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MAGNES
4th May 2010, 03:42 PM
Drilling expansion dead in US Congress -Sen Nelson
04 May 2010 15:33:22 GMT
Source: Reuters

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WAT014404.htm

WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - Plans by U.S. President Barack Obama to expand oil drilling off the eastern coast of the United States are "dead on arrival" in Congress after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Senator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday.

Nelson, of Florida, made the prediction to reporters at a new conference where he and two other anti-drilling Democratic senators also called for a huge increase in the cap on oil-company liability related to environmental disasters.

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Don't know what happened, some don't understand
the speculation, but consider they accomplished a lot
of nefarious goals through "war on terror", first among
them, destroying Iraq as the swing producer and driving
oil prices through the roof. And through threats on Iran
oil went sky high to $150 June 2008, popped fast
during AIPAC conference. Exxon is a Rockefeller business,
BP was Rothchild, don't know their stakes now but
they still gain, they own futures markets outright.
ARAMCO too is their partnership, Saudi's .

Notice they are protected from liability.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/us/02liability.html

"Under the law that established the reserve, called the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, the operators of the offshore rig face no more than $75 million in liability for the damages that might be claimed by individuals, companies or the government."

MAGNES
4th May 2010, 03:45 PM
Gulf oil spill: The Halliburton connection
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/04/gulf-oil-spill-the-halliburton-connection.html

Gaillo
4th May 2010, 03:46 PM
boy. what a surprise.

Book
4th May 2010, 03:53 PM
Plans by U.S. President Barack Obama to expand oil drilling off the eastern coast of the United States are "dead on arrival" in Congress after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Senator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday.


Just like the Three Mile Island nuke leak killed the nuclear power plant industry expansion...lol.

:D

MAGNES
4th May 2010, 03:59 PM
Cap and Trade still live right now.

Why the double standards considering
all the information that came out, countries
laughing at the USA including Australia.
Australia won’t cap and trade (http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/04/27/lawrence-solomon-australia-won-t-cap-and-trade.aspx)
why is it still being considered.

Senate Cap and Trade Bill Skipping Committee Process
Will Be Drafted Behind Closed Doors
Senate Cap and Trade Bill Skipping Committee Process-Will Be Drafted Behind Closed Doors (http://www.redstate.com/jeffdunetz/2010/04/15/senate-cap-and-trade-bill-skipping-committee-process-will-be-drafted-behind-closed-doors/)

MAGNES
14th June 2010, 03:46 PM
Obama likens Gulf environmental disaster to 9/11
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.63a128958094fb519016d188cf557e8 3.101&show_article=1

President Barack Obama likened the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the September 11 attacks in an interview published on the eve of his fourth visit Monday to the stricken region.

"In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come," he told Politico.com.

Obama said he would be making a fresh bid to get Congress to pass a major energy and climate bill.

He was quoted as vowing to "move forward in a bold way in a direction that finally gives us the kind of future-oriented ... visionary energy policy that we so vitally need and has been absent for so long."

"One of the biggest leadership challenges for me going forward is going to be to make sure that we draw the right lessons from this disaster," he said.

Obama said he could not predict whether the nation would transition completely from an oil-based economy within his lifetime but that "now is the time for us to start making that transition and investing in a new way of doing business when it comes to energy."

Obama travels Monday to Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida on a two day visit to a region reeling from the effects of the worst oil spill in US history.

On Tuesday, he will address the crisis in a rare primetime speech to the nation from the Oval Office.