Posted on 06/03/2012 7:48:45 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
The sorry saga continues, as the Obama administration is intent on getting their way in everything and by any means possible.
In January of 2011 I reported that the EPA had revoked the permit for an already-in-use coal mine in West Virginia, the Spruce Mine to be specific operated by Arch Coal, citing “violations of the Clean Air Act.” This unprecedented action struck fear in the hearts of not only coal companies who have invested millions of dollars and time into securing the necessary permits, but other business owners as well. After all, why would they want to invest in projects if with a flick of the government pen, they could be revoked.
Last March the Obama administration received a smack-down from U.S. District Judge Amy Berman who ruled Arch Coal’s Spruce Mine permit was indeed valid.
But this is far from the end of the story. Yesterday House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) held an oversight hearing about this debacle and “invited” EPA Chair Lisa Jackson to attend. But in true Obama administration form, she and others in her committee snubbed her nose at Rep. Hastings and was a no-show. From Rep. Hastings press release:
The permit was declared “valid and in full force” but the Obama Administration is challenging the ruling, [emphasis mine] again trying to destroy coal mining jobs. While officials from the Obama Administration were invited to testify, none of them chose to accept the invitation and explain their actions to exceed their authority and destroy American jobs.
Yes, the Obama administration is again stamping their feet and challenging every ruling that stands in their way of attempting to put this country back into huts with only candles to keep us warm.
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Guess what foreign oil producer he is protecting? He was bought and paid for in the beginning.
FUBO!
Thanks Texas Fossil.
Yes, the Obama administration is again stamping their feet and challenging every ruling that stands in their way of attempting to put this country back into huts with only candles to keep us warm.
who’s he kidding? King Zero would not let us have a candle or a match to light it with. Not to mention he’d order our huts destroyed and the natural landscape restored.
at our expense of course.
Omeba is against all carbon fuel: natural gas, petroleum and coal; in all its forms and origins including fracking, drilling and tar sands. Coal is their number one target.
lisa jackson is the “Wesley Mouch” of the current regime.
In owebama’s next term expect to see new executive department czars supervising the “Bureau of Equal Outcomes” or some such tripe.
This must stop.
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IIRC, This is EXACTLY what Obama promised he would do. The Liar-in-Chief has at least been truthful in this area.
Problem is, not many people were paying attention when he said it.
karmkoob
Zer0 ia against any energy use except his endledss vacations and seperate jets for his wookie.
Whomever wins the upcoming Presidential election must throwout or (preferably) jail all the nobama scumbag, moral-less, anti-American, loser czars.
“Coal is their number one target.”
Our submission is their number one target....
Hit that one dead center.
Correct.
This is the official policy of the Sierra Club. No coal, gas, petroleum of any variety.
They want us to live in caves.
They want us to live in caves.
I've long called them neo-luddites. My yougest sister is one. They live on a different planet.
“They want us to live in caves.”
I disagree.
They don’t want us to live at all.
Except them, of course, the “enlightened” ones who protect the great outdoors from evil mankind.
They see themselves as enlightened managers of these commodities, looking out for what's best for the rest of us.
Emphasis on the 'us'.
Reminds me of a FReeper tagline (can't remember who) from a few years ago: "Ted Kennedy wants us to live like the Flintstones, while he lives like the Jetsons".
More like ‘they want US to die in caves’ ... the agenda is to reduce the world population to 1 billion. And since We The People of the Un-united States of America have consumed so much of the world resources to date, we are the greatest threat to their agenda surviving. The democrat criminal enterprise is onboard with that so long as it is they who sit atop the mountains of dead their policies will bring about.
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