hypocritexposer
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this is more or less what will happen if they continue to implement the Healthcare bill, without a stay.
No respect for the Rule of Law
"We told you So"
Hey OT, any word on an energy policy yet? Oil is a little over $100, don't you think it is time? At what point did you starting calling for one from Bush?
http://thehayride.com/2011/02/feldman-issues-civil-contempt-order-to-interior-on-offshore-moratorium/
No respect for the Rule of Law
"We told you So"
Hey OT, any word on an energy policy yet? Oil is a little over $100, don't you think it is time? At what point did you starting calling for one from Bush?
Feldman Issues Civil Contempt Order To Interior On Offshore Moratorium
February 2nd, 2011
The Obama administration’s determination to strangle offshore drilling took a beating today as U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman found Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar in civil contempt for violating a court order Feldman issued dissolving the administration’s offshore drilling moratorium in June of last year.
Feldman’s eight-page ruling, which can be found here, sets forth the elements of what he calls a “determined disregard” for the order he gave in June to lift the moratorium. The judge goes through a chain of events which to him amounts to a pattern of behavior unmistakably showing a commitment to ban offshore drilling, and then refers the case to a magistrate in order to determine damages owed to Hornbeck Offshore Services and the other plaintiffs in the case by the Department of the Interior.
Hornbeck’s general counsel, Sam Giberga, said in a written statement, “What is striking about today’s ruling is that it holds the government, acting through its highest levels, in contempt of a federal court order.”
In Feldman’s contempt order, the judge noted a string of complaints surrounding Interior’s conduct of the moratorium…
* The President directed Salazar to conduct a review of offshore permitting in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon accident;
* Interior’s review recommended a moratorium and insinuated that those recommendations had been peer-reviewed by a panel of drilling experts it had consulted during the review – and the experts immediately went public with their objection both to the insinuation and the moratorium;
* Salazar then instituted a moratorium covering all drilling in depths of 500 feet or more, upon which Hornbeck and other companies filed suit;
* Feldman, on June 22, issued an injunction and an order that Interior not enforce the moratorium on the basis that the moratorium was “arbitrary and capricious;”
* Interior then issued an order not to enforce the moratorium to its employees at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement;
* Salazar, however, went public with his intention to reimpose a moratorium, and of course no drilling permits were issued;
* Interior appealed Feldman’s injunction to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and lost on July 8; by July 12, it had issued a new moratorium substantially identical to the first – with only the semantic difference that instead of using 500 feet of ocean depth as a standard, it applied to wells with undersea blowout preventers (which are essentially a requirement for a deepwater well);
* On Oct. 12, Interior supposedly lifted the moratorium, but no new deepwater permits were issued (nor have any been issued to this day). In November, an Interior Department inspector general’s report showed that the initial review had been altered in an attempt to mislead the public into the impression of peer review by operatives within White House climate/energy czar Carol Browner’s office.
http://thehayride.com/2011/02/feldman-issues-civil-contempt-order-to-interior-on-offshore-moratorium/