Obama withdraws Alaska's Bristol Bay from oil drilling

Associated Press Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ^ | Dec 16, 2014 | Associated Press

[Jet Jaguar]

President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he's removing more than 52,000 square miles of waters off Alaska's coast from consideration for oil and gas exploration or drilling.

The president said in a video announcement that Bristol Bay and nearby waters, covering an area roughly the size of Florida, would be withdrawn from consideration for petroleum leases. He called Bristol Bay one of the country's great natural resources and a massive economic engine.

[ogen hal]

One has to wonder when he will nuke a large urban area...or two.

[faithhopecharity]

he’s been using the great USAF to defend the Iranian IslamoNazi ICBM nuclear bomb arsenal development works...
(while openly threatening war against any nations that seek to take them out)

and Iran has repeatedly announced USA as its Number 1 target (its a tossup whether the Arabian Oil fields or Israel are numbers 2 and 3, probably the oil first though since that’s real money and power)

[cpdiii]

When I worked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, fishermen would come out to our drilling rigs and platforms to fish. The platforms in effect were artificial reefs with abundant seaweed and animal life growing on the platform legs. In effect it became a food source for the fish.

My conclusion is simple, a fish with a brain that is less than 1% of Obams’s brain is obviously smarter than Obama when it comes to drilling rigs and platforms and where to eat lunch.

[Cen-Tejas]

If Palin were still governor some Assistant Attorney Generals in Juneau would be up late tonight and the Original Petition would be filed by 8:01 am tomorrow.

Obviously Obama and Jarrett et al are engaged n an all out campaign to do as much liberal damage as they possibly can in the next two years aided by Boehner and McConnell!

[Sequoyah101]

Exactly. How many times has that happened already?

The guy is the teflon don... nothing sticks to him.

[21twelve]

I think the big thing of concern is a spill obviously. And that part of Alaska is a big fisheries industry. How about a trade - open up more of the North Slope in exchange for Bristol Bay? I’ve read where if they don’t keep the oil flow up high enough from the North Slope the pipeline will end up clogging up and ruined.

[vpintheak]

What a puke.

[mazda77]

“The guy is the Teflon Don... nothing sticks to him.”

So thought Gotti as he took his last breath lying on a prison bed.

[thackney]

Secretary Salazar Announces Comprehensive Strategy for Offshore Oil and Gas Development and Exploration
http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/2010_03_31_release.cfm
03/31/201

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that, as part of a comprehensive strategy for strengthening the nation’s energy security and reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil, the Obama Administration will expand oil and gas development and exploration on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, while protecting fisheries, tourism, and places off U.S. coasts that are not appropriate for development.

“By responsibly expanding conventional energy development and exploration here at home we can strengthen our energy security, create jobs, and help rebuild our economy,” said Salazar, who joined President Obama at Andrews Air Force Base to make the announcement. “Our strategy calls for developing new areas offshore, exploring frontier areas, and protecting places that are too special to drill. By providing order and certainty to offshore exploration and development and ensuring we are drilling in the right ways and the right places, we are opening a new chapter for balanced and responsible oil and gas development here at home.”

The Administration’s strategy calls for: developing oil and gas resources in new areas, such as the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, more than 125 miles from Florida’s coast; increasing oil and gas exploration in frontier areas, such as the Arctic Ocean and the Mid and South Atlantic Ocean; and protecting ocean areas that are simply too special to drill, such as Alaska’s Bristol Bay.

The strategy will guide the current 2007-2012 offshore oil and gas leasing program, which was written by the previous administration but found by the courts last year to be legally flawed, as well as the new 2012-2017 program that this administration will propose.

[thackney]

And previously gave seven Arctic islands in oil rich areas to Russia

This silly myth gets repeated here far too many times.

Status of Wrangel and Other Arctic Islands
http://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rls/fs/20922.htm

No negotiations regarding the U.S.-Russia maritime boundary have occurred since 1990, when the U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement was signed. The negotiations that led to that agreement did not address the status of Wrangel Island, Herald Island, Bennett Island, Jeannette Island, or Henrietta Island, all of which lie off Russia's Arctic coast, or Mednyy (Copper) Island or rocks off the coast of Mednyy Island in the Bering Sea. None of the islands or rocks above were included in the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, and they have never been claimed by the United States, although Americans were involved in the discovery and exploration of some of them.

The U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement, signed by the United States and the Soviet Union on June 1, 1990, defines our maritime boundary in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and northern Pacific Ocean. The U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement is a treaty that requires ratification by both parties before it formally enters into force. The treaty was made public at the time of its signing. In a separate exchange of diplomatic notes, the two countries agreed to apply the agreement provisionally. The United States Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification of the U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement on September 16, 1991.

The Russian Federation informed the United States Government by diplomatic note dated January 13, 1992, that it “continues to perform the rights and fulfill the obligations flowing from the international agreements” signed by the Soviet Union. The United States and the Russian Federation, which is considered to be the sole successor state to the treaty rights and obligations of the former Soviet Union for the purposes of the U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement, are applying the treaty on a provisional basis, pending its ratification by the Russian Federation.

The United States regularly holds discussions with Russia on Bering Sea issues, but these discussions do not affect the placement of the U.S.-Russia boundary or the jurisdiction over any territory or the sovereignty of any territory. The U.S. has no intention of reopening discussion of the 1990 Maritime Boundary Treaty.

[thackney]

By, the way, in 2000, World Net Daily told the same lie, but blamed it on Bush back then.

http://www.wnd.com/2000/10/482/

It ought to tell you something more about WDN than either president.

[Sequoyah101]

Now you’re just trying to get me excited.

[TexasCajun]

Obama got “ bitch slapped “ today for unconstitutional amnesty by a Pennsylvania Federal judge. The courts are about to kick his smoke filled ass

And do you know just how many times, in Obama's 6 yrs in office, he has been Bitch Slapped for the same reason?

[freekitty]

He’s nuts.

[liberalh8ter]

He’s really on a roll.

[morphing libertarian]

Two more years of destruction and nothing to stop him