Court strikes down Obama fracking rules for public lands
Source: Reuters
Court strikes down Obama fracking rules for public lands
By David Bailey and Ernest Scheyder
Reuters
June 22, 2016
(Reuters) - A federal judge has struck down the Obama administration's rules for hydraulic fracturing on public lands, a victory for oil and gas producers and state regulators who opposed the rules as an egregious overreach.
The ruling, which the White House vowed to appeal, halts the administration's efforts to address what it sees as safety concerns in the industry and reverses what producers had seen as a first step toward full federal regulation of all fracking activity.
The U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lacked Congressional authority to set fracking regulations for federal and Indian lands, U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl in Wyoming ruled late on Tuesday.
BLM's rules, issued in their final form in March 2015, would have required companies to provide data on chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing and to take steps to prevent leakage from oil and gas wells on federally owned land.
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riversedge
(69,721 posts)DemMomma4Sanders
(274 posts)The tenth will side with OBama, then what?
Will this actually move onto the supreme court in eventuality?
After oh say Ten years and 3000 more fracking induced eqrthquakes?
Republicans(they brought this lawsuit backed by oil industry groups) are a damn sore on our planet.
former9thward
(31,802 posts)This was an Obama appointed judge.
DemMomma4Sanders
(274 posts)This is terrible!
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Javaman
(62,439 posts)sprinting toward the cliff.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)the next 2 decades are going to be a very rough ride and the nations of this world that haven't been doing anything to mitigate CC will suddenly wake up and realize that they waited too long to do something. the panic will set in. that's what scares me.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)One of the reasons Mrs. 'Droid and I moved to the top of Maine was because we sensed some bad times were coming and wanted to move to the edge of the petri dish.
We're not survivalists or anything, but we could see the heartland and urban areas were going to become too unpredictable. We heat our house with locally grown wood, are building a garden, and next summer we'll have a chicken coop. It's a start. Maybe living in a rural area will help us remain a part of a local community without having to follow the national slice of lemmings over the cliff.
(note - just found out a group of lemmings is called a "slice"
Javaman
(62,439 posts)Mrs. Java and I are looking for a piece of land in Oregon for much the same reasons.
we want to leave her kids something they can at least live on.
cheers.
chapdrum
(930 posts)they're continuing to (in this case) frack. When HRC was SecState, she actively promoted this protracted suicide.
Britain (thanks Cameron and ilk) is now doing it, too - and in pristine areas to boot.
The general indifference will assist in doing us in.
chapdrum
(930 posts)will pale in comparison to what we're already starting to experience with the weather.
Javaman
(62,439 posts)not so much the weather, but when weather actually becomes the main concern of the people of this nation and the panic sets in. Set in in both the people and even more terrifying, the politicians.
because the politicians will just react without a plan and the people of this nation will continue to suffer that much more.
chapdrum
(930 posts)"...because the politicians will just react without a plan and the people of this nation will continue to suffer that much more."
Yep, that's working well for the politicians so far. We think they run for office because they're civic-minded, etc.
Looks like 9 out of 10 could give a rat's arse.
chapdrum
(930 posts)comin' up.
Yee haw!