Calgary Herald by Sherri Zickefoose. An anti-oil pipeline art show is being sent packing from City Hall’s atrium after officials yanked the group’s permit over price tags and politics.
Yesterday we editorialized on how the Administration’s persistent effort to create a new ocean zoning bureaucracy defies Congressional authority. Over the last several years, we have documented many instances of this Administration’s effort to overreach its authority and expand its jurisdiction and control over the American public. One of the effects is to diminish jobs, economic recovery and tax/royalty revenue from domestic production on federal lands. Below, we bring readers more contemporaneous examples of federal obstacles to reinvigorating America’s economy. We were worried yesterday that Congress fiddles while the Administration usurps its authority. While we stand on that statement (i.e. wishing for a more robust effort to confront Constitutional violations), we do commend a couple of particularly courageous patriots (among a few others), who are trying to hold back the tide of federal overreach: Congressman Doc Hastings and Senator Lisa Murkowski. -dh
Yesterday, House Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo) said, “This final implementation plan raises more questions than answers and provides even less information on what the Obama Administration will impose under the guise of a National Ocean Policy. What is certain is that this policy represents a significant step towards the mandatory zoning of our oceans and is a backdoor attempt to control the way inland, coastal and ocean activities are managed. If implemented, it will inflict red tape and economic damage both onshore and offshore across a wide-range of activities including agriculture, fishing, construction, manufacturing, mining, oil and natural gas, and renewable energy.
Late yesterday we received this message from the National Ocean Policy Council. We appreciate the diplomacy of their statement but believe that they and all Americans should be demanding that the President rescind the Ocean Zoning effort rather than simply reflecting their collective ‘concerns’. -dh NOPC said, "Following an initial review of the National Ocean Policy Final Implementation Plan released earlier today, significant questions and concerns remain about whether continued implementation of this initiative will adversely impact commercial and recreational activities across the United States." |
Today, Hastings said, "Today we’ll hear the story of two very different methods for energy production here in the United States. (Photo-l)
The energy production that occurs on state and private lands, and the energy production that occurs on federal lands. Energy production on state and private lands is flourishing – creating new jobs and thriving, healthy economies. These lands are the epicenter of the energy renaissance we’re currently experiencing. On these lands oil and natural gas production has increased dramatically since 2007. The restrictions on these lands are not as onerous, and as a result, the average time to get a drilling permit approved is only 12 -15 days.
Yesterday, amid a Senate Energy Committee hearing on the Forest Service’s So-Called Multiple Use Mission and Budget, Senator Lisa Murkowski (NGP Photo) said, "“Our national forests are increasingly being managed like national parks – areas in which no timber harvesting is permitted,” Murkowski said. “The Forest Service must return to its multiple-use mission. The economic viability of hundreds of communities located next to national forests depends on the responsible production of our timber resources.” |
Two Visions of the Arctic
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Mary Barr
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