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[Environmental]
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4/17/2009
4:40:48 pm EDT
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Court Blocks Bush-Era Alaska Offshore Drilling
Author: AP Source: MSNBC
Title: COURT BLOCKS BUSH-ERA ALASKA OFFSHORE DRILLING
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Bush administration did not properly study the environmental impact of expanding oil and gas drilling off the Alaska coast and shelved a program to find new reserves.
A three-judge panel in Washington found that the Bush-era Interior Department failed to consider the effect on the environment and marine life before it began the process in August 2005 to expand an oil and gas leasing program in the Beaufort, Bering, and Chukchi seas.
The appeals court ordered the department, now run by President Barack Obama's appointee Ken Salazar, to analyze the areas to determine environmental risks and potential damage before moving ahead with the program.
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| Let's Bring It Down A Notch And Think.. | Apr 20th. at 12:19:02 am EDT
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Reaver (Lebanon, Oregon) - Email Me
A country that controls it's own energy sources is a much more secure nation. Regardless of where our oil comes from, if it is from the Saudi's or the Canadians, it is still not OUR oil. Yes, American oil companies would benefit - by the way, the Saudi's control their oil, not American companies, although they get a percentage of profit as per their contracts with the various governments. That is called business, and that is how companies stay alive to contribute to the general economy of a nation.
Have any of you ever looked at what is "endangered" in the ANWAR? The pipelines don't cover ANY of the carabou migratory patterns. And, if you think nuclear is so bad, why do the French have so many "clean" and safe nuclear facilities?
I know it would be great if we could all live on farms out in the country and use horses and oxen to create our livelyhoods, but that is not possible - who would create the computers to surf the web with, who would wire our houses, where would the electricity come from - and where would all the plastic come from for our computers and most of the components in our modern cars - or bicycles, for that matter? And before you start screaming about oil from beans, it is still too expensive to use extensively.
And now that I have said my piece and irritated some, I will return to my duty, watching the darkness while others dance around the fire.
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| Useless | Apr 19th. at 1:59:15 pm EDT
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Horned1 (New Sweden, Maine) - Email Me - Web
This isn't even a bandage on the problem. We need to realize that it is our lifestyle that is destroying mother Earth every day, and it is that root cause that must change. Are we strong enough to let go of this addictive way of life? I don't know, but I do know that if we as a species want to survive, the only way is to stop living as if the world belongs to us.
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| Listen A Bit More Closely | Apr 19th. at 12:10:16 pm EDT
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Lorca (Longview, Washington) - Email Me
...to Mr. Pickens and you realize that what he is looking for is a government handout. He wants the taxpayers to foot the bill to install the improvements in the electrical distribution grid that will be required to deploy wind-generated electricity on a large scale. Oh, he's all for wind power, and who wouldn't be, if they could sell it on a network that they don't have to build and maintain.
Same story, different day. Socialize the expense, privatize the profits. No thank you, Mr. Pickens.
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| WE WOULDN'T NEED.... | Apr 18th. at 5:27:51 am EDT
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Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me
to drill offshore if we had listened to Mr. T Boone Pickens.... THERE is a man with a plan. I agree that if we HAVE to drill, just do it SAFELY, please! But we have wind, hydro and solar capacity coming out our doodahs's - let's USE it! IMHO nuclear power just ain't worth the risk it involves, and whattheheck do you do with the leftover spent rods that remain radioactive like, FOREVER? **shakes her head** we REALLY somewhere along the line have to break the big oil companies stranglehold on the Americanb public and develop other renewable means of generating power.....
Love to all
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| This Is Good - For Everyone | Apr 18th. at 3:09:36 am EDT
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nasionnaich (Stanchfield, Minnesota) - Email Me
Good. Less danger of a massive oil spill off the Alaskan coastline, more protection of the Environment, and perhaps a more Livable Earth.
There actually was a study -- many studies, in fact, and they were very much in-depth...but they were largely ignored by the Bush Administration and Republican Conservatives in general, because the drilling would have supposedly "ended the dependence on foreign (meaning "Middle East") oil". Except the U.S. gets the majority of its oil from Canada and right here in the U.S.
No, Bush's off-shore oil drilling was to help bolster the U.S. Oil Companies -- which already own all of the wells in the U.S., and many in Canada, South America and in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, etc) . It was also to help ensure that the U.S. remains dependent on oil, period, because without oil production/use, people such as Rex W. Tillerson (Chairman & CEO of ExxonMobile) would have to find another job.....
--nasionnaich
ok, I don't like to use Wikipedia, but here's an article on Exxon Mobile. Perhaps the links in the article will be of some use
[Web LINK]
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| *** | Apr 17th. at 10:56:59 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
I assume, though I might be wrong, that this was one of those hurried last minute legislations that he pushed before leaving office, since there didn't seem to be much actual study- or care- behind it.
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| ... | Apr 17th. at 7:42:40 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
"A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Bush administration did not properly study the environmental impact of expanding oil and gas drilling off the Alaska coast and shelved a program to find new reserves."
What took them so long to realize the obvious?
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