drpepperTX
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Message Posted: Aug 10, 2012 2:48:03 PM
Oh my, there goes teafertwo with the "Halliburton Loophole" myth. LMAO.
Only the laziest people continue to perpetuate taht one.
FACT: Hydraulic fracturing was never in its history been regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
FACT: The 2005 energy bill simply reaffirmed the fact that states were best equipped to regulate the fracturing process.
FACT: The 2005 energy bill passed with 74 yes votes in the U.S. Senate, including ones from the top Democrat on the Energy Committee; current Interior secretary Ken Salazar, then a senator from Colorado; and then-Sen. Barack Obama. In the U.S. House, 75 Democrats supported the final bill, including the top Democratic members on both the Energy & Commerce and Resources Committees.
SHHH, tea does not want you to know these facts. :^)
And of course now the industry has come up with the most comprehensive drilling disclosure plan ever. You can see it all at here
[Edited by: drpepperTX at 8/10/2012 5:49:19 PM EST]
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teafortwo
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Message Posted: Aug 10, 2012 2:17:47 PM
Seems Dub'ya was a busy fellow in the last years in office.
In addition to burying the Halliburton loophole in federal legislation to exclude frackers from the Clean Water Act?
FROM THIS ARTICLE:
During the administration of former President George W. Bush there was great pressure on the BLM to expedite oil and gas drilling on public lands.
A Government Accountability Office report documented reassignment of BLM biologists and inspectors to the permitting offices to push through approvals.
That pace quickened in the administration’s final year. In the fall 2008, BLM approved six resource management plans in Utah that opened the way for the sale of 77 leases, covering 130,225 acres in December and in Colorado it opened 52,000 acres of the iconic Roan Plateau to drilling.
Both decision ended-up in protracted lawsuits filed by environmental groups.
With less than a week left in office, the Bush administration issued a leasing plan for commercial oil-shale development.
When former Colorado U.S. Senator Ken Salazar took over as President Obama’s interior secretary he immediately announced that the oil-shale rule would be reviewed.
“We are going to take a look at all the midnight actions of the Bush administration and see what needs to be changed,” Salazar declared. The oil-shale rules were eventually rolled back.
Then the oil and gas leasing rules were overhauled adding a few steps – including an environmental assessment and public comment before acreage is even auctioned. The goal was to reduce the administrative protests and lawsuits that followed almost every lease sale in the West, bureau officials said.
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PDQBlues
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Message Posted: Aug 10, 2012 1:39:26 PM
Who owns the West? I suspect it's the same idiots who own our government: those with the most money.
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drpepperTX
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Texas
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 8:49:22 PM
Thank goodness for private lands drilling!
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Rich1430
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 8:44:26 PM
The environMENTAL ecoterrorist (EPA) need to be shut down.
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carranco
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 7:02:16 PM
The skinny punk experiment ends in November.
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RONALD777
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Houston
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 6:18:19 PM
Once Obama is out, let the drilling resume!
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BuckyTJones
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 5:51:33 PM
Extremes Own this country.
When we use too find a happy medium that's when this country was at its best.
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Yooperheart
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 5:42:28 PM
Toss up, let the players sort it out.
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MidNJ
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 5:03:46 PM
From the article;
“Total oil production from federal lands and waters has increased 13 percent during the first three years of this (The Obama) Administration, compared to the last three years of the previous (The Bush) Administration,” BLM spokesman Blake Androff, said."
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Interesting, very interesting!!!
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jodybull
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 4:43:50 PM
Who's got the sticky fingers in all of this mess???
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mitt4prez
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 4:33:15 PM
No, the truth does not lie in the middle. The Won frequently brags about reviving the spirit that built the Golden Gate bridge, for example. But his rapacious gang does all it can to block any type of project that doesn't pay off to the gang. So, too, with drilling. "Rebalancing of interests" = "tame bureaucrat who can hold up projects and get a cushy Green lobbying job after he's through screwing the public while in office.
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csblesson
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 4:26:37 PM
Battle of liers both have vested interest
[Edited by: csblesson at 8/9/2012 7:27:38 PM EST]
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wildddkattt80
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 4:19:14 PM
And the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
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Meowmy
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 4:12:04 PM
If they could assure that they would follow all the rules and regulations, there wouldn't be a problem.
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playtimeCLE
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 2:37:53 PM
There is always two sides or more to every story.
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Jeff1944
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 1:20:49 PM
North Dakota's boom is on public land. Thank goodness. Let the greenies freeze together in the dark this winter!
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fedupMN
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 1:10:31 PM
who cares
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humblepie
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Message Posted: Aug 9, 2012 1:09:10 PM
sure not the citizens thats for sure
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