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President Trump’s Poll Numbers Boom with the Economy
by JOHN NOLTE
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Despite the elitist media’s malevolent intentions to distract from President Trump’s historical successes in the first year of his presidency, word and the results are getting through to the only people that matter, voters. And the latest job approval numbers for the president reflect this.
Even the Gallup poll, which has been an outlier with its bad news, has Trump at 40 percent approve (55 percent disapprove) after weeks in the mid-thirties. One of the reasons Gallup is an outlier is that it polls all U.S. adults, rather than screen for registered or likely voters. For a time, Trump’s disapproval in this poll was over 60 percent.
The Rasmussen poll, one of the most accurate of the 2016 presidential election, shows Trump at a pretty healthy 45 percent approve, 53 percent disapprove. Better still, the president has been in the mid-forties going back to December 22.
The rebound can also be seen on the Real Clear Politics poll of polls. A few weeks ago, Trump was upside down with a dismal 37 percent approve, 58 percent disapprove average — or 21 points underwater.
As of today he sits at a much healthier average of 41 percent approve, 56 percent disapprove — or 15 points underwater, which is an overall improvement of six points.
But…
If you remove the polls taken before December 14, old polls that do not reflect the boom of good economic news or the passage of historic tax reform that came near the end of the year, Trump’s job approval average leaps to 44 percent and his disapproval drops to just 55 percent — rebound of 10 points since December 16.
While our elitist media continues its relentless and unprecedented attacks against Trump — obsessing over castle intrigue, the Russian collusion conspiracy theories, and chaos narratives, the American people are seeing something completely different in the actual, proof-positive results coming out of the Trump administration…
A booming economy, ISIS pretty much destroyed without us having to add a single boot on the ground (that we know of), regulations slashed, energy production and exploration booming, superb judges in record numbers confirmed, a stock market zooming to highs that seemed impossible only a year ago. Black, Hispanic, and overall unemployment sit at record or near-record lows. And so much more…
Trump is not only getting things done, as the indisputable results show, he getting these big things done efficiently and competently.
And in the end, this is all the voters care about or should care about.
If America is great again, that tide lifts all boats and the media hysteria and propaganda becomes white noise.
Overall, Trump’s greatest accomplishment in his first year was in not allowing himself to be distracted by all the nonsense involving leaks, Robert Mueller, and an elitist media that has shown little regard for the truth (e.g. Last week’s narrative: Trump wanted to win so bad he colluded with the Russians to win. This week’s narrative: Trump did not want to win).
Rather than get embroiled in all the drama, he kept a close eye on the only ball that matters — the economy. And not only is he better off for it, so is our country,
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Trump moves to vastly expand offshore drilling
MATTHEW DALY Associated Press
Arctic OffShore Drilling
In this April 17, 2015 file photo, with the Olympic Mountains in the background, a small boat crosses in front of an oil drilling rig as it arrives in Port Angeles, Wash. aboard a transport ship after traveling across the Pacific. Royal Dutch Shell hopes to use the rig for exploratory drilling during the summer open-water season in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast, if it can get the permits. Royal Dutch Shell cleared a major hurdle Monday, May 11, 2015, when The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved Shell's exploration plan. However, this isn't the final step that Shell needs for Arctic drilling. (Daniella Beccaria/seattlepi.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday moved to vastly expand offshore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans with a plan that would open up federal waters off the California coast for the first time in more than three decades.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday moved to vastly expand offshore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans with a plan that would open up federal waters off the California coast for the first time in more than three decades.
The new five-year drilling plan also could open new areas of oil and gas exploration in areas off the East Coast from Georgia to Maine, where drilling has been blocked for decades. Many lawmakers in those states support offshore drilling, although the Democratic governors of North Carolina and Virginia oppose drilling off their state coasts.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, also opposes offshore drilling near his state, as do the three Democratic governors on the West Coast.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced the plan Thursday, saying that responsible development of offshore energy resources would boost jobs and economic security while providing billions of dollars to fund conservation along U.S. coastlines.
"This is a draft program," Zinke said in a conference call with reporters. "Nothing is final yet, and our department is continuing to engage the American people to get to our final product."
Industry groups praised the announcement, which would be the most expansive offshore drilling proposal in decades. The proposal follows President Donald Trump's executive order in April encouraging more drilling rights in federal waters, part of the administration's strategy to help the U.S. achieve "energy dominance" in the global market.
A coalition of more than 60 environmental groups denounced the plan, saying in a joint statement that it would impose "severe and unacceptable harm" to America's oceans, coastal economies, public health and marine life.
"These ocean waters are not President Trump's personal playground. They belong to all Americans and the public wants them preserved and protected, not sold off to multinational oil companies," read the statement, which was signed by leaders of the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, League of Conservation Voters and other environmental groups.
"This extreme proposal is a shameful giveaway" to the oil and gas industry, which supported Trump in the election campaign, the groups said.
The proposal comes less than a week after the Trump administration proposed to rewrite or kill rules on offshore oil and gas drilling imposed after the deadly 2010 rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and triggered a massive oil spill that continued for months.
The administration called the rules an unnecessary burden on industry and said rolling them back will encourage more energy production. Environmentalists said Trump would raise the risk of more deadly oil spills.
The Obama administration imposed tougher rules in response to the BP spill. The rules targeted blowout preventers, massive valve-like devices designed to prevent spills from wells on the ocean floor. The preventer used by BP failed. The rules required more frequent inspections of those and other devices and dictated that experts onshore monitor drilling of highly complex wells in real time.
Peter Thiel Reportedly Mulling Creation Of Fox News Competitor
Venture capitalist and tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel is reportedly interested in creating a new cable news network, one that would rival Fox News as one of the few with conservative leanings.
Reports of Thiel’s alleged intentions surfaced Wednesday in excerpts of a book by Michael Wolff, who often produces columns springing from his “imagination rather than from actual knowledge of events,” according to the New Republic.
Reports of Thiel’s alleged intentions surfaced Wednesday in excerpts of a book by Michael Wolff, who often produces columns springing from his “imagination rather than from actual knowledge of events,” according to the New Republic.
BuzzFeed News, though, says it was able to confirm that Thiel has been exploring the initiative through “two sources familiar with the matter.”
Wolff’s story claims Thiel had been working with former Fox News executive Roger Ailes before his death in the very beginning of the planning. Thiel, according to BuzzFeed News, is continuing to pursue the possibility even after Ailes’ passing, having representatives meet with members of the Mercer’s, a highly wealthy family that financially supports certain right-wing political causes.
Media companies aren’t usually considered the best investment in modern times, however, Thiel’s purported interest in establishing a conservative news network wouldn’t be too surprising. A Facebook board member and cofounder of PayPal, Thiel is one of the few in Silicon Valley that unabashedly supports President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
After originally giving $2 million to a super-PAC supporting then-contender Carly Fiorina’s candidacy in Aug. 2015, he soon switched his allegiance and announced in Oct. 2016 that he planned on donating $1.25 million to Trump, then-Republican presidential nominee.
Several weeks after that, Thiel spoke at a press conference in Washington, D.C., to double down on his endorsement of Trump and defend his donation. He also spoke at the Republican National Convention in support of the party and Trump, becoming the first openly gay person to do so at the political event. There were even recent reports of Thiel possibly working in the Trump administration as a top intelligence adviser.
Thiel always seems to be floated in discussions as a possible key backer or contributor for the so-called next big thing.
Canadian Province Increases Minimum Wage To $14/hr. Wanna Guess How Businesses Are Responding?
On January 1, the Canadian province of Ontario raised its minimum wage from $11.60/hour to $14/hour. How are businesses responding? Probably exactly how you would expect.
According to the Bank of Canada, because of the forced wage hike there will be an estimated 60