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Obama Administration to Pass New Laws to Limit Fracking …(Obama Kills More Jobs)

by Admin on May 5, 2012 in Energy, Global Warming Hoax, Green Energy Gimmick, Liberal Propaganda, Obama Foreign Policy, Obama Propaganda, Obama's Economy, Obama's Radical Ideology, Oil and Gas with 1 Comment

Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression and does not intend to change his position anytime soon…
The Obama Administration is set to pass new rules and regulations to limit the fracking industry, slow production, and kill jobs.
MyFOXNY reported, via Free Republic:

The Obama administration will soon issue sweeping new environmental safety rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal land, setting a new standard that natural gas wells on all lands eventually could follow.

The rules, which are likely to be unveiled by the Interior Department within days, are designed to address concerns that the method of extracting natural gas known as “fracking” can contaminate groundwater. Among other things, they create new guidelines for constructing wells and treating waste water, according to a draft of the proposed rules reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

At the same time, the department loosened a proposed requirement for companies to disclose the chemicals they use to extract natural gas from the earth, after the industry complained an earlier version would slow drilling too much.

The change, which disappointed environmentalists, is a fresh sign that the administration is heeding industry concerns after Republican complaints of over-regulation.

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency gave the industry two years to comply with new air quality standards for oil and natural gas wells after the industry complained it would be difficult to meet new standards. Initially, the department wanted energy companies to specify in advance which chemicals they put into fracking fluids.

Under the draft rules, they would instead have to identify the chemicals after they have already put them into the ground. In the weeks leading up to the proposal of the rules, several oil and natural gas companies, including Exxon Mobil and Apache Corp. met with top White House officials to weigh in on possible changes.

Apache declined to comment. ExxonMobil declined to comment.

The Natural Resources Defense Council praised the administration for reducing the potential for contamination under the new rules but said it was disappointed the department had loosened the chemical disclosure requirement.

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RUSSIA HIRES EXXON MOBIL TO GET OIL OBAMA DOESN’T WANT

by Admin on April 24, 2012 in Energy, EPA, Sarah Palin, Tyrrany with No comments

Here’s the picture—Alaska contains a wealth of oil both on land, in ANWR, and off shore in its outer continental shelf. But President Obama and the Democrat party are staunchly opposed to allowing us to avail ourselves of it. And via the Keystone Pipeline, Canada could supply nearly 1,000,000 barrels of oil a day that we’re not getting from Alaska, but Obama and the Democrats have stopped that too.As a result, the price we’re paying per-gallon for gasoline is steadily climbing, and other countries are choosing to go where we won’t for oil. Thus the oil Canada was going to sell us via Keystone will now go to China and oil up near the Arctic will be going to Russia. And the company Russia has hired to do the extraction is none other than Exxon Mobil.

Think about how backward things are under Obama—the largest oil company in America is going to be drilling in waters around the Arctic where they expect to find 85 billion barrels in recoverable oil. And instead of sending it to Texas refineries, and thereafter to gas stations across America, the oil will be sent to Russia and refined for their use.

By the way, if extracted at the rate of 1 million barrels a day, 85 billion barrels of oil would last for 85,000 days.  85,000 days equals well over 200 years.  Yet here we are, listening to Obama telling us the future is one of wind farms, electric cars, and a companies like Solyndra.

Perhaps we’ll get lucky and Russia will sell us some of their oil. If Obama keeps us in this energy stranglehold we’re going to need it.

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“If I Wanted America to Fail”

by Admin on April 23, 2012 in Energy, Global Warming Hoax, Green Energy Gimmick with 1 Comment

A brilliant new video from the folks over at Americans for Limited Government

The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism—it’s become an economic suicide pact. And we’re here to challenge it. On Earth Day, visit www.freemarketamerica.org.

Power Grab for Natural Gas – New Executive Order

by Admin on April 15, 2012 in Energy, Obama's Economy, Obama's Radical Ideology, Obama's Transparency with No comments

Via: Canada Free Press

White House: We must interfere and impose federal power and control over the states. We cannot let cheap natural gas interfere with our plan for expensive alternative sources of energy

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Natural gas production by countries (Romania in red) in cubic meters per year (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It was Friday the 13. If you are superstitious, then the new Executive Order issued yesterday,  “Supporting Safe and Responsible Development of Unconventional Domestic Natural Gas Resources” must give you pause.

