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War On Shale: EPA Targets Fracking Boom With New Regs
Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 15. 2015 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 01/15/2015 10:09:56 AM PST by raptor22

Energy Policy: In spite of dramatically lower methane emissions from fracking, according to the EPA's own data, the agency wants to impose draconian regulations on the oil and gas industry similar to those on coal.

The new rules that the White House announced on Wednesday aim to cut oil emissions of methane, a target of environmental groups, by 45% below 2012 levels, despite the fact that the emissions already show a sharp decline even as shale oil and gas production has skyrocketed.

This war-on-shale action mirrors the administration's war on coal, with EPA rules impossible to meet economically and sometimes requiring technology that doesn't even exist.

Never mind that there's no evidence of the climate change that environmentalists fear. And the EPA doesn't seem to care that the U.S. leads in reducing the fake nightmare of greenhouse gases.

It is an alleged threat of methane to the Earth's climate that has green groups pushing the EPA to limit hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technology that has spawned a job-creating oil and natural-gas boom.

It has also been used as a weapon against the Keystone XL pipeline, which would ship oil from Canada's oil sands and North Dakota's Bakken shale formation to our Gulf Coast refineries.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: bakken; energy; environment; epa; epaoutofcontrol; fracking; govtabuse; ibd; keystonepipeline; keystonexl; kxl; marcellus; methane; oil; regulation; shale; waroncoal
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To: Grampa Dave; granite; GreenFreeper; grjr21; I got the rope; IchBinEinBerliner; jaredt112; JayB; ...

FRACKING PING


21 posted on 01/15/2015 11:05:43 AM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: Red Badger

yeah, you had to know they’d go after them for making an end run around the “no energy for you” policy of this admin.


22 posted on 01/15/2015 11:06:54 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: raptor22

Is the EPA working to help Iran get oil prices back up? Face it, the EPA is part of the Obama Administration....


23 posted on 01/15/2015 11:07:55 AM PST by GOPJ (NYT "Free Speech" - ISIS can post severed heads to twitter but we can't post Mohammed cartoons.)
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To: raptor22

I presume once the EPA has gone through the comment and review period and instituted the regulations, it will be very difficult (and time-consuming) for a subsequent administration to reverse course.

In addition to using the required review and comment period, environmental groups could initiate lengthy law suits to delay (or stop) the overturning the regulations.

Am I correct?


24 posted on 01/15/2015 11:08:33 AM PST by Menthops (If you are reading this..... the GOPe hates you!)
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To: raptor22

The Evirowhacko Political Arm of the government thinks we can run the nation on wishful thinking and unicorn farts.


25 posted on 01/15/2015 11:17:46 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: Still Thinking; StopGlobalWhining; Straight Vermonter; Tampa Caver; TChris; ...

FRACKING PING


26 posted on 01/15/2015 11:20:57 AM PST by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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27 posted on 01/15/2015 11:21:25 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: raptor22
Guess Obama won't be happy until we are 100% dependent on Saudi oil.

That way the Saudis can treat us like Russia treats Ukraine and we'll just have to bow and take it.

28 posted on 01/15/2015 11:54:11 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: FatherofFive

I’m sure the Republican House and Senate will reign in the EPA this time around. /sarc.

More likely they will increase it’s budget by as much or more than Obozo asks for.


29 posted on 01/15/2015 11:57:19 AM PST by barefoot_hiker
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To: raptor22

It is long past time for Congress to rein-in the EPA.


30 posted on 01/15/2015 11:57:37 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: raptor22

The mulatto muslim strikes again.


31 posted on 01/15/2015 12:11:36 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: raptor22
It's funny but for years the annual battle cry of politicians was American "energy independence".

Now that we're energy independent the politicians want to stop it.

Notice I use the derogatory slur "politicians" and not the meaningless descriptors "D" and "R".

32 posted on 01/15/2015 12:34:29 PM PST by Pietro
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To: A. Morgan

<>It’s time for a Convention of States to end this run away Federal Government!<>

Yes, it is past time to assert our sovereignty.


33 posted on 01/15/2015 2:51:15 PM PST by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: raptor22

Can you add me to your fracking pings? Thanks!


34 posted on 01/15/2015 4:02:37 PM PST by MarMema (Run Ted Run)
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To: thackney
The Fracking earthquake risk has also begun to generate some legal momentum.

And, when all else fails, the time honored water table risk is always good for a "temporary" injunction.

35 posted on 01/15/2015 5:15:08 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: raptor22
How are we going to fund Islamic terrorism without an oil shortage?

Sheesh, you'd think this was a bunch of communists still trying to shore up Soviet cash flow!

Oh, wait...

36 posted on 01/15/2015 5:40:57 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Those who profess noblesse oblige regress to droit du seigneur.)
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To: Pietro

Re: “Now that we’re energy independent...”

If only.

From the USEIA, in 2013...

We imported 9.9 million barrels per day of crude oil and refined petroleum products.

We exported 3.6 million barrels per day.

Net imports were 6.2 million.

We consumed about 18.5 million barrels per day.

Petroleum imports are (were) roughly 33% of our consumption.


37 posted on 01/15/2015 5:57:54 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: raptor22
Add in the new Gas Tax they're kicking about and we can see one thing clearly: the elites are really against the common man being able to afford energy.
38 posted on 01/18/2015 2:29:21 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Jacquerie
>> It’s time for a Convention of States to end this run away Federal Government!
>
> Yes, it is past time to assert our sovereignty.

Yep; and the method to do that is Article V.

39 posted on 01/18/2015 2:31:13 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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