Hastings: Admin’s Response to Oversight Requests Shameful .  “Either the  Administration is incompetent or it is going out of its way to expend time and money to withhold information from Congress” ​

Doc Hastings, Administration Shameful, Photo by Dave Harbour

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 10, 2014 – House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Full Committee oversight hearing entitled The Status of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Responses to Committee Subpoenas and the Continued Lack of Transparency about Its Implementation and Enforcement of American Wildlife Laws, and Oversight of the Department of the Interior’s Solicitor’s Office.

Comment:  There are many ways we can lose our freedom.  Yesterday, we discussed the relationship between the November elections, freedom of speech and the freedom to produce natural resource wealth under a reliable, predictable 'rule of law'.  And, we documented how one political party in Washington seeks to stay in power by diminishing the rule of law.  Early this morning, after additional research, we added this epilog that our readers might find personally and professionally interesting.  It is a reminder from a great poet, philosopher and playwright to not forget past tragedy. -dh


Jim Prentice elected premier by rapidly shrinking party base: Steward

Jim Prentice, Alberta Premier, Dave Harbour PhotoToronto Star.  Jim Prentice (NGP Photo) won handily with 77 per cent of the vote but don't expect any dramatic shifts in policy, especially when it comes to the tarsands and pipelines. … of making the oil and gas industry less competitive by “unilaterally imposing …

 

 

 

 

The Drilldown: Prentice's new national voice on pipelines

iPolitics.ca (subscription).  Premier-designate Jim Prentice speaks to media before meeting Alberta … which he has argued are critical to more oil and gas leaving the ground.