A federal judge has ruled that the Obama (*DfOaLG) administration’s intransigence on issuing oil drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico is in contempt of an order made in 2010:
Interior Department regulators acted with “determined disregard” by lifting and reinstituting a series of policy changes that
No! Not that Martin Feldman...
restricted offshore drilling, following the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, U.S. District Judge, Martin Feldman of New Orleans ruled yesterday.
“Each step the government took following the court’s imposition of a preliminary injunction showcases its defiance,” Feldman said in the ruling.
“Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the re-imposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium, and in light of the national importance of this case, provide this court with clear and convincing evidence of the government’s contempt,” Feldman said.
President Barack Obama’s administration first halted offshore exploration in waters deeper than 500 feet in May, after the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig off the Louisiana coast led to a subsea blowout of a BP Plc well that spewed more than 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Given that the imperious Obama and his cronies don’t feel bound by the laws of the common people, I wonder if this will result in any action whatsoever? Read the rest at Bloomberg News
*Descended from Olympus and Lightworker Genius, on the order of Wile E. Coyote
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