BP... follow the money

[bigbulls]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...050404118.html

The decision by the department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP's lease at Deepwater Horizon a "categorical exclusion" from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 -- and BP's lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf.

[falcon]

The MMS has been totally corrupt for decades. The MMS got the US government sued by native American tribes because they played fast and loose with tribal oil and gas leases. Folks from MMS have routinely turned their backs while oil companies have stolen oil from Indian tribes.

Yes, Virginia; native American tribes are not allowed to emulate other landowners and sell their oil and gas leases to the highest bidder: Federal law requires That MMS to do it for them.

The scumbags at MMS never gave any serious consideration to a blowout of that well or any other offshore well.

While the MMS assessed the environmental impact of drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico on three occasions in 2007 -- including a specific evaluation of BP's Lease 206 at Deepwater Horizon -- in each case it played down the prospect of a major blowout.

In one assessment, the agency estimated that "a large oil spill" from a platform would not exceed a total of 1,500 barrels and that a "deepwater spill," occurring "offshore of the inner Continental shelf," would not reach the coast. In another assessment, it defined the most likely large spill as totaling 4,600 barrels and forecast that it would largely dissipate within 10 days and would be unlikely to make landfall.

"They never did an analysis that took into account what turns out to be the very real possibility of a serious spill," said Holly Doremus, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley who has reviewed the documents.

The MMS must be totally torn apart and rebuilt from scratch.

[bergall]

Originally Posted by falcon

The MMS has been totally corrupt for decades. The MMS got the US government sued by native American tribes because they played fast and loose with tribal oil and gas leases. Folks from MMS have routinely turned their backs while oil companies have stolen oil from Indian tribes.

Yes, Virginia; native American tribes are not allowed to emulate other landowners and sell their oil and gas leases to the highest bidder: Federal law requires That MMS to do it for them.

The scumbags at MMS never gave any serious consideration to a blowout of that well or any other offshore well.



The MMS must be totally torn apart and rebuilt from scratch.

Two Words: CRIMINAL MALFEASANCE

[Knightia]

Fed controls it all pretty much anyways dont they ( that is federal land etc) a lot of the west is involved( many western states are made up of various federal land holdings)650+_ million acres or so?

The top man in office can also pretty much do what he likes & i would think the one responsable(In this case BO along with his greeni friends & the courts)

I was reading in the local paper here recently in Wy & on the net about -Utah sueing the fed over( federal) land rights & states rights & land use issues.

Had to do with mining & drilling i think- the fed making the lands off limits to such things. And in doing so depriving the state & its ppls of moneys, jobs, funding to there school systems etc if i understood it right.

I wish them luck. They( Utah) as well as Wy & SD i believe just passed some gun laws this yr exempting guns made within the state from federal laws & controls ,taxes etc.( a few states will be sueing the fed over that to)
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Ran across a more current one involving BLM leases/land here, energy production in Wy etc. ( i have a feeling things could get pretty darn expensive ) under ruler O bama ( lucky ppl are smart enough not to send a demo from here to congress or the senate.
( dont know what gov dave or the ppl who elected him( or obama) thought would happen )
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Backlog of protested Wyo leases persists at BLM

MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press writer | Posted: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 12:45 am | No Comments Posted
Font Size: CHEYENNE -- Environmental protests, uncertainty over endangered species and a change in presidential administrations have bogged down oil and gas leasing in Wyoming.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has issued just 51 of nearly 1,200 oil and gas leases sold at its 11 lease auctions since June 2008.

The backlog prompted Gov. Dave Freudenthal to "implore" Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, a fellow Democrat, to act in a January letter. Yet the backlog is likely to grow when the BLM holds its next lease auction today.

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regio...94a7b5351.html

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I personally think our country will be buying overseas oil- including from the middle east for quite awhile to come- including from those involved with terrorists & those run by dictators etc in the world.

Read also not so long ago where the airforce was just going to start a production plant in Mt etc- to produce synfuels made from coal- so the middleeast etc would not have control over our military or be the major source of its vast vast amounts of oil & fuel it uses & needs.( said fuel tested very well in there engines)
And that- that all changed( along with a few other things) with obama - along with Waxman & the epa etc that killed the whole deal.


Love to see them figure a way to run aircraft etc on windmills ( that aint going to happen either of course) ( just like the additional drilling)

[Knightia]

Cant find the newer story mentioning obama & his policy/poltical changes & the killing of this program etc in it ( hard to go back & find things for me)

And O bamy ^ his buds are responable for killing this one to.

( ya go begging wall street for money for the militarys programs to keep them running- just in case.
And whos controling them.

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Air Force prods Wall Street to invest in coal-to-liquids plants
Looking for oil alternatives

MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press writer with staff reports | Posted: Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:00 am |

MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, Mont. - On a wind-swept air base near the Missouri River, the Air Force has launched an ambitious plan to wean itself from foreign oil by turning to a new and unlikely source: coal.

The Air Force wants to build at its Malmstrom base in central Montana the first piece of what it hopes will be a nationwide network of facilities that would convert domestic coal into cleaner-burning synthetic fuel.

Air Force officials said the plants could help neutralize a national security threat by tapping into the country's abundant coal reserves. And by offering itself as a partner in the Malmstrom plant, the Air Force hopes to prod Wall Street investors - nervous over coal's role in climate change - to sink money into similar plants nationwide.

"We're going to be burning fossil fuels for a long time, and there's three times as much coal in the ground as there are oil reserves," said Air Force Assistant Secretary William Anderson. "Guess what? We're going to burn coal."


In a recent letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Waxman wrote that a promise to control greenhouse gas emissions from synthetic fuels was not enough. Waxman and the committee's ranking Republican, Virginia's Tom Davis, cited a provision in the energy bill approved by Congress last year that bars federal agencies from entering contracts for synthetic fuels unless they emit the same or fewer greenhouse gases as petroleum.
Anderson said the Air Force will meet the law's requirements.

"They'd like to have (coal-to-liquids) because of security concerns - a reliable source of power. They're not thinking beyond that one issue," Waxman said. "(Climate change) is also a national security concern."



http://www.trib.com/articles/2008/03...13007fa108.txt

Climate change

[Knightia]

So kill off the coal to jet & synfuels plants idea, dont fund it or try to refine & prefect it further etc.

What cant GE make any money on that one?


But
Whos funding the project down below ? Could it be ....
Sugar daddyunclesammy the mack longlegs?( green jobs program?)

Oh right its to save the planet & kill the evil Co2,s from melting us.& the lil sunbeams( so al said?)... but its not really evil- because we can sell it?

By DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER
Star-Tribune energy reporter
Sunday, January 25, 2009 2:06 AM MST
In a competitive rush to win a coal-gasification research center, communities from 14 Wyoming counties are deep in self-examination to find the perfect 35-plus acres of land.
Not any plot of land will do.
It must be relatively flat, free of physical or legal obstacles from deep below the surface to high above, and easily accessible to power, water and roads -- as well as a talented labor pool and educational system.
"The real distinguishing factor is the land, and what it would cost the university to get on the land," said Robert Barnes, president and CEO of the Casper Area Economic Development Alliance.
A Feb. 9 deadline is fast approaching in a site selection process for the University of Wyoming and GE Energy's High Plains Gasification-Advanced Technology Center. The partnership aims to tailor the greenhouse gas-cutting technology to Wyoming's high altitude and vast sub-bituminous coal resource.


Essentially, gasifying coal amounts to "refining" the feedstock in a manner that allows for the generation of electricity while capturing pollutants such as carbon dioxide. CO2 can be stored underground or marketed to various industries along with myriad other byproducts