Posted on 01/25/2015 10:18:39 AM PST by kristinn
The White House is proposing to designate the oil-rich coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness permanently off limits to drilling.
The proposal sets up a showdown with Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who said the White House also intends to put much of the Arctic Ocean off limits to drilling in the new five-year offshore leasing plan to be released this week.
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Obamas proposal to designate 12.3 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness would require Congressional approval, and there is no chance the Republican-controlled Congress will agree. But there are heightened protections the Interior Department will start implementing on its own.
The proposed wilderness designation includes the 1.5-million acre coastal plain of ANWR, estimated to contain some 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Politicians have battled for decades about whether to open the area. Then-President Bill Clinton vetoed a measure in 1995 that would have allowed drilling.
Obama announced the proposed wilderness designation on Sunday via a YouTube video. He called ANWR an "incredible place, pristine, undisturbed," that supports caribou, polar bears and fish. He said the Interior Department has put together a comprehensive plan to protect the area.
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Permanently? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
If the president can do that under his own power the next president can undo it. If it requires a law then the next congress and president can undo it. Well, assuming that the Republicans ever get the spine to reverse the leftward ratchet of our government.
I always go on the assumption that whatever he does is done to damage America....The ghost of the Savage King of Saudi Arabia said to shut down your oil production so all of us OTHER savages can stay rich. Obama said “OK”.
Doggone, I thought all the critters had been killed off, driven to extinction by north slope mines, the oil pipeline and global warming. Well, with the inevitable hothouse climate coming, why bother to save the already doomed polar bear and caribou? Are you sure Sarah Palin hasn’t already wiped them out with her blood lust hunting?
Your list reminds me of:
Matthew 23:38
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate*.
*2048 eremos {er'-ay-mos}
of uncertain affinity; TDNT - 2:657,255; adjective
AV - wilderness 32, desert 13, desolate 4, solitary 1; 50
1) solitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited
1a) used of places
1a1) a desert, wilderness
1a2) deserted places, lonely regions
1a3) an uncultivated region fit for pasturage
1b) used of persons
1b1) deserted by others
1b2) deprived of the aid and protection of others,
especially of friends, acquaintances, kindred
1b3) bereft
1b3a) of a flock deserted by the shepherd
1b3b) of a women neglected by her husband,
from whom the husband withholds himself
Jerusalem is an allegory for America. The premontions are strong with this one.
” He called ANWR an “incredible place, pristine, undisturbed...”
Has he ever SEEN a picture of the coastal plain? Besides being only a tiny fraction of ANWR, it’s a barren wasteland. Apparently during his 57-state tour, he never managed to get up there.
This is Very Interesting Read Regarding Argentina and Iran's Trade.
While almost nothing in years past, the Lucrative Trade now sets at over $1 Billion.
I am sure Ubama and is buddy would love that here with us and grease their palms along the way.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3250022/posts?page=3#3
It's Always About The Money.
Obama is not only a Muslim sympathizer, he is at war with USA. There - I’ve said it. I have no intentions of taking it back.
http://boards.fool.com/a-cartoonist-on-anwr-14981148.aspx
Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert):
I might feel different if I planned to visit the Alaskan Wildlife
Preserve anytime soon. But I don’t know what I would do once I got
there, aside from praying that I froze to death before I got eaten
by a caribou, or a koala bear, or a bat. I’ve seen pictures of the
Alaskan Wildlife Preserve and I can sum it up in just two words:
North Dakota. Do we really need two North Dakotas? I mean, we
already have South Dakota as an emergency spare.
I’m curious why he’s “asking” Congress. Remember when Clinton put millions of acres in New Mexico/Colorado border area off limits. (Diamonte ? or some such) I don’t remember that being done with Dem majorities in both houses of Congress. It was done later, iirc, after Newt’s revolution.
Sounds like our work is cut out for us at Interior after the elections in 2016. I can wait.
Its just common sense. Why drill ANWR and give 90% of the royalty to Alaska? Drill those areas that Obama opened and the feds get to keep 100% of the royalty.
Obama Proposes to Make ANWR a Wilderness —— PING!
Sure! Right after he and the mooch spend a winter vacatition there..
I think he decided that Alaska was racist because of all the snow.
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