (Good intentions do not excuse poor results.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

He hates these dropping gas prices


18 posted on 12/16/2014 8:30:46 PM PST by Sybeck1
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To: Jet Jaguar

Another day, another action deemed.


19 posted on 12/16/2014 9:26:09 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jet Jaguar

is there ANYTHING left he can do to inflict more harm on America?


20 posted on 12/16/2014 9:36:21 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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