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by cancelling lease auction for oil shale drilling.
Obama USDA delays shale drilling, up to 200k jobs | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner (http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-usda-delays-shale-drilling-200k-jobs - broken link)
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President Obama's United States Department of Agriculture has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a mineral lease auction for Wayne National Forest (WNF). The move was taken in deference to environmentalists, on the pretext of studying the effects of hydraulic fracturing.
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"The President’s plan is to simply say ‘no’ to new energy production," House Natural Resources Committee chairman Doc Hastings, R-Wash, said to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar during a hearing pertaining to hydraulic fracturing. "It’s a plan that is sending American jobs overseas, forfeiting new revenue, and denying access to American energy that would lessen our dependence on hostile Middle Eastern oil."
If I'm not mistaken, permits would still have to be issued so why cancel the auction all together? Doesn't this also decrease federal revenue collection (via lease auction/fees) at a time the federal government needs it most?
Couple this with the oil moratorium, and the stalling of the keystone pipeline and the track record is there. His priority is not jobs and energy.
I learned the hard way that the Keystone pipeline is not liked very well by people in western Nebraska and Kansas. Why? Well the Ogallala Aquifer is their main, if not only, source of ground water and it is getting shorter and shorter caused by irrigation. The ground where the pipeline was proposed to go in Nebraska is very sandy and loose and I see why the people there fear what would happen from a severe leak. I know bit about that country having lived there and farmed a few years there. They really don't want to take a chance on losing their most important source of water. Cities, towns and farmers all depend on the aquifer for their water.
I believe that the pipeline will be constructed but a bit further east from where it was originally planned.
Couple this with the oil moratorium, and the stalling of the keystone pipeline and the track record is there. His priority is not jobs and energy.
Why thank you DRobJC;
you can fool some of the people some of the time, but those that have half a brain, can't and won't be fooled by this administration, and their true intentions.
I learned the hard way that the Keystone pipeline is not liked very well by people in western Nebraska and Kansas. Why? Well the Ogallala Aquifer is their main, if not only, source of ground water and it is getting shorter and shorter caused by irrigation. The ground where the pipeline was proposed to go in Nebraska is very sandy and loose and I see why the people there fear what would happen from a severe leak. I know bit about that country having lived there and farmed a few years there. They really don't want to take a chance on losing their most important source of water. Cities, towns and farmers all depend on the aquifer for their water.
I believe that the pipeline will be constructed but a bit further east from where it was originally planned.
Correctamundo. This has been explained ad nauseum all week. Don't know what's so hard to understand about this.
by cancelling lease auction for oil shale drilling.
Obama USDA delays shale drilling, up to 200k jobs | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner (http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-usda-delays-shale-drilling-200k-jobs - broken link)
If I'm not mistaken, permits would still have to be issued so why cancel the auction all together? Doesn't this also decrease federal revenue collection (via lease auction/fees) at a time the federal government needs it most?
Let's not get into hyperbole. Why not assume that the delay MIGHT BE legitimate instead of assuming that everytime this happens, there is something evil going on in the Obama administration? Geez....
Already been delayed with re-reviews. Its not that KS and NE dont have plenty of pipelines already.
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