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"The President's plan is flawed because it fails to open the Alaskan and Pacific coasts to drilling but allows oil rigs off the eastern Gulf of Mexico, [...]

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While the moratorium devastates the US economy, the oil jobs are going elsewhere. Obama and his friends are profiting on this catastrophe while the American taxpayers lose. A federal judge finally stops the madness of the moratorium. [...]

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SHANGHAI ? China's leaders have ordered oil companies to beef up safety precautions for offshore oil drilling to prevent calamities similar to the Gulf of [...]

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The U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, the judge who just overturned the White House's offshore drilling ban this past Tuesday, has up to $15,000 in investments in Transocean Ltd. [...]

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Elsewhere, he wrote: "If some drilling-equipment parts are flawed, is it rational to say all are? Are all airplanes a danger because one was? All oil [...]

Send by AlexBay412

In his reverence for certainty and belief that absolutes are capable of being summoned into existence ? on countless subjects, with oil drilling, food safety, and war itself ? the president is not actually particularly unusual; he is merely reflecting the prejudices of people who exaggerate the malleability of man [...]

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Judge lifts offshore drilling ban as `overbearing' NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil [...]

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On Tuesday, US District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans ruled against a six-month ban on all oil drilling in water that is more than 500 feet deep in [...]

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On Tuesday a federal judge ruled against a six month deepwater drilling moratorium which was imposed by the Obama administration after the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the subsequent environmental catastrophe caused by the oil and methane eruption from the uncontrolled well over the past two months [...]

Send by ColdWarBaby1947

Six months? Moratorium? I've got a great idea. From now on, someone convicted of murder, rape or any violent crime, should be slapped on the wrist and told they've been naughty. The stone age ended, we moved one. The bronze age ended, we moved on. Ages come and go, which is what allows us to evolve. The oil age is over. Time to move on. [...]

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Salazar said in a statement Tuesday evening that the new order will contain additional information making clear why the six-month drilling pause was necessary in the wake of the Gulf oil spill. The judge in New Orleans who struck down the moratorium earlier in the day complained there wasn't enough justification for it. [...]

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"Drilling through the salt layer will create significant risks," the GRFA warned. BP's failure to plug the Deepwater Horizon leak has shown that the oil [...]

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The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry. [...]

Send by DaveCanada

* Salazar says new moratorium can be adjusted|| * Demarcations can be made on reservoirs|| WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken|Salazar will reissue a deepwater offshore drilling ban that was|blocked by a federal judge, but [...]

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Big oil wants us to believe they are helping the "little guy" by lifting the oil drilling moratorium. Actually, the oil company shareholders have the most to gain including Judge Feldman. [...]

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The Real Cost of Obama's Drill Ban is the lack of America's participation in oil production while creating a situation backed with a 2 billion dollar US commitment to Soros-Petrobas for deep water oil production and better availability of equipment during the moratorium on US connected drilling. We are being put on our knees to a new master in oil [...]

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Most people likely hoped the biggest news of the day on Tuesday would be the oil spill stopped. But it's the moratorium placed on offshore drilling has been upended by a federal judge, so drill, baby, drill will go on. [...]

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NEW ORLEANS ? The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported [...]

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If one faction of the deepwater drilling debate continues to deny any serious risk of more exploratory drilling - an example of this denial would be the court injunction, just now successfully obtained by oil industry attorneys, overturning the Federal exploratory drilling moratorium in the deepwater Gulf - it is fair and appropriate to state the u [...]

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A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Michaek Kunzelman, Associated Press [...]

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Oil companies and drillers rushing to Brazil following the U.S. moratorium on deep water drilling may find tighter regulations there as well following BP's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. [...]

Send by zomaslaus

Patience they say my friend, is a virtueMany people believe Obama was right to put a temporary ban to correct the mistakes in the oil drilling in the United States [...]

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The New Orleans ? Louisiana judge who overturned the Obama administration ban for six months on drilling for oil in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, large investments in oil and gas industry, according Told U.S. District Judge Marti [...]

Send by SovereignMind

Gulf Oil Disaster. There's something strange about this. The administration commits to sending 2 billion dolars to Petrobras( a Brazilian owned oil company) for deep sea oil excavation, while placing a moratorium on deep sea drilling here at home. [...]

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* Salazar due to testify at hearing at 1500 GMT * BP continues to ramp up oil collection efforts * BP shares up over 1 pct after falling to 13-year lows (Adds BP capturing more oil, updates share [...]