posted August 13, 2011 05:11 PM            

Everytime O'Bomber turns around a federal judge or appeals court is slapping down more of his nonsense.

The O'Bomber plan was to slow down drilling for oil and natural gas while also increasing the costs to oil and gas companies by putting them through another review process...in addition to the review process which had already been done.

Federal judge throws out Obama drilling rules
MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press
Friday, August 12, 2011

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilling on federal land.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled in favor of a petroleum industry group, the Western Energy Alliance, in its lawsuit against the federal government, including Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

The ruling reinstates Bush-era expedited oil and gas drilling under provisions called categorical exclusions on federal lands nationwide, Freudenthal said.

The government argued that oil and gas companies had no case because they didn't show how the new rules, implemented by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service last year, had created delays and added to the cost of drilling.

Freudenthal rejected that argument.

"Western Energy has demonstrated through its members recognizable injury," she said. "Those injuries are supported by the administrative record."

An attorney for the government declined to comment but Kathleen Sgamma, director of government and public affairs for the Denver-based Western Energy Alliance, praised the ruling.

"She completely discounted the government's argument that the harm was speculative," Sgamma said of the judge.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 allows the BLM and Forest Service to invoke categorical exclusions and skip new environmental review for drilling permits under certain circumstances.

The circumstances include instances where companies plan to disturb relatively little ground and environmental review already has been done for that area. A categorical exclusion also can be invoked when additional drilling is planned at a well pad where drilling has occurred within the previous five years.

Categorical exclusions were widely used throughout the West — especially in the gas boom states of Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico — until last year.

In Wyoming, the BLM invoked categorical exclusions for 87 percent of the new gas wells drilled in the Upper Green River Basin between 2007 and 2010. Those drilling permits added up: Close to 3,000 over those three years in the basin's Jonah Field and Pinedale Anticline gas fields.

The Jonah Field and Pinedale Anticline ranked fifth and sixth for gas production in the U.S. in 2009.

posted August 17, 2011 12:26 PM            

Of course, leftists will never forgive Bush for beating their little wooden headed prince Algore.

posted August 19, 2011 12:32 PM            

Secondly, you're factually wrong. I did provide ample evidence to back up my claim. I told you very specifically how to find all the evidence you could ever want. That I didn't post those myriad articles is not proof that they don't exist.

posted August 19, 2011 08:43 PM            

Horse Feathers

posted August 19, 2011 11:07 PM            

I apologize for missing "your evidence" acoustic.

Please post it again right here.

"american thinker anyone"...Node

posted August 20, 2011 10:51 AM            

A federal judge has ordered the Secret Service to release eight months of White House visitor logs it had previously kept hidden, an estimated "tens of thousands" of records from Obama's first year in office.

U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell – an Obama appointee – earlier this week ruled in favor of the government watchdog organization Judicial Watch, which had argued the Jan. 20-Sept. 15, 2009, visitor logs were agency records subject to public inspection through the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA......
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=335569

posted August 20, 2011 09:45 PM            

she's a former bush and clinton administration insider who understands that the president either goes along or gets dragged along...and that we are being robbed for the sake of capital and control.

she has been talking about this despite death threats, umpteen tax audits and other attempts to intimidate her, for years.

remember pug winokur? his testimony to congress re enron was spookily similar to murdoch's before parliament this summer... http://dissidentvoice.org/Articles/FittsSmugPug.htm

posted August 20, 2011 10:04 PM            

Global investors will purchase our discounted natural resources and infrastructure by reinvesting the trillions of dollars that have been stolen from our pension funds through dot.com and Enron-type pump and dump fraud (the recent $1.4 billion settlement with Wall Street indicated that investors have lost $8 trillion) and through money stolen from federal accounts (for more on the officially documented $3.3 trillion in "undocumentable adjustments" from the Department of Defense (DOD) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (see Appendix I).