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Oil drilling: Admin. found in contempt of a Fed. Court Order

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?


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/
 

Steve

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I agree it seems a strong indication to voters that the Obama administration has little if any regard for the law..

and will go to extreme ends to support their agenda.. but what good is an order of contempt against the Obama administration?
 

Tam

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* 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.

Wonder if this has anything to do with Browner's exit from the Obama Administration.
 

Steve

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you don't mean this browner? :? :shock: :shock:

Radical Carol Browner created oil spill lies,False drilling memos

One of the Beltway’s most influential, entrenched and unaccountable left-wing radicals, Browner has now been called out twice by President Obama’s own federal BP oil spill commission and Interior Department inspector general.

First, the BP oil spill panel dinged her for disseminating misleading information to the public about the scope of the disaster. In the aftermath of the spill, she falsely claimed that 75 percent of the spill was “now completely gone from the system” and falsely claimed that the administration’s August report on the disaster was “peer-reviewed.” The false claim “contributed to public perception” of Browner’s calculation as “more exact and complete” than it was ever designed to be, the oil spill commission concluded in October.

This week, the Interior Department inspector general singled out Browner’s office for butchering peer-reviewed scientists’ conclusions in a key report about the administration’s preordained deepwater drilling moratorium. The scientists first blew the whistle on the administration’s monkey business this summer. A federal judge sided with the misrepresented scientists and blasted the Interior Department’s big green lie that its moratorium was “peer-reviewed” and endorsed by “seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering.”

what ever happened to listening to sound critical science, uninfluenced by politics?

Barack Obama's inaugural address pledged that "We will restore science to its rightful place...our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed'.

but it just got worse..




it may never get better but at least with President Palin we wouldn't paying $3 a gallon for gas... Drill NOW!
 

Tam

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Steve said:
Barack Obama's inaugural address pledged that "We will restore science to its rightful place...our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed'.

I'd say in Obama's Radical Administration's mind the rightful place for science is right after their agenda to force green energy on everyone and bankrupting the US economy. :wink:
 

hypocritexposer

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Steve, do a google for this topic and see if anything comes up.

Seems it has been mostly scrubbed and also that the MSM has not reported on it.

But we're getting used to that, aren't we?
 

Steve

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hypocritexposer said:
Steve, do a google for this topic and see if anything comes up.

Seems it has been mostly scrubbed and also that the MSM has not reported on it.

But we're getting used to that, aren't we?

interesting in that most of the listed sites were blogs and internet only news forums. the first mainstream listing was on page three was the WSJ and bloomberg.com

I guess it would not have made the front page of any newspaper :? :?

how long can the media cover for little MuBarack?
 
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