Shhh: Public Comments Favor Drilling
February 4, 2010, 4:32 PM ET
Wall Street Journal: Washington Wire Blog
Stephen Power
An email last fall from a top Interior Department official indicates public comments ran two-to-one in favor of a Bush administration plan to expand offshore drilling.
The email from Liz Birnbaum, director of the Minerals Management Service which manages the… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following floor speech today highlighting discrepancies between the President’s rhetoric supporting offshore drilling and his budget that shows declining revenue from new offshore leases:
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“Last week, Americans were encouraged when President Obama mentioned offshore… Read more »
President Obama: “You can see the results of last year’s investment in clean energy – in the North Carolina company that will create 1200 jobs nationwide helping to make advanced batteries; or in the California business that will put 1,000 people to work making solar panels.”
While the government spends millions of dollars to create green jobs, they are promoting job-killing… Read more »
Last night during the State of the Union address, President Obama once again stressed the need for comprehensive energy legislation. Unfortunately, we’ve heard that line before…Despite all their talk, the Obama Administration has repeatedly taken steps to block American energy production and job creation.
Republicans on the House Natural Resources released a new web video today… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement tonight following President Obama’s State of the Union address:
“For the past year, we have heard the President and his Administration talk about the need to create jobs, grow the economy and pursue comprehensive energy legislation. However, their actions tell an entirely different… Read more »
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Exactly one year ago today, the newly confirmed Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar delivered his first speech to Department employees, outlining his vision for the future of the agency.
Unfortunately, Secretary Salazar’s rhetoric stands in stark contrast to… Read more »
Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding the Department of Labor’s November unemployment report:
“Yesterday, we witnessed the White House ‘jobs summit’- a high profile event that unfortunately looked more like a shiny object meant to distract the American people from the Administration’s failed stimulus and… Read more »
As the White House’s “jobs-but-not-job-creation-summit” kicks off, I wanted to point out a few recent articles that clearly demonstrate why the President made a serious mistake by not inviting officials from American energy companies to attend today’s event and offer their ideas. After all, the oil and natural gas industry supports 9.2 million American jobs and adds more than $1… Read more »
Tomorrow, President Obama will host a Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth at the White House where he promised he will “consider all good ideas to encourage and accelerate job creation.” However, it appears that the White House neglected to invite a wide range of officials from America’s all-of-the-above energy sectors to attend this event.
Since a diverse group of American energy… Read more »
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Background:
The Energy Information Administration reports that: “With limited domestic energy resources, South Korea is almost entirely dependent on imports to meet its energy consumption needs.”
On November 11th, the White House announced that President Obama would hold a Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth on December 3rd.
However, the Associated… Read more »
