Why do people support Obama when he supports drilling in the Arctic, offshore drilling, murdering prisoners, 27 unnecessary wars of choice, the suspension of habeas corpus, sending illegal drones knowing each kills an average of fifty innocent people.
If you want this irresponsible drilling stopped, contact the most powerful man on the planet… as if if would do you any good.
https://thepeaceresource.com/2013/09/16/stand-up-speak-out-take-action-contact-elected-officials/
(He is not on our side, he is in Shell’s pocket.)
Obama administration grants Arctic drilling approval to Shell
Cindy Shogan, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, called it the wrong choice.
“This decision puts the fate of the fragile Arctic Ocean, and our climate future, in the hands of Shell Oil,” she said in a statement.
Oil companies like Shell, which recently received the green light from the Obama administration to begin drilling in the Chukchi Sea as soon as this summer, have been trying to gain access to the Arctic for years. Now Obama has allowed it.
Theoretically, Obama could have tried to keep Shell and other oil companies out of the Arctic in a few different ways. The most stringent level of protection, according to Greenpeace’s Cassady Sharp, would be to declare the Chukchi Sea as a marine sanctuary — the marine equivalent to defining an area as wilderness. Oil and gas drilling is generally prohibited in marine areas designated as National Marine Sanctuaries by NOAA regulations.
But he chose not to. Instead, he told them to go ahead and take the risk. (With a known 75% chance of a spill.)
According to Niel Lawrence, project director for National Resources Defense Council’s Alaska Project, Obama could also use the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to withdraw the entire U.S. Arctic outer continental shelf from leasing eligibility —
But he chose not to.
Obama could cancel the lease that gives Shell — and other oil companies — the right to drill in the area, something that 18 senators … asked him to do in a letter earlier this week. The current lease runs through 2017, meaning that canceling the lease would prevent Shell and other companies from drilling in the area at least through 2017.
But he chose not to.
“Shell still has not submitted a new or updated Oil Spill Response Plan for 2015,” Lawrence said. “We also know that there still are no spill response methods proven effective in situ in an Arctic Ocean environment.”
But drilling in this sensitive area, knowing a spill is likely, Obama sided with Shell.
He is not on our side…. and never has been.
http://thinkprogress.org/…/obama-twitter-chat-arctic…/
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Reblogged this on PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS VOICE and commented:
“Why do people support Obama when he supports drilling in the Arctic, offshore drilling, murdering prisoners, 27 unnecessary wars of choice, the suspension of habeas corpus, sending illegal drones knowing each kills an average of fifty innocent people.
If you want this irresponsible drilling stopped, contact the most powerful man on the planet… as if if would do you any good.”
I was feeling a bit cynical when I wrote that, but facts remain. Obama has governed like a right-wing war profiteer. He embraced the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama doctrine of unending and unnecessary wars for the munitions cartels bottom line. Spending trillions to kill millions: murdering prisoners at home and innocents abroad.
War not the answer, but Obama has an agenda…
Bush only invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has invaded, attacked or occupied and exploited 27 nations. Obama enlarged and expanded the neo-con agenda. He is one of the most dangerous presidents in US history. He calls himself a progressive and governs like a right wing war hawk on steroids.
https://thepeaceresource.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/war-is-not-the-answer/