National Center for Public Policy Research: Obama Administration Overreaction to Deepwater Horizon Accident Like “Industrial Sabotage”
Oil drilling rigs are leaving the Gulf of Mexico for locations all over the world. More are slated to follow. Oil and gas producers are looking for some sign that the regulatory climate is going to experience a favorable change, and they aren’t seeing it. Kevin Mooney at Master Resource has an informative piece on [...]
Exxon Makes Major Oil Discovery in Gulf: Will the Obama Administration Seize the Opportunity? Doubtful.
Exxon just announced it has found 700 million barrels of oil at a well in the Gulf of Mexico. The well is located 250 miles south of New Orleans, in 7,000 feet of water. The question now is will the Obama (*DfOaLG) administration issue a permit to allow them to recover it? (from The Hill) House [...]
News You Don’t Hear: One Year after the Gulf Oil Spill, Things are Mostly Normal
Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail has a good piece on the condition of the Gulf of Mexico one year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Despite the media’s doom and gloom predictions, and insistence on portraying every aspect of the spill as “disaster,” that’s not what happened. In some ways, in fact, the [...]
The U.S. Has the World’s Largest Energy Reserves. Why Aren’t We Using Them?
At least one of the reasons is sitting in the Oval Office (at least part of the time), and he thinks a lot smarter than you or me. He Descended from Olympus as Lightworker Genius, and set about to right all the wrongs in America. This included shackling the energy industry at every turn, and [...]
Panic as Policy: Germany Shuts Down Nuclear Capacity
Abe Greenwald at Commentary Magazine describes how some world leaders are reacting hastily and foolishly to the nuclear accident in Japan. Just 48 hours after the explosion at reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Saturday, Merkel caved, ordering a three-month moratorium on the extension. The seven oldest of Germany’s 17 power stations, [...]
Barack Obama – Our $4 Per Gallon President
Think what you will of Sarah Palin. She might not have (at least in the political elites’ estimation) the “gravitas” to be a presidential candidate, but having been governor of a state where oil production made up a significant part of the economy, she probably knows a few things about oil and gas. Her latest [...]
Judge Rules Obama Administration in Contempt
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 restricted offshore drilling, following the worst offshore oil spill [...]
The environmental disaster that, well, wasn’t
It appears that even the lame-stream media (LSM) is starting to get it: there isn’t really an “environmental disaster” in the Gulf of Mexico The Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion was a terrible tragedy for the workers who were killed and their families. The resulting oil spill, touted nightly on news reports with dramatic “Day x” [...]
