The reasons included possible harm to a village 70 miles away and the exhaust from the boat that will service the platform.
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.
So basically the reason was -- No, because we said so.
At stake is an estimated 27 billion barrels of oil. That’s how much the U. S. Geological Survey believes is in the U.S. portion of the Arctic Ocean. For perspective, that represents two and a half times more oil than has flowed down the Trans Alaska pipeline throughout its 30-year history.
The United States of America remains the only country in the world that refuses to use its own natural resources. The primary reason for our economic success for the past four hundred years lies completely with the abundance of resources in our varied lands.
The Energy Department was created specifically to wean us from foreign oil. Now we are more dependent than ever. Five years ago the Democrats refused to open offshore oil fields to drilling. They banned drilling in the shale fields of the west. They explained that it would take at least five years for those resources to have an effect. The Democrats pushed taxpayer moneys into fanciful, not yet developed "green energy". Today we find ourselves slowly strangling in national debt and choking on high gas prices. I am not a big fan of 'what if', but what if we HAD started drilling our own oil five years ago? Do you think gas would be at current price levels?
Gas prices were in the $1.80 range when Obama took office. Now prices are at $4.00 around the nation. Is this the hope and change you were looking for?
I sure hope things change.
ReplyDeleteI keep thinking the revolution starts at about $5/gallon. By that measure, we'll be there before Memorial Day.
It is Treason.
ReplyDeleteNo, Ed, it isn't. Treason is very narrowly defined by the Constitution. Art. III, Sect. 3.
ReplyDeleteIf we're going to sling mud, let's use the correct terminology.
By now I would imagine the BanKhazars & Bankstaz have convinced Washington that "treason" is "anything that keeps them from borrowing, bailing out bankahz and waging 'kinetic military actions' for Israel" (a/k/a "terrorism").
ReplyDeleteI remember Clinton not allowing drilling to expand saying it would take 10 years before we could pump any oil,that was over 15 years ago, thanks asshole for nothing!
ReplyDeleteNow the current "asshole in chief" is saying the same thing.
Yeah, Nathan, I know it does not fit the narrow definition.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it then, when the president and his appointees act contrary to the interests of this country?
"The Energy Department was created specifically to wean us from foreign oil. Now we are more dependent than ever."
ReplyDeleteExactly, which is why this gargantuan Department of Useless should be done away with.