Because natural gas produced 25 percent of our energy in 2011, the federal government must control this source of energy in order to deliver on the promise of making gasoline prices rise to $10 per gallon, bankrupt the coal industry, and cause energy prices to skyrocket.The order states, “While natural gas production is carried out by private firms, and States are the primary regulators of onshore oil and gas activities, the Federal Government has an important role to play by regulating oil and gas activities on public and Indian trust lands, encouraging greater use of natural gas in transportation, supporting research and development aimed at improving the safety of natural gas development and transportation activities, and setting sensible, cost-effective public health and environmental standards to implement Federal law and augment State safeguards.”

The Department of DefenseAn interagency working group is tasked to “facilitate coordinated Administration policy efforts to support safe and responsible unconventional domestic natural gas development.” This working group bureaucracy will be chaired by the Director of the Domestic Policy Council and has several curious members that have no direct involvement with natural gas production:

  • the Department of the Interior
  • the Department of Agriculture
  • the Department of Commerce
  • the Department of Health and Human Services
  • the Department of Transportation
  • the Department of Energy
  • the Department of Homeland Security
  • the Environmental Protection Agency
  • the Council on Environmental Quality
  • the Office of Science and Technology Policy
  • the Office of Management and Budget
  • the National Economic Council

The Chair may invite other agencies or offices to participate in the working group.  The working group will “support [read control] the safe and responsible production of domestic unconventional natural gas by performing the following functions: coordinate agency policy activities, share scientific, environmental, technical and economic information, coordination with federal government in long-term planning, and “consult with other agencies as appropriate.”

The White House Blog explains this new bureaucracy as a step in eliminating “redundancy.” What is there redundant about each state controlling and exploring their natural gas? The federal government is concerned, since natural gas volumetric exploration in 2011 was so large, it eclipsed the all-time high production record of 1973, it must “ensure that we can successfully tap this critical resource for decades to come, we must develop it safely and responsibly.” Translation, we must control it and reduce its production so that our air and water are safe according to the EPA dictates. This is interesting because natural gas is one of the cleanest sources of energy.

The White House Blog continues, “At the same time, as the administration develops a framework for safe and responsible production that builds on steps already taken by states across the country, we must ensure that those efforts continue to happen in a coordinated way.”

There we have it; we cannot let states continue business as usual. We must interfere and impose federal power and control over the states. We cannot let cheap natural gas interfere with our plan for expensive alternative sources of energy. Fossil fuels and fracking are tampering with our power grab plans.

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Two Keystone Pipeline Proposals Rejected by Senate

by Admin on March 8, 2012 in Energy, Global Warming Hoax, Green Energy Gimmick, Obama Foreign Policy, Obama Propaganda, Obama Ties, Obama's Economy, Obama's Media, Obama's Radical Ideology, Obama's Transparency with No comments

Via: Roll Call

An amendment to the surface transportation bill offered by Sen. Ron Wyden (left) regarding the Keystone XL oil pipeline failed on the Senate floor this afternoon.

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo

Updated: 5:21 p.m.

The Senate rejected competing partisan proposals to expedite approval of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

The GOP proposal, offered by Sen.John Hoeven (N.D.), would have granted approval of the pipeline and would not require any further environmental reviews by the State Department. The amendment, offered to the Senate surface transportation bill, needed 60 votes to pass but failed 56-42. Eleven Democrats joined the Republicans voting for the amendment.

A Democratic alternative from Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) failed 34-64, with 13 Democrats voting with Republicans against the amendment.

Wyden’s amendment would have required the pipeline permit application to be approved or denied within 90 days of the completion of all analyses required by current law and executive orders. The Wyden proposal would also have mandated that all project construction materials be made in the U.S., and it would have banned companies from exporting oil from the pipeline. One of the key purposes of the pipeline is to allow TransCanada to export the oil extracted from Canadian tar sands to other countries.

Last year’s short-term deal to extend the payroll tax cut required the White House to make a decision on approval of the pipeline by the end of February. President Barack Obama rejected the project because he said the deadline to did not provide enough time to adequately review it. The White House recently announced that TransCanada would start building part of the pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas, and said it welcomed the company’s intention to reapply for the Canada-U.S. border permit.

