Trump moving toward energy exploration in Arctic wildlife refuge: report

[turbinetree]

Source: The Hill

The Trump administration is working to allow energy exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for the first time in more than three decades, The Washington Post reported Friday.

In a memo dated Aug. 11, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Acting Director James Kurth directed the agency's regional director for Alaska to get rid of the time constraints listed in a rule that allowed exploratory drilling in the refuge between Oct. 1, 1984 and May 31, 1986.

"When finalized, the new regulation will allow for applicants to [submit] requests for approval of new exploration plans,” the memo reads, according to the Post.

That memo also notes that the Fish and Wildlife Service was asked to update the rule by the Interior Department, though it isn't clear who requested the change.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/350979-trump-admin-moving-toward-energy-exploration-in-arctic-national

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I guess this f*cking team didn't see what happened in Texas and Florida in the last couple of weeks.................................

[iluvtennis]

1. OMG. Un-fkn-believable

[kimbutgar]

2. They really want to end the world as we know it.

Those christofascists want the end times so much that they are now they are speeding it up. Nothing comes good of messing around with Mother Nature like that.

[calimary]

3. trump's good buddy Vlad would appreciate this little gift.

[dalton99a]

14. Bingo.

[SunSeeker]

4. Fuck.

[montana_hazeleyes]

5. I feel evil greed is what it's all about with this maladministration!

Amongst all the other evil crap.

[Lulu KC]

6. over my dead body

and those of 100,000 caribou.

Every few years someone goes after it again. They think we're going to back down on this one?

Guess again.

[Dustlawyer]

7. Trump and company just don't give a fu*k! They just don't

This is what pure corruption looks like!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Trump is a useful idiot for the Pave The Earth crowd. . . . . nt

[Sunlei]

9. All Republican exploiters are after trump for their pieces of OUR Public lands.They know he is stup.

Mr.Trump you're a Republican patsy a stupid man- if you give them anything.

[modrepub]

10. Will be tied up in courts for awhile

Altering rules is one thing but you still have to follow the laws currently in place. Whether there are any significant extractions from here will ultimately depend on the price of oil and if they can extract at a profit. Actually getting to a point where you can pump any oil from the ground is probably decades away given you'll have to get permits, line up financing and put the infrastructure in place. Not to mention that the work season up there is probably all of three months. In the mean time, the best strategy to stop this is to conserve fuel; buy a hybrid or something else with good gas milage, winterize your house so you don't burn as much fuel oil, upgrade your furnace to a more efficient unit et cetera. Keeping oil prices low by reducing demand will make sure these projects are never economically feasible.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. I detest this administration which will eventually be responsible for the

deaths of all of us and other living things.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Trump is not only anti-Obama he's anti-Eisenhower too!

Eisenhower protected ANWR

Eisenhower stood solidly for the Constitution and against the Soviet Union

Eisenhower stood for the rule of law, and for the courts in all the states

You get the idea

[Vermijelli]

13. Fucking idiot

[packman]

15. Off and On Shore drilling already being done in the Arctic

But allowing it in a Wildlife Refuge - or even thinking about it - is very troubling


https://watchers.news/2012/10/01/major-oil-company-warns-potential-disaster-arctic-oil-drilling/