Posted on 09/18/2017 10:04:44 AM PDT by rktman
President Donald Trump is moving toward allowing energy exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for the first time in several decades, according to a report Friday from The Washington Post.
Interior Department officials are modifying decades-old regulations that have traditionally prevented the agency from conducting seismic studies seen as the first step towards drilling, the report notes.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director James W. Kurth told the agency’s Alaska regional director to strike constraints on a rule that allowed exploratory drilling between 1984 and 1986, the last time drilling was allowed in the ANWR, according to a document WaPo obtained.
“When finalized, the new regulation will allow for applicants to [submit] requests for approval of new exploration plans,” Kurth wrote in the August memo. Yet oil and gas drilling within the refuge’s 19.6 million acres can only take place through Congressional fiat.
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Maybe some people in Alaksa don’t want to go to the Gulf to drill and would prefer ANWR. Not everyone who wants to drill wants to drill in the Gulf. We should allow drilling everywhere.
I for one, would like gas at $ 1.00 a gallon. MASSIVE TAX CUT for middle class
There is nothing free market about this. They need to get on public land to drill then they need to have a pipeline extended over public land. It will end up being cronyism. Texas and North Dakota are free market. They drill on private land. They run a pipe over private and public lands and pay rent for it.
Its likely that nobody will even drill up there. They will get title to the drilling, hold it and sell it in the future. This is far from free enterprise.
I am willing to listen if you have legitimate points, but not sure your explanation is complete, especially when you say there is “no free market”. Why should it not be up to the state of Alaska to decide what is good for business in Alaska? Why do we need the Federal govt to regulate, and tie up these resources rather than let the American people and industry develop them, so long as that development is done responsibly? Public land does not mean “hands off”.
Just penned a letter to the WH.
We don’t need more drilling - we need to develop Thorium energy.
I have nothing against drilling for oil or hydrocarbons in general, just Th is the way to go - for many reasons.
Hope it gets past McMaster!
The Obama administration cited provision 12(a) of Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act,, which states, “The President of the United States may, from time to time, withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands of the outer Continental Shelf.” Only that provision does not explicitly allow future executives to reverse their predecessors’ action. It will be tied up in environmental studies and court action for years.
Will they export it?
Maybe, but it will be our loss.
Th is safe, abundant, automatically shuts down if necessary, is very efficient, and will not produce weapons-grade plutonium.
It’s that last one that is the problem. The Pentagon and NeoCons in general will move Heaven and Earth to prevent that. In fact they did just that in the 1970.s. I am also pushing my local Congressman.
However, countries like Turkey, China, and at least one Nordic country are beginning to get serious about it.
You may well be right. But if/when the USA falls behind because we have expensive energy and the others have extremely cheap, abundant energy, I can say at least I tried.
A small fraction of 1% of the total acreage of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be open to drilling. No biggie, really. Do it.
Either way its public land. And if it goes into the state of Alaska coffers to be doled out as tax rebates, that does not make it free market. You are just arguing states rights on federal land. Its federal land because Alaska wanted the fed to take care of it. But no matter. Its all about how much Exxon pays for the rights so Halliburton can be paid to build a rig and the Koch brothers can build a pipe, everyone getting paid before the tax collectors of Alaska get theirs. Tell me why we we should care. Its like doing business in Russia. Tell me why this is free market. Tell me why this is not just one billionaire and his lobbyists scuffling with another billionaire and his lobbyists.
It has nothing to do with the price of oil when they are capping wells.
Because I don't want a hostile federal govt limiting the US from exploiting its own resources, creating jobs, and becoming independent of hostile foreign nations.
You seem to have a problem with successful businesses and business men.
You think that we should have stifling regulations kept in place now so that at some future date when we really do need the oil we cant get to it?
Its all cronyism. You make a deal with a government to take the oil out of government land to pipe it across government property. With kick backs and deals for campaign contributions. This is not business, this is cronyism. Its the same thing as doing “business” in Russia.
So just don’t allow access and no growth, no new jobs. That’s your solution? Not buying it.
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