Posted on 06/24/2015 5:32:16 AM PDT by bestintxas
A federal judge agreed Tuesday to postpone the Obama administration’s tough new hydraulic fracturing restrictions just hours before they were scheduled to take effect.
U.S. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl in Casper, Wyoming, gave both sides another week to submit arguments and citations before making a final decision on the request for a stay, which is expected July 22.
Four Western states — Colorado, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming — along with two oil and gas industry groups had asked the court to delay the Bureau of Land Management rule slated to kick in Wednesday until their lawsuits could be heard.
The Western Energy Alliance, which filed suit along with the Independent Petroleum Association of America, argued that the rule presented a “credible threat of irreparable harm.”
“BLM was ill-prepared to implement an extremely complex rule in a short period of time,” said Kathleen Sgamma, vice president of government and public affairs, in a Tuesday statement.
“We highlighted how the BLM Washington Office has not given sufficient guidance to the state and field offices that are implementing the rule, and, as a result, they were issuing confused instructions to companies on how to comply,” she said.
She added, “The judge agreed that it makes no sense to implement an ill-conceived rule which could ultimately be overruled in court.”
A coalition of six environmental groups has defended the federal rules, which would require the BLM to approve fracking operations on federal land, arguing that they “had not been updated since 1988 despite the increasingly widespread use of well stimulation techniques like high-volume hydraulic fracturing, which injects millions of gallons of fluids and toxic chemicals into the ground,” said Earthjustice in a June 2 statement.
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The problem is sexual.....
Gaia gets injected and then in a state of ecstasy has an orgasm ejecting mass quantities of vital fluids
I have no doibt they’ll get it wrong. Brack always gets what he wants at the point of a GUN.
Where are the objections about municipal greywater deep well injections?
The Left showed us how to use the courts to frustrate an agenda popular with the voters and now it’s backfiring on them. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.
It’s nice to see the Left get a little of its own medicine for once. Now if only the upcoming Obamacare ruling would disappoint them as well...
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