Skip to comments.
Interior issues first deepwater drilling permit since BP spill
The Hill ^
| February 28, 2011
| Ben Geman
Posted on 02/28/2011 2:31:53 PM PST by jazusamo
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
The fact that the secretary has to come to Capitol Hill to testify before lawmakers seems to have suddenly focused his attention on the permittingNah, must be a coincidence. /sarc
1
posted on
02/28/2011 2:32:07 PM PST
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
Boy I was worried for a while, but 1 permit in a year gee they will get this oil economy going soon...BRAVO!
2
posted on
02/28/2011 2:35:05 PM PST
by
JohnD9207
(John McCain is a proud Ted Kennedy conservative!)
To: jazusamo
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
3
posted on
02/28/2011 2:35:12 PM PST
by
PilotDave
(No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
To: jazusamo
Nope, now the administration can say without having to cross its fingers that they are proactive in helping us reduce out dependence on foreign oil and ARE permitting new drilling.
4
posted on
02/28/2011 2:35:19 PM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: jazusamo
“Initial drilling on this well began April 16, 2010, in 6,500 feet water depth, and the activities were suspended June 12, 2010, under the temporary drilling moratorium, issued in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill, BOEMRE said in a summary of the permit approval.”
So, they are having to permit wells that were already drilling before the moratorium - insane! We need to immediately permit all proposals and get the show on the road.
To: jazusamo
"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, 3 times is enemy action." Auric Goldfinger
6
posted on
02/28/2011 2:35:49 PM PST
by
de.rm
(Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.)
To: jazusamo
Must be a Muslim Oil Company
7
posted on
02/28/2011 2:36:01 PM PST
by
Gaffer
To: jazusamo
>>This permit was issued for one simple reason: the
operator successfully demonstrated that it can drill its deepwater well safely and that it is capable of containing a subsea blowout if it were to occur check cleared.
Fixed it.
8
posted on
02/28/2011 2:37:51 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(You CAN get blood from a stone, if you throw it hard enough.)
To: Cyber Liberty
9
posted on
02/28/2011 2:40:30 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: jazusamo
This permit was issued for one simple reason: the operator successfully demonstrated that it can drill its deepwater well safely and that it is capable of containing a subsea blowout if it were to occur. We expect further deepwater permits to be approved in coming weeks and months based on the same process that led to the approval of this permit, he added. What damnable hubris! No mention of the Judge's contempt order against the department, no mention of the congressional hearings. And yet will this man lose his job, his pension, his future, his business, his house, his wife and the respect of his children?
Tens of thousands have because of this spokesman and all his co-workers in that tyrannical bureaucracy.
10
posted on
02/28/2011 2:41:09 PM PST
by
bvw
To: Cyber Liberty
11
posted on
02/28/2011 2:41:51 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
How much of a contribution did this cost?
12
posted on
02/28/2011 2:44:59 PM PST
by
luv2ndamend
(Same party, different letter.)
To: bvw
It stood out there was no mention of the contempt by Salazar of judge Feldman’s order. Salazar should have been jailed after he issued the second drilling moratorium.
13
posted on
02/28/2011 2:45:24 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
No drilling will occur while B. Obama is in the White House. The man is moving the US towards a great crisis
which, he hopes, will usher in the Age of Marx.
14
posted on
02/28/2011 2:46:31 PM PST
by
Hans
To: jazusamo
15
posted on
02/28/2011 2:49:29 PM PST
by
Truth29
To: jazusamo
Big contributor to the 2012 campaign? Rat congress peoples siblings on the board? Rat congress people heavily invested in company?
To: jazusamo
This is a signal that Interior intends to go very slow.
17
posted on
02/28/2011 2:52:42 PM PST
by
bvw
To: jazusamo
unexpected permit ping...........
0bambi making strategic decision on deep water permit...
Due to the complexity involved ...a coin flip is used.
18
posted on
02/28/2011 2:53:03 PM PST
by
spokeshave
(WTF....the only thing 0bambi's investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy.)
To: Hans
will usher in the Age of Marx.<<<<<<
could result in a bunch of dead communists!!
19
posted on
02/28/2011 2:53:50 PM PST
by
timetostand
(Ya say ya wanna revolution -- OK!)
To: Truth29
I know nothing about drilling but it sounds like the permit is to drill around the plugged well to enable a continuance of drilling. It may have something to do with an enhanced safety procedure I guess.
20
posted on
02/28/2011 2:57:49 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson