Obama Administration Loses Bid to Keep Oil Drilling Ban
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, June 24, 2010, 3:08 PM
The government lost its bid to keep the oil drilling ban in the Gulf of Mexico.
Good.
Reuters reported:
The Obama administration lost another legal skirmish on Thursday when a judge refused to put on hold his decision lifting a ban on deepwater oil drilling imposed after the worst spill in U.S. history.
After striking down the moratorium on Tuesday, a federal judge in New Orleans rejected an administration request to allow the six-month ban to stand while the government appeals his decision.
Judge Martin Feldman issued a brief order denying the stay request, pointing to his previous ruling that criticized the ban as arbitrary, far-reaching and unjustified given the impact on thousands of oil industry workers and communities.
The government has appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and can ask it to stay Feldman’s decision. It is also revising the ban to make it more flexible and possibly open some areas to drilling, but has not said when it will issue a new moratorium.
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newrouter commented:
http://www.examiner.com/x-40779-Chicago-Conservative-Issues-Examiner~y2010m6d24-Second-ruling-against-insane-oil-drilling-moratorium-wont-stop-Obama-power-grabs
D commented:
I worry about the poor judge who is doing his job!! I have to laugh and say “Ouch” Bahaaahahhahhahhah! and savor the moment because they are far and few between!. The left will now try to destroy the judge!!!
Sojourner commented:
newrouter/1 says:
“Meanwhile Judge Feldman has been receiving death threats..”
.. and in Spain, there’s this story:
“Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain’s “green jobs” energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure — was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/breaking-green-energy-company-threatens-economics-professor-with-package-of-dismantled-bomb-parts/
{..seems there’s a certain attraction between threats & the ‘tolerant left’ and things that go boom}
Auntie Em commented:
We need to stand by this Judge. He is doing what he can to save us.
He is right!
kato commented:
Once again, we see the objectives of the Blowhard. It’s not about solving the problem in the Gulf in the best way possible, but rather to use the crisis as a means to advance a left-wing politcal agenda.
This government is putting billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money into alternative energy (much of it owned by political friends and supporters of the Democratic Party). Most of these companies will likely fail, and the taxpayers will foot the bill.
Shutting down the Gulf oil becomes just one more tactic for pushing this economically stupid agenda.
Kenny Solomon commented:
I’m betting there’s an Executive Order on the way…….. Watch for it.
Paul_______ commented:
We need to drill a big hole up SOBama’s ass. No wonder flies and insects like him, he’s full of sh*t.
Freddy commented:
Missing in all of this is what should be a partial shutdown and major review of BP. Look no farther then the 700+ violations by BP over the last few years vs the handfull, about a dozen, by all of the other operators COMBINED!
I guess all of the money that BP has plowed into the Democrats, like Obama, has persuaded this administration to pretend all oil companies are IRRESPONSIBLE operators like BP.
What Obama should be doing is limiting and reviewing ALL BP activities.