Obama Admin Unveils Plan To Close 1.6 Million Acres Of Federal Land Slated For Oil Shale Development… Part of his “all of the above” energy strategy? Via E2 Wire: The Interior Department on Friday issued a final plan to close 1.6 million acres of federal land in the West originally slated for oil shale development. The proposed plan would fence off a majority of the initial blueprint laid out in the final days of the George W. Bush administration. It faces a 30-day protest period and a 60-day process to ensure it is consistent with local and state policies. After that, the department would render a decision for implementation. The move is sure to rankle Republicans, who say President Obama’s grip on fossil fuel drilling in federal lands is too tight. Interior’s Bureau of Land Management cited environmental concerns for the proposed changes. Among other things, it excised lands with “wilderness characteristics” and areas that conflicted with sage grouse habitats. Under the plan, 677,000 acres in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming would be open for oil shale exploration. Another 130,000 acres in Utah would be set aside for tar sands production. Oil shale development is not to be confused with drilling into shale formations for oil and natural gas. The practice, which involves separating hydrocarbons bound up in rocks, has not been widely executed since Exxon’s failed Colorado venture in the 1980s. Bobby McEnaney, senior lands analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council, praised Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for the proposed final plan. “By significantly reducing the acreage of wilderness potentially available for leasing, Secretary Salazar is laying out a creative, thoughtful and more responsible approach in managing some of our most precious resources,” McEnaney said in a Friday statement.
Obama Admin Has Posted 6,125 Regulations And Notifications Over Last 90 Days, Average 68 Per Day… Because regulations do wonders for economic growth. (CNSNews.com) – It’s Friday morning, and so far today, the Obama administration has posted 165 new regulations and notifications on its reguations.gov website. In the past 90 days, it has posted 6,125 regulations and notices – an average of 68 a day. The website allows visitors to find and comment on proposed regulations and related documents published by the U.S. federal government. “Help improve Federal regulations by submitting your comments,” the website says. The thousands of entries run the gamut from meeting notifications to fee schedules to actual rules and proposed rule changes.
Who gives a **** about oil production as long as the ding-a-lings without rings get their contraceptives to stop reproduction?
Christie is taking a lot of heat. But why? What was he supposed to do? Tell Obama he was not allowed in NJ? Accuse him of creating the storm? No one campaigned harder for Romney than Chris Christie and he did for over a year. he was the first big name to endorse. And he made it clear after Obama's visit that he was still voting for Romney; nothing had changed. This state, particularly the shore, is totally devastated. Weneeded an outward show of unified support.
There are those, unfortunately many, who have no room in their ideologies for common sense. Everything involving the "enemy" is a war, a confrontation, an opportunity to slander the guy on the other side. What Christie did is admirable IMO. His primary interest, above all else, is the well-being of the people of New Jersey. I respect him for his common sense approach for the benefit of his people.
I think it was a time to respect the President, shake his hand, compliment him, and thank him for all he was doing. He didn't have to French Kiss him.
:evil: Then there are guys like......me. Obama hid from the American people these facts until AFTER the election: 1. His abandonment of four Americans in Libya who were left to die, while he flew off to campaign in Las Vegas. 2. The Iranian attack on our drones in international airspace. 3. The pending political execution of Gen. Petraeus (Chicago style) for failing to participate in the Libya coverup. You're telling me that fat rat bastard Christie couldn't have thanked Obama one week later? What a dummy...
:evil: Here's another one for Fatso Christie to chew one... Foodstamps Surge By Most In One Year To New All Time Record Of 47.1 Million People, Report Delayed Until After Election… Now why would they delay a report like this? Hmmm, total mystery. Via Zerohedge: While there had been speculation that the BLS may delay the release of its October nonfarm payroll number until after the election, it turned out there was no reason to worry. Perhaps this is because the number, while at stall speed, was not quite as horrible as some had expected (even if the change in average hourly earnings did tumble to new all time lows) and so boosted Obama’s reelection chances. There was, however, another closely tracked number which perhaps is far more indicative of the economic “growth” in the past 4 years, which certainly had a delayed release. The number of course is that showing how many Americans are on foodstamps, and usually is released at the end of the month, or the first day or two of the next month. This time the USDA delayed its release nine days past the semi-official deadline, far past the election, and until Friday night to report August foodstamp data. One glance at the number reveals why: at 47.1 million, this was not only a new all time record, but the monthly increase of 420,947 from July was the biggest monthly increase in one year. One can see why a reported surge in foodstamps ahead of the elections is something the USDA, and the administration may not have been too keen on disclosing.
Unfortunately we cannot control our natural disasters or their timing. Anyone who would change their vote over a couple of comments and photos at that point likely was not a committed vote to begin with.
:idea: It was the uncommitted vote that broke for Obama, at the last minute, in more than a half-dozen states where the margin was razor thin and made the difference. Christie is a tool or a fool...
I gotta pull with George and Sid on this one JO'Co, Christie came out looking like his main concern were the people of NJ and rightly so, damn the politics there are hundreds of boats on top of cars, no power, another storm is heading in our direction. Politics aside the agency's involved seemed to have learned a lesson from Katrina and were acting faster than expected from a government agency so he said a few kind words in the direction of the President. Should he be crucified because the timing sucked in the presidential election...? Christie's entire reputation is about saying what is on his mind at the moment and damn the consequences...
Holder notified of Petraeus probe in late summer -- did he tell anyone? Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/12/holder-notified-petraeus-probe-in-late-summer/#ixzz2C4NyEWwO The Chicago Machine was sitting on that Petraeus stuff for a long time...
re: Pig Boy :roll: I hope he enjoys being governor of New Jersey, because he doesn't have a future as a Republican anywhere else. While Obama/Chicago was hiding everything from neglect of duty by the president to blackmail letters from general's girlfriends in the final week of the campaign, that swine handed them the photo op/soundbite of the century. That's why MSNBC was so giddy and Chris Mathews was celebrating the hurricane...
Your Governor is Jerry Brown. How do you find time to criticize Christie? he has accomplished more here in three years than Brown has in his career.
For 15 months Christie campaigned for Romney. Then this. We will be counting casualties here for years. I can tell you that nobody in this state is holding Chris Christie accountable for Mitt Romney's outcome. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Yudk_4I-slQ?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Christie is ten times the governor that Gerry Brown is and twenty times the Republican that Arnold Schwarzenegger was. If you're happy; I'm happy. :idea: