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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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.
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"
