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| California Will Block Oil And Coal Shipments, Risks Constitutional Battle |
| 2018-02-08 |
| [Daily Caller] California officials plan on preventing the federal government from transporting oil and gas using existing pipelines in the state, according to a report Wednesday from The San Francisco Chronicle. Officials on the California Coastal Commission are urging the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to rescind plans allowing companies to drill for oil off the coast. They are still hoping for an exemption from the oil drilling plan, that Florida has received. "Given how unpopular oil development in coastal waters is in California, it is certain that the state would not approve new pipelines or allow use of existing pipelines to transport oil from new leases onshore," coastal commissioners Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Controller Betty Yee, and state Department of Finance Director Michael Cohen wrote in a letter Wednesday to the BOEM. The agency will also be holding a meeting in Sacramento Thursday to take public comment on President Donald Trump’s administration’s offshore drilling plans. The public question session will not be enough for a state with a population of nearly 40 million people, officials say. Trump issued executive orders in 2017, nixing former President Barack Obama-era regulations on offshore drilling that are worth $288 million over a decade. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Cadillac Desert |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-02-08 18:45 |
| #10 Then cut them completely off. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-02-08 18:35 |
| #9 Damn Bourgeoisie, won't let any of us proletariat in the energy business catch a break... but if they put it that way, they'd have problems, so they're "Saving Mama Planet" instead. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-02-08 18:30 |
| #8 Time to revisit the Colorado River Compact allocations. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-08 17:46 |
| #7 "Unilateral Ultimatums are only bad when the other person does it" is a sure recipe for (armed) conflict. When you stop negotiating the countdown begins. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-02-08 15:52 |
| #6 One might wonder if they're really desperate for Trump to declare martial law in California in order to stop these sorts of things. That could be their desire so they can kick off their Glorious (Utterly doomed to damn near instant failure) Revolution. And yes, their leaders are cynical enough to believe that 1. They will win and 2. None of them will have to pay the price for the Revolution. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-02-08 11:09 |
| #5 California is running out of money and they can't tax their way out of it. They can drill to earn money to pay the pensions for state employees. Or they can not-pay those pensions and watch the state suddenly go GOP as union members vote against the betrayal the way the rust belt did. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-02-08 09:55 |
| #4 It's the same people doing this as having a hissy fit over network neutrality, right? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-02-08 08:04 |
| #3 Are these not considered strategic defense materials? Act accordingly against anyone who interferes with the flow of these strategic defense materials. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-08 07:07 |
| #2 It's just hilarious how the outdated, discredited racist idea of States Rights is suddenly making a big comeback with Democrats. It's as if they never had any principles in the first place and wanted to dominate us with the federal government the whole time. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 2018-02-08 03:27 |
| #1 Cut off their water and electricity. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-02-08 01:53 |