From the New York Times:
In his weekly radio and Internet address, the president said the administration would begin to hold annual auctions for oil and gas leases in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, a 23-million-acre tract on the North Slope. The move comes after years of demands for the auctions by industry executives and Alaska’s two senators, Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, and Mark Begich, a Democrat.
The administration will also accelerate a review of the environmental impact of possible drilling off the southern and central Atlantic coasts and will consider making some areas available for exploration. The move signals a change from current policy, which puts the entire Atlantic seaboard off limits to drilling until at least 2018.
The president also said he would extend leases already granted for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic Ocean off Alaska that had been frozen after last year’s BP spill. The extension will allow companies time to meet new safety and environmental standards without having to worry about their leases expiring.
We know, from experience, that he means not a word of it. One can safely assume that the backrooms of the regulatory agencies are already working to make certain that not one drop of oil will be extracted, ever, although Duh Gubbermint will eagerly extract the proceeds of the auctions from the oil companies.
We can see this from the EPA's behavior earlier this year.
The federal Environmental Appeals Board has refused to reconsider its earlier ruling invalidating an air quality permit Shell Alaska needed to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea this summer.
The new ruling, issued Thursday, doesn't change things for the oil company, which earlier this month announced the lack of the air permit had made it impossible to get its drilling program together in time to sink exploratory wells this summer. But environmental activists, who along with Native organizations had challenged EPA's issuance of the permit, say Shell will now have to meet even stricter air quality standards that took effect at the beginning of this year.
Brendan Cummings, senior counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity, said any new permit Shell applies for will now include meeting greenhouse gas levels -- carbon dioxide and methane -- in addition to the nitrogen dioxide restrictions that the previous permit covered.
Shell spends over four billion dollars on their Beaufort Sea project, only to have EPA spike the entire deal over an air quality permit. EPA obviously never intended to allow the project to go forward, and this final permit was simply a pretext. Four billion dollars, down the crapper, flushed by Team Obama. Over two billion of that was spent on the lease, money sent to Duh Gubbermint.
Obama Rex, as we know, makes noises people wish to hear, devoid of content or intent.
This week, he's making noises about drilling for oil. Next week, it will be something else, some other set of noises, equally vacant.
It is just OS, or does it seem just outrageous that we now live in a country where our prosperity, our ability to function, now depends upon the edict of a duplicitous President and his minions, determined to carry out his true (if undeclared) wishes?
Obama must go. And a federal bureaucracy dedicated to our impoverishment must be removed. That means taking away their money, and repealing all underlying legislation that allows these predators to operate under the guise of legality. Judges must be appointed who will send the 'activists' back to the holes from which they crawled.
Then, let the oil flow. Let the factories hum, employing our citizens. Let's produce, let's build wealth, let's control our borders, let's rebuild our culture.
Obama must be voted out, and all his minions with him. The list is long and well-known. They must all go, from the town council to the House and Senate. Every last one of them must be sent on their way; politely, firmly, unequivocally.
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