Obama bans oil drilling 'permanently' in millions of acres of ocean

[pineapplemike]

If you work in the refinery as a Californian that would have been more work for you supposing the prices supported drilling in the arctic. Then again I'm assuming they mean around Alaska and not around somewhere else.

Nah I'm on a small field producing about 60 barrels a day, just hangin in there through this glut. I got hired over 2 years ago back when oil was $100+

[TheReal_ND]

60 a day? Lol dafuq?

[pineapplemike]

Haha I should have italicized small oilfield. Only two employees plus the owners and a few secretaries, it's enough to keep us going

*but not by much

[Montegriffo]

If you work in the refinery as a Californian that would have been more work for you supposing the prices supported drilling in the arctic. Then again I'm assuming they mean around Alaska and not around somewhere else.

Also some areas of the Atlantic around sensitive coral regions.

[TheReal_ND]

There's coral that far north?

[Montegriffo]

There's coral that far north?

Not in the North, in the Atlantic.

[Penner]

I think it's going to be interesting to see how Trump and his administration is going to handle this. Of course, this ban (which comes from an actual 1950s law) which would mean that Trump has to go to court but then again, the Rs kind of already do control the Judicial Branch which just screams out how this country is so fucked over. In terms that everything is so corrupt and political that no one, nor no branch of government can just act on the benefit of the people, by the people, but for their own gains both politically and personally.

[Montegriffo]

I think it's going to be interesting to see how Trump and his administration is going to handle this. Of course, this ban (which comes from an actual 1950s law) which would mean that Trump has to go to court but then again, the Rs kind of already do control the Judicial Branch which just screams out how this country is so fucked over. In terms that everything is so corrupt and political that no one, nor no branch of government can just act on the benefit of the people, by the people, but for their own gains both politically and personally.

"No president has ever rescinded a previous president's permanent withdrawal of offshore areas from oil and gas development."

Don't suppose that will stop him trying though.....

[Haumana]

"No president has ever rescinded a previous president's permanent withdrawal of offshore areas from oil and gas development."

More of this bullshit about unprecedented, ritual & customs that the Establishment has been crying about already. Yet, when the columns are totalled out they have no underpinning law to point towards. The whole reason Trump was elected was to thumb a nose at the Establishment and their self-serving gentlemen agreements. Fuck em.

[Penner]

I think it's going to be interesting to see how Trump and his administration is going to handle this. Of course, this ban (which comes from an actual 1950s law) which would mean that Trump has to go to court but then again, the Rs kind of already do control the Judicial Branch which just screams out how this country is so fucked over. In terms that everything is so corrupt and political that no one, nor no branch of government can just act on the benefit of the people, by the people, but for their own gains both politically and personally.

"No president has ever rescinded a previous president's permanent withdrawal of offshore areas from oil and gas development."

Don't suppose that will stop him trying though.....

We live in interesting time Mont.