Over the past several months, Joe Biden has canceled the XLPipeline and leveled onerous regulations on gas and oil. He followed that up by asking OPEC to churn out more oil, which they rejected.
In other words, he won’t let us produce our own oil and gas to be free of our enemies.
Now, we have a far-left judge dealing a massive blow to the gas industry.
An Obama-appointed federal district judge, Sharon Gleason, invalidated former President Donald Trump’s permits for the Willow Project, a massive oil and gas development proposed by the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPR-A).
The project would generate oil — a necessary flow — for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System which is responsible for much of the gas produced in North America.
According to Natural Gas Intel, Judge Gleason stated that the environmental impact statement for the Willow Project required a quantitative estimate of the emissions resulting from oil consumption, and there’s no explanation why it could not be produced.
She was obviously looking for any technicality.
IT’S ABOUT THE POLAR BEARS
The 110-page ruling cited plaintiffs including environmentalist organizations and native groups who were opposed to the oil and gas project over its potential impacts to the environment, including local wildlife populations of the reindeer and polar bears.
In her order, Alaska District Court Judge Sharon Gleason said she was vacating the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s approval of the development in part because the agency failed to include greenhouse gas emissions from foreign oil consumption in its environmental analysis. It also “failed to adequately analyze a reasonable range of alternatives” for the project, she wrote.
Gleason also said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not outline specific measures to mitigate the project’s impact on polar bears.
“Make no mistake, today’s ruling from a federal judge trying to shelve a major oil project on American soil does one thing: outsources production to dictatorships and terrorist organizations,” said Alaskan Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
“We are giving America over to our enemies piece by piece,” he said. “The Willow project would power America with 160,000 b/d, provide thousands of family-supporting jobs, and greatly benefit the people of Alaska.”
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District Court Judges should not have that kind of Power and probably don’t under a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
Yes, and whatever rule she tries to cite for emission estimates to be put into an environmental impact statement is not a law. She is trying to play bureaucrat. Law is not bureaucracy.
Why it’s almost as if they want tens of thousands of pipeline workers out of a job, the cost of energy to skyrocket, petrol (go go juice) at $5 a gallon, and increased dependence on hostile oil producers.
At least we don’t have the bad orange tweets.
This is only the first round in the fight. The case needs to go through several layers of Federal Courts in the appeal process and maybe get a hearing With The Supremes which can reverse the bad decision. The Supremes have already dealt a severe blow to Buyden regarding other issues like the Remain in Mexico Policy that Buyden axed.
Once again we see the hand ofteh ChiCom agents masquerading as Commiecrats. Who is hurt by this ruling? The answer is the USA. Who benefits? The ChiCom masters who installed their agents called the Obiden Harris Administration whose objective is to encourage every possible act to destroy our economy.
The Democrats and the left are bound and determined to destroy America and they’re doing a good job of it.