***BREAKING NEWS…SALAZAR MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO BARROW AND ANCHORAGE!***
***Alaska Dispatch Story***Barrow Details***Anchorage Media Conference Details***
(This Administration Has Treated Alaska Very Poorly. Activities Affecting Alaska Are Opaque And An Affront to Both Due Process and Common Courtesy. -dh)
We Urge Readers to Follow Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) Coverage
CEA Announcement: On Tuesday, September 7th, The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich (NGP Photo) and other US Dept of Interior officials will be in Houston to hear expert panelists discuss the Obama Administration’s offshore oil and gas drilling plans — including views on the current moratorium. (Commentary: Every one of our hundreds of Gulf Coast readers — particularly elected officials — should consider a drive to Houston for the meeting next Tuesday. How many realize that this one appointed bureaucrat will advise the appointed Secretary of the Interior on all aspects of OCS moratoria, permitting policy, lease sales and lease sale conditions? And, how many correctly conclude that this one man has been given the power to change Texas, all the gulf states, and the standard of living for all Americans? I think I see complacency beginning to retreat in the face of outrage. I hope so. Rise up. See our coverage of last week’s Anchorage meeting. Oh, and watch out for a potential, crafty outcome: removing the formal moratoria but establishing such a weight of new access restrictions and permit requirements that de facto moratoria effectively stop OCS momentum until the national leadership is replaced. In Anchorage, Bromwich said, "There is no actual or ‘de facto’ moratorium on shallow water drilling". On June 23, Secretary Salazar said in an Appropriations Committee meeting in answer to questioning by Senator Lisa Murkowski that the moratorium does apply to Alaska, even though Alaska’s OCS programs involve shallow water activity in less that 200′. Also note that Obama’s Corps of Engineers is strangling development within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska; the Obama Administration’s EPA has withheld critical OCS permits; Obama’s NOAA is using the ESA to shut down access to prospective areas; the Obama White House is creating a way to zone the oceans–which could affect all forms of commerce/use of oceans and even of waterways that feed the oceans. In short, this is a bigger problem than just the Bromwich moratorium issue. Surely, the foxes are in the hen house. The BOEM meeting next week–as critical and life-changing as it could be–is just one small part of a much larger challenge to America’s very survival. -dh)
***BREAKING NEWS…SALAZAR MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO BARROW AND ANCHORAGE!***
***Alaska Dispatch Story***Barrow Details***Anchorage Media Conference Details***
(This Administration Has Treated Alaska Very Poorly. Activities Affecting Alaska Are Opaque And An Affront to Both Due Process and Common Courtesy. -dh)
We Urge Readers to Follow Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) Coverage
CEA Announcement: On Tuesday, September 7th, The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich (NGP Photo) and other US Dept of Interior officials will be in Houston to hear expert panelists discuss the Obama Administration’s offshore oil and gas drilling plans — including views on the current moratorium. (Commentary: Every one of our hundreds of Gulf Coast readers — particularly elected officials — should consider a drive to Houston for the meeting next Tuesday. How many realize that this one appointed bureaucrat will advise the appointed Secretary of the Interior on all aspects of OCS moratoria, permitting policy, lease sales and lease sale conditions? And, how many correctly conclude that this one man has been given the power to change Texas, all the gulf states, and the standard of living for all Americans? I think I see complacency beginning to retreat in the face of outrage. I hope so. Rise up. See our coverage of last week’s Anchorage meeting. Oh, and watch out for a potential, crafty outcome: removing the formal moratoria but establishing such a weight of new access restrictions and permit requirements that de facto moratoria effectively stop OCS momentum until the national leadership is replaced. In Anchorage, Bromwich said, "There is no actual or ‘de facto’ moratorium on shallow water drilling". On June 23, Secretary Salazar said in an Appropriations Committee meeting in answer to questioning by Senator Lisa Murkowski that the moratorium does apply to Alaska, even though Alaska’s OCS programs involve shallow water activity in less that 200′. Also note that Obama’s Corps of Engineers is strangling development within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska; the Obama Administration’s EPA has withheld critical OCS permits; Obama’s NOAA is using the ESA to shut down access to prospective areas; the Obama White House is creating a way to zone the oceans–which could affect all forms of commerce/use of oceans and even of waterways that feed the oceans. In short, this is a bigger problem than just the Bromwich moratorium issue. Surely, the foxes are in the hen house. The BOEM meeting next week–as critical and life-changing as it could be–is just one small part of a much larger challenge to America’s very survival. -dh)
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