The pipeline would transport an additional 830,000 barrels of oil per day to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast, including 100,000 barrels a day from the Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana, supporters argue.

In his quest to overturn the president’s February decision, Hoeven secured an opinion from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service confirming Congress’s constitutional authority to approve the project.

Democrats who joined Hoeven in supporting the amendment primarily hailed from states with robust energy industries. They were Sens. Max Baucus (Mont.), Mark Begich (Alaska), Bob Casey (Pa.), Kent Conrad (N.D.), Kay Hagan (N.C.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Mark Pryor (Ark.), Jon Tester (Mont.) and Jim Webb (Va.).

Obama made calls to several lawmakers in order to ensure the Hoeven amendment would be defeated, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed today.

House and Senate Republicans charged that the president’s lobbying blitz would have the effect of killing the jobs that would be created by the pipeline construction project. They also accused him of undermining his own “all-of-the-above” energy strategy.

But Carney said the White House has made clear its position on the “purely ideological and political efforts to attach legislation regarding the Keystone pipeline to whatever some Members of Congress fancy at the time. … It is false advertising to suggest that somehow passing legislation and having it made law that Keystone ought to be approved is somehow A) going to have any impact on the price of gas at the pump … or B) is responsible policy in any way when there isn’t even a proposed route for that pipeline to travel.”

The Senate also defeated an amendment from Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) that would have delayed for 15 months Environmental Protection Agency rules regarding industrial boiler emissions. The delay is needed, supporters argued, in order to give the EPA time to rewrite the rules and to provide additional time for the facilities to comply after the rules are finalized. The amendment needed 60 votes to pass but failed 52-46.

A proposal from Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), which was defeated 46-52, would have increased oil and gas development by allowing the sale of leases throughout the Outer Continental Shelf, including off the coasts of Florida, California and Virginia.

Correction: March 8, 2012

An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that 11 Democrats voted against the Hoeven amendment.

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DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz: Republicans Will Do Nothing To Lower Gas Prices Because They Only Want “More Drilling” For Oil…

by Admin on February 23, 2012 in Energy, Global Warming Hoax, Green Energy Gimmick, Obama Propaganda, Obama's Economy with No comments

Via: Zip: Errr, how else can we extract it from the Earth? — Osmosis? She also makes the absurd claim Republicans want America “dependent on foreign oil” when her leader prevents us from tapping our resources.  Defies logic.

(The Hill) — Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Thursday that GOP White House hopefuls will do nothing to help consumers at the gasoline pump.

The Florida congresswoman’s comments come hours before President Obama is slated to give an energy speech in Miami aimed partly at rebutting GOP political attacks over rising gas prices. She said the GOP plans would keep the United States dependent on foreign oil.

“The Republican field, like Mitt Romney, thinks that we just need to remain tethered and dependent on foreign oil because all they would do is more and more drilling, which is a very shortsighted approach and it would do nothing to prevent people who are struggling to put $80 into their gas tanks to be able to make sure that that’s more affordable,” Wasserman Schultz said on MSNBC.

“And that is another example of how they are economically out of touch,” she said.

Wasserman Schultz, on MSNBC Thursday, defended Obama’s energy policy.

“President Obama has employed an all-of-the-above strategy. We have more domestic energy production in the United States today than we have ever had. We have investments in alternative energy, we are making sure that when it comes to solar and wind and other kinds of renewable fuels that Barack Obama is talking about, making sure we make those kinds of investments,” she said.

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Campaign against Canadian Keystone XL pipeline driven by US foundation millions

by Admin on February 20, 2012 in Energy, Global Warming Hoax, Green Energy Gimmick with No comments

A slide from a 2008 Rockefeller Brothers Fund presentation calling for a massive funding campaign to scuttle pipelines bringing oil from Canada's tar sands to the United States

A Powerpoint presentation obtained by The Daily Caller shows that during a July 2008 meeting, the $789 million Rockefeller Brothers Fund proposed to coordinate and fund a dozen environmental and anti-corporate activist groups’ efforts to scuttle pipelines carrying tar sands oil from Canada to the United States.

The most recent incarnation of that pipeline plan, the Keystone XL project, was the subject of intense public controversy until the Obama administration rejected it in January.

