Another ass-kicking: Judge rejects Obama drilling ban again
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Obama job-killing machine get kicked in the ass one more time. They wanted federal judge Martin Feldman to dismiss the drillers’ lawsuit challenging their original moratorium. No dice.
Via Reuters:
A federal judge in New Orleans rejected on Wednesday the U.S. government’s request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its original 6-month deepwater drilling moratorium…The drilling halt was subsequently amended, so the government sought to toss out the Hornbeck lawsuit, arguing it was no longer relevant.
But U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, who earlier this summer blocked the first drilling halt, said in a 20-page ruling that the government’s amended moratorium offered “no substantial changes” from the first one.
More scathing criticism for Salazar, via the WSJ:
Judge Feldman also noted that in crafting the second moratorium, Mr. Salazar appeared to have relied heavily on documents and data that he had at the time of the first moratorium order. “Nearly every statement in the July 12 decision memorandum is anticipated by documents in the May 28 record, or by documents that were otherwise available to the Secretary before May 28,” the judge said.
Related: A bipartisan call to lift the de facto shallow drilling ban NOW:
Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) and Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) have again written to Department of the Interior Secretary Salazar regarding the issuance of new permits for shallow water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The letter, co-signed by 37 Democrats and Republicans from across the country, is the second letter that Rep. Green and Rep. Boustany have sent to Secretary Salazar reminding him of the significance of the Gulf Coast economy and urging the immediate issuance of new permits.
“Before the Deepwater Horizon disaster, new shallow water drilling permits were being issued at the rate of 10-15 per week,” Rep. Green stated. “Since the shallow water moratorium was lifted on May 28, a total of 4 new permits have been issued.”
In a letter to Secretary Salazar sent May 20, Reps. Green and Boustany with 54 of their colleagues warned of the potential impact of losing shallow water oil and natural gas production. Since then, 14 rigs have been idled in the Gulf which represents 30% of the shallow water fleet. If the pace of new permits does not accelerate by the end of September, over 70% of the shallow water rigs will be inactive.
“There are thousands of jobs directly connected to shallow water drilling,” Rep. Green continued. “At a time when the economy is still coming back from the worst recession in recent memory, we just can’t afford to lose more jobs. My colleagues and I continue to share concern over this de facto moratorium and the deepwater moratorium as domestic energy production is not only vital to energy independence, but to the Gulf Coast economy.”
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Now I can get back to work, right? Let’s see what new trick they will try now. I bet that we won’t be able to get permits or the requirements have changed to the extreme.
Obama should just make himself king. . . that way he doesn’t have to worry about whether what he is doing is legal or not. Those pesky laws that everyone else has to obey shouldn’t restrain Obama. His problem is that judges are dumb, not that he is wrong. That’s what the constitutional professor teaches.
This bho and team will file another suit to keep the ban. They are dragging this out for the six months or longer. These slug slimes will not give up till all rigs are gone from the Gulf! Gads, I detest these people.
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Well when you’re always bent over, your ass is always sticking up.
This just means Salazar will have to write new regs to accomplish what the judge won’t allow. We have to kill these jobs to build GREEN JOBS.
Salazar’s brother, John Salazar, is up for re-election in Grand Junction, CO area for US Rep – wonder if this will affect his election? Naah, probably can “find” a bunch of votes in someone’s car trunk to ensure a “fair” election.
Can we get a judge to impeach bho?
I’m sure Doug is all over this already but another racist, clingy Teabagger has gone nuts taking over the Discovery Channel office in Silver Springs MD and taking hostages.
The judge is obviously a Bush appointee.
Imam Obama will not be denied in his quest to end USA oil production …
Who said global warming was a hoax.
Too bad the courts can’t kick him right out of office.
Asian male with bombs strapped to his body.
Bombs or bundles of cash for Hillary and Gore?
Me thinks emperor or god. King is just so….common.
Does judge Martin Feldman go by the nickname “Marty?”
This is criminal malfeasance. I see jail time in their futures. Elections have consequences, so does involvement in criminal
Marxistenterprises.I’m sure he’s pis*sed because Discovery cancelled Extreme Loggers. I am…
Dems are insistent on killing jobs in the fossil fuel industry, and in Red States in particular.
How much of our money has been spent trying to kill these jobs? Obama has taken our Democracy to a new low, but has reinforced the value of our constitution. May our constitution win in the end.
Why is that idiot wearing a cowboy hat?
What?
Oh, you mean the OTHER idiot.
He likes to think that because he’s from Colorado he’s a Westerner.
He’s no more from The West than Governor Ahnold is. Being from a western state doesn’t make you “Western”.
Does it follow, then, that being from Arkansas doesn’t make one inbred?
yes; thankfully, Hangfire.
Nah, he’s probably Uighur. Mark Steyn was making Uighur jokes all day today on Rush’s show.
The defacto ban conitnues however, as they are not giving out any new permits.
Problem is that we can’t even sue them for it, as you can’t sue the and Fed employee who is “just doing their job”…
LOL….. good one Dexter.
Hmmm, I KNOW I had a blank permit form around here someplace…..oh, here’s a note from Joe saying that he used the last one, and that he couldn’t find the form to order more forms. He’ll have to order more reorder forms for the forms…..stop back in a few weeks, okay?
Since trial lawyers often vote Demoncrap, the drilling ban is part of OweBowMao’s scheme to keep them busy.
TY, Judge Martin Feldman.
Typo, Michelle.
InteriorInferior Secretary Ken SalazarWashington state Gov. Gregoire(sp?) found 1,000 ballots in a warehouse and a poll workers home, then found a judge of another color to certify they were legal, voila she was gov. to be.
This is all well and good, but we STILL don’t have a return to drilling in the Gulf.
As inept as these fools are, the drillers should just start drilling and waiting for obama’s dimwits to figure it out could take a year or so.
The Chicago on the Potomac crowd have probably added Judge Feldman’s name to their “list”.
Gov. Jindal should keep screaming about the number out of work because of these insane bans. The people of LA desparately need the employment and we desparately need the oil.
I watched most of the coverage of the 5 yr. anniversary of Katrina and could only think – what a difference the tragedy of New Orleans might have been if Bobby Jindal had been governor in 2005. Judging by his response to the oil spill, New Orleans would still be in a state of emergency had Obamba been president.
YES, loud and clear, the closer to Nov. 2nd the louder.
We don’t need no stinking jobs!
LA should issue permits to drill and when the feds complain tell them you have issued your ruling now enforce it.
No, only Congress has the Impeachment power.
Salazar ought to be impeached over this.
Holder ought to be impeached over spiking the New Panther Party case and the AZ lawsuit, among other things.