Posted on 07/11/2012 7:39:40 AM PDT by Connectikate
Like this wasn't exactly the way we expected this to go...Remember last year when the admin was all about how awesome the drilling jobs in Alaska were? Not so fast, buddy.
Now, though, the re-energized environmental lobby is pressuring the Administration to drag its feet on the OCS exploration. At the heart of the environmental lobbys argument is a false choice between economic development and environmental preservation. In fact, Shells efforts to advance scientific understanding of the Arctics oceans, wildlife and coastal areas has been praised by the Alaska SeaLife Center, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Obamas Department of the Interior.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The administration isn’t caving to them, the administration is completely sympatico with them. They believe, and are committed to, the same crap as the fringe environmental groups.
YOU said exactly what I was thinking....
The environmental lobby is just another member of the tribe that wants to rid the country of it’s resources.
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