The 2008 meeting consisted of presentations from Rockefeller Brothers Fund program officer Michael Northrop, Corporate Ethics International Executive Director Michael Marx, Natural Resources Defense Council attorney Susan Casey-Lefkowitz and the director of a Canadian activist group called the Pembina Institute.

(RELATED: See the 2008 Powerpoint slideshow)

Northrop’s presentation described the extraction of oil from Canada’s vast tar sands oil deposits as a threat to environmentalists’ efforts to curb global warming. He outlined a ”globally significant response” consisting of a “network of leading US and Canadian NGOs” engaged in a “coordinated campaign structure.”

TheDC made repeated requests for comments from Northrup, Marx and Casey-Lefkowitz. None of them responded.

The subject of U.S. interests raining money on environmental organizations north of the border is a front-burner issue in Canada.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/20/campaign-against-canadian-keystone-xl-pipeline-driven-by-us-foundation-millions/#ixzz1mwVMQIIl

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Craig, Colorado: A case study in energy regulation gone mad.

by Admin on February 17, 2012 in Energy, EPA, Global Warming Hoax, Green Energy Gimmick, Obama Propaganda, Obama's Economy with 1 Comment

A Line of Sight, by Bob Beauprez

When Barack Obama promised that his non-energy energy policies would “bankrupt” anyone foolish enough to try to operate a coal-fired power plant, he talked as if he would only inflict pain on some inanimate structure of concrete and steel .   Clever politician that he is, he depersonalized his war on fossil fuels all in the name of saving the planet.

What he didn’t mention, of course, is that real people work at these power plants, and real people have jobs harvesting and transporting coal, natural gas, and oil from deep inside the earth so that many more people may have sustained supplies of affordable energy to maintain a quality of life and productive work places.  Furthermore, in energy producing communities any family or small business not directly connected to energy is still dependent on the health and vitality of the energy industry for their survival, too.

Craig is a town of just 10,000 people in the northwestern corner of Colorado.  It is home to one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the country.  A combination of new federal and state punitive regulations mistakenly aimed at the industry is threatening the very existence of the town and its citizens.

Below is a link to a short video that accurately represents the importance of a vibrant coal industry to everyone in that community.   It’s not just brick and mortar that government over regulation will destroy – it’s the lives of real people like these.  The impact of these new policies is only just beginning to be felt, but you can already see the severe consequences to the good folks who live here.   Worst of all, as the video mentions, most of these new destructive policies are based on falsehoods and phony myths.  With today’s clean technology, fossil fuels are not the enemy.   Given the chance, people in places like Craig would supply vastly greater amounts of affordable, dependable, domestically produced clean energy all across America.

Click here to watch The Perfect Storm over Craig


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Canadian Resources Minister: Soros ordered pipeline blocked.

by Admin on February 16, 2012 in Energy, Obama Ties, Obama's Economy, Occupier and Chief, Soros with 1 Comment

Via: Council of Conservative Citizens

Except for a small well financed minority of the far-left, Americans overwhelmingly support the Keystone pipeline expansion.

Canadian Resources Minister Joe Oliver says Barack Obama blocked the pipeline deal on behalf of radical left-wing Billionaire George

Soros has pumped millions into American far-left groups, many of which used some of his money to campaign for Barack Obama.

Barack Obama vetoed a major oil pipeline deal that would have brought thousands of new jobs and decreased our oil dependency on the Middle East.Obama is ensuring that unemployment stays high, gas prices climb, and America keeps sending tens of billions to Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. The so-called “environmental concerns” are completely unfounded.

The liberal Washington Post called Obama’s veto “an act of national insanity.” Liberal TIME magazine attacked Obama and said the veto means Canadian oil will go to China and Americans will continue buying oil from Saudi Arabia.

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver recently blamed billionaire agitator George Soros, who funds extreme left-wing causes in North America, Europe, and Central Asia. He also fingered the US based Tides Foundation.

The Tides Foundation is a left-wing not for profit with a budget in the hundreds of millions. They are most known for promoting the global warming hoax.

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Obama’s Insider Deals at the Energy Department

by Admin on February 15, 2012 in Energy, Obama Foreign Policy, Obama Propaganda, Obama Ties, Obama's Economy, Obama's Transparency, Obamacare, Tyrrany with 1 Comment

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