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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 10:41 PM
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Poll question: Why Has The Obama Administration Approved 27 More Offshore Wells
since the BP well exploded, 26 of which were exempted from environmental review?

MMS Approved 27 Gulf Drilling Operations After BP Disaster
26 Were Exempted From Environmental Review, Including Two to BP

Salazar's "Moratorium" on New Drilling Permits Allows Continuation of the Same Flawed
Environmental Exemption Process that Allowed the BP Catastrophe

TUCSON, Ariz.— Even as the BP drilling explosion which killed eleven people continues to gush hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) has continued to exempt dangerous new drilling operations from environmental review. Twenty-seven new offshore drilling projects have been approved since April 20, 2010; twenty-six under the same environmental review exemption used to approve the disastrous BP drilling that is fouling the Gulf and its wildlife.


http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2010/post-disaster-permits-05-07-2010.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/10/headlines#6
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 10:43 PM
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1. Because we have a corrupt MMS (thanks to Cheney) and an Interior Sec'y...
...who is too close to industry and didn't clean out that rat's hole last year.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 10:53 PM
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 11:08 PM
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3. not
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 11:09 PM
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4. The US needs the revenue from home grown oil obviously
much better to have wind farms out in the ocean and the desert
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Nite Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-14-10 11:54 PM
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5. It's what it means to be a
'New Democrat'.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 08:47 AM
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11. GOP = BOHICA. DLC = BOHICA with lubrication
Either way, the people get screwed!
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 01:39 AM
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6. because cheeney's
minions in the agency still run it.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 02:43 AM
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denimgirly Donating Member (929 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 02:49 AM
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8. It'll be a miracle if he gets re-elected...too many broken promises and Corporate giveaways
Real shame too...didnt realize Obama was so much of a pushover that he virtually always buckles to the right on anything, every time...truly astonishing. So his approving more offshore drilling isnt a surprise seeing this is his character we've seen so often...if it pleases the right he will do it....and then the right will complain that it wasnt enough.

The left has become so far right it is crazy. Corruption is the cancer of Washington and it continues to grow.

I doubt i will vote fro Obama in 2012...but i doubt i will vote for anyone else either...sounds to me a lot of people will do the same and stay home...real shame.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 03:03 AM
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Aramchek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 03:00 AM
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9. your facts are incomplete and misleading
though these projects have been exempted from environmental review, they have not been given permission to drill.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 09:19 AM
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13. Yeah, someone knows that this is a very controvercial topic for the past 8 days
...and decided to see if they could 'start a little trouble' just because they can.

Here is a little history of this topic - FYI...

Suckling says that since April 20, 2010, the day of the BP disaster, MMS has approved 27 new offshore drilling projects, 26 of which were approved “under the same environmental review exemption used to approve the disastrous BP drilling that is fouling the Gulf and its wildlife.”

The Interior Department official said those numbers are inaccurate and that four exploration plans have been approved since April 20 under “categorical exclusions.”

The official said that Suckling’s basic charge is not true.

In the first stage of a proposed drilling project, the official said, various environmental reviews are done before anything is okayed. The first round of reviews happen before lease sales are even scheduled. In the second stage, there are additional environmental assessments done before tracts of land are explored and developed. So a huge amount of environmental assessments are done before the third stage, the official said.

For that third stage Congress currently requires MMS to review oil and gas plans within 30 days, which the official said is not enough time to do an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement. What MMS has done for a long time is to say the environmental analyses have already been done essentially, the official said, so the government is going to issue a categorical exclusion to say they know enough about the environmental impact of the drilling project.

That’s a problem, the official said, the government needs to get MMS more time

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/interior-department-continues-to-issue-categorical-exclusions-for-oil-drilling-administration-official-acknowledges.html

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“Is there a moratorium on off shore drilling or not?” asked Peter Galvin, conservation director with the Center for Biological Diversity, the environmental group that discovered the administration’s continued approval of the exemptions. “Possibly the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history has occurred and nothing appears to have changed.”

MMS officials said the exemptions are continuing to be issued because they do not represent final drilling approval.

To drill, a company has to file a separate application under a process that is now suspended because of Salazar’s order Thursday (5/6/10).

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/07/93761/despite-spill-feds-still-giving.html#ixzz0nqhL7RfJ

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10 previous posts on this topic. Notice the one’s that deceptively use the word “drilling” or “wells” are more popular? Interesting huh?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4372633

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=535009

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8333256

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8317145

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8295652

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8304844

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8311082

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=433&topic_id=294784

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=433&topic_id=290556

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4374507
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salguine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 08:56 AM
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12. Money money money money money money money money money money money money money
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VMI Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 09:26 AM
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14. Corporate money.
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Sheepshank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 10:39 AM
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15. misleading OP heading
but then...there's a reason for that right? Anything different here than what I would find on faux News? not much.
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besdayz Donating Member (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:51 AM
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16. idiocy
this is the perfect example of why you don't waffle on these type of issues. he's in a no win situation. he was against it before he was for it and now he's against it.

hillary: iraq as obama: drilling
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dumpdabaggers Donating Member (275 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 11:55 AM
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17. Because until we develope green energy we still need oil.
NT. Do you want to pay 6 bucks a gallon for gas?
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marlakay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 01:06 PM
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18. Because Obama still thinks you can make a deal with the republicans
like a deal with the devil. He thinks if he gives some drilling offshore, some coal, and some nuclear then they will give us all the fast trains, wind & solar power, and gas restrictions he wants.
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