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(CNN)Looking to cement his environmental record, President Barack Obama took new action Tuesday barring offshore drilling in areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans indefinitely.
Obama relied on a 63-year-old law to make his moves, which will prevent future leasing of certain offshore areas for oil rights. His successor, Donald Trump, who has promised a policy allowing more US energy production, would face legal challenges if he attempted to reverse Obama's order.
Both Canada and the US have announced this.President Barack Obama banned new offshore oil and gas development in more than 100 million acres of the U.S. Arctic and undersea canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, an announcement certain to provoke a fight with the Republican-led Congress and his successor in the White House.
In a announcement coordinated between two of the world’s biggest oil producers, Canada committed to freeze new offshore leasing in its waters and review the matter every five years.
"These actions, and Canada’s parallel actions, protect a sensitive and unique ecosystem that is unlike any other region on Earth," Obama said in a written statement. "They reflect the scientific assessment that even with the high safety standards that both our countries have put in place, the risks of an oil spill in this region are significant and our ability to clean up from a spill in the region’s harsh conditions is limited."
Eyeing Trump, Obama takes new action to ban Arctic drilling - CNNPolitics.com
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...l-drilling-on-millions-of-acres-of-u-s-waters
Both Canada and the US have announced this.
My opinion- the right decision
Eyeing Trump, Obama takes new action to ban Arctic drilling - CNNPolitics.com
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...l-drilling-on-millions-of-acres-of-u-s-waters
Both Canada and the US have announced this.
My opinion- the right decision
Libs are dreaming if they think obamas order cannot be reversed
All congress has to do is change the law
Although presidents have modified decisions made under the act from predecessors, they have never rescinded them altogether. A legal opinion from the U.S. attorney general in 1938 on similar designations under a different law said they “do not imply a power to undo.” And there have been no federal court rulings on the offshore energy statute.
When Harper was in, I heard rumours that the fed was looking into Tuktoyaktuk being a deep-water port, with a pipeline going down the MacKenzie River. Ships could go east to Europe or west to Asia.
Do your research. Not as easy as you think
MacKenzie Valley and that never came thru.
Eyeing Trump, Obama takes new action to ban Arctic drilling - CNNPolitics.com
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...l-drilling-on-millions-of-acres-of-u-s-waters
Both Canada and the US have announced this.
My opinion- the right decision
Present your case if you have one
If obama had found a loophole in the law congress can change the law
Hope not. One thing, though, a road to Tuk and construction of, say, a container port or grain port would boost the economy in about the most depressed area of Canada. I think there's a big icebreaker being built now.
It's all depending on the ice-free shipping season continuing to grow, I guess.
Obama moves to thwart will of the people, block incoming President from acting as the people asked.
A U.S President is not delegated the power to legislate (Article I, Section 1, Clause 1, All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.)
Executive Orders are not typically subject to legal action, unless they violate a law directly.
They are instructions of policy from the Chief Executive to his subordinate agencies on how to deal with issues that are in their pervue.
Any order issued by a President can be undone by a subsequent President. Hence, the title "Chief Executive." :coffeepap:
Obama is invoking a 1953 law that already exists.
Obama expected to invoke 1953 law to block offshore drilling.html
How can he do this while on his Hawaii vacation?
But seriously, GOP Senators threatened two years ago to do away with the filibuster on legislation. McConnell invented the nuclear option last decade but didn't use it. The GOP messaging machine continues to dominate DEMs.
And there are a dozen DEM Senators out of 25 up for reelection in 2018 who are at risk for this type of legislation .
Article I, Section 1, Clause 1, All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
EO's are not law. However, a law does not prevent crime. The supreme Law of the land, the 1789 Constitution does not enforce itself and for that reason cannot prevent government Officials committing crime and usurpation. Federal government corruption (crime and usurpation) "continues" only with the complicity of the House in Congress (House has the power of impeachment (Article I, Section 2, Clause 5, and the power of the purse, Article I, Section 7). House, in Congress, corruption "continues" only with the complicity of citizen Voters (Article I, Section 2, Clause 1. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, ...)
No not at all. Pls review Exxon Valdez for artic oil spills. Should help you get up to speed.
Obama is invoking a law that already exists. See post # 14.
True enough, but Harper was a failure.
I did.
MacKenzie Valley and that never came thru.
Ah, climate change deniers just want to go on spoiling environments and causing global warming. Idiots.
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The mere fact that 97% of climate scientists agree that AGW is happening as we speak means nothing to you? Or do you hold to the conspiracy theory nonsense?No one denies climate change
We all know that ice ages followed by global warming is natural and inevitable
It's the man-made-global-warming hoax that failed to sell
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