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Obama Tears Up Drilling Permits to Stop Gigantic Energy Boom in Colorado
breitbart.com ^ | 11/17/16 | by Chriss W. Street

Posted on 11/18/2016 7:53:47 AM PST by blueyon

Sally Jewell, the U.S. interior secretary, just cancelled leases to drill for natural gas on federal land in Colorado, in a last-ditch effort to stop an energy boom bigger than Bakken Shale discovery in North Dakota.

Jewell’s Bureau of Land Management claimed that the 25 “Mancos” energy drilling leases now being cancelled were just a non-performing portion of 65 leases on “lands managed by the White River National Forest” and “amount to less than ½ of 1 percent of the active leases on public lands in the state of Colorado.”

But the 25 properties were “non-performing” only because they have been tangled in red-tape since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, even though they were leased in 2005 during George W. Bush’s administration.

The BLM manages nearly 700 million acres of federal lands in the United States. Because of tight restrictions, the “onshore” oil and gas wells on BLM lands accounts for just 11 percent of the natural gas supply and five percent of the oil supply in the United States.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: drilling; energy; obama; oil; trump
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To: dp0622

It was never totally clear to me how Saudi leadership was involved in the attacks, although carried out by Saudi citizens. Was there some nodding and winking going on? Was it incompetence? If a group of wildcats from the USA went over to Saudi Arabia and bombed Mecca, would that mean Donald Trump was to blame?


21 posted on 11/18/2016 8:03:14 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Resettozero

Can’t imagine why juries won’t convict people who act-up against THIS agency......./s


22 posted on 11/18/2016 8:04:07 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: blueyon

You’re right - January 20th can’t arrive soon enough.

This nation should enact policies that make us energy exporters by flooding the world market with petroleum.

Not only will that create good jobs for Americans, but it will cause great damage to the Islamic Petrostates that take our money and export it back to us in the form of terrorism.

Want to make a big dent in Islamic terror? Drill, baby, drill.


23 posted on 11/18/2016 8:04:14 AM PST by turfmann
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Even pot rights aficionados like to do it in a gas heated home. And it’s not any clearer that if Colorado had gone for Donald, the Obama administration would be any kinder to them.


24 posted on 11/18/2016 8:05:07 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: blueyon
That's ok. Unlike YOU, those rocks won't be moving from their present location.


"Ping-Pong!"

25 posted on 11/18/2016 8:05:11 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: blueyon

Unsealed Obama’s records and let the purifying rays of sunshine commence.


26 posted on 11/18/2016 8:05:29 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: turfmann

When sheiks stop buying luxury goods and start buying bombs... we know we are now in trouble.


27 posted on 11/18/2016 8:06:12 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: All

“But the 25 properties were “non-performing” only because they have been tangled in red-tape since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, even though they were leased in 2005 during George W. Bush’s administration.”

BS

They were non performing because they weren’t drilled. They were permitted in 2005, with 3 more years of Bush and they didn’t drill.

Then they didn’t drill because the price of oil sank in 2008 and didn’t get back up til 2011-12. Then oil price fell again starting mid 2014.

These leases were not drilled and thus are non performing and they weren’t drilled because it is/was unprofitable to do so.

If there’s anything worth learning from last Tuesday it is the dangers of believing your own propaganda. It didn’t drill because it would lose millions to drill. Not because some evil left winger prevented it.


28 posted on 11/18/2016 8:07:03 AM PST by Owen
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To: HiTech RedNeck

did you not read any of the reports that came out about the missing 19 pages? and frankly I think it’s absurd for anybody to think Saudi Arabia didn’t know about this and didn’t fund it.


29 posted on 11/18/2016 8:07:06 AM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Can’t imagine why juries won’t convict people who act-up against THIS agency......./s

You are far and away too clever for me...

What?
30 posted on 11/18/2016 8:07:15 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: turfmann

>>Drill, baby, drill.

The #pizzagate Ping-Pong crowd appears to have an entirely different take on that suggestion.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3495383/posts

DRAIN THE SWAMP.


31 posted on 11/18/2016 8:08:24 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

Trump should just return 90% of Federal lands to the private sector and states, and be done with this once and for all.


32 posted on 11/18/2016 8:08:41 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: blueyon

“The BLM manages nearly 700 million acres of federal lands in the United States. Because of tight restrictions, the “onshore” oil and gas wells on BLM lands accounts for just 11 percent of the natural gas supply and five percent of the oil supply in the United States.”

I think we’ve found the problem. First of all, take away ALL of the BLM’s guns. If for some reason, they have a problem where weapons are needed, there’s the US Marshals Service. Second, freeze hiring there, Third, start early retirements. Lastly, put all the ammunition they have purchased up to public auction. (Actually this should be done for all agencies that are not basic Law Enforcement where there are firearms)


33 posted on 11/18/2016 8:09:02 AM PST by vette6387
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To: headstamp 2
Trump has a roll of tape I’m sure.

I'm sure there are copies of these files on a pdf. Just hit "print" on the afternoon of 1/20/2017.

34 posted on 11/18/2016 8:09:36 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: dp0622

“The reports” asserted such a conspiracy?

That would be an exceeding dangerous thing for official S.A. to do. Exceeding dangerous. People bribed to look the other way from suspicious activities, I could believe.


35 posted on 11/18/2016 8:11:06 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

If they had to smoke natural gas, they’d be apoplectic.


36 posted on 11/18/2016 8:11:45 AM PST by huckfillary
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To: vette6387

Maybe the bureau could be downsized or dissolved.


37 posted on 11/18/2016 8:13:31 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Fred Hayek

President stompey foot sees his image fade to abject nothingness.

Never to be remembered for anything other than a racist half breed nare do well dim bulb who did nothing but harm.


38 posted on 11/18/2016 8:14:07 AM PST by Eddie01 (Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
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To: blueyon

LMAO!!! Tear up everything you community organizing idiot!!! It’s like the last day of Hitler in Berlin...burn everything!


39 posted on 11/18/2016 8:14:45 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Fred Hayek
"Scorched earth?"

Well-poisonings next...

40 posted on 11/18/2016 8:14:48 AM PST by redhead (WEAPONIZED PRAYE R WORKS!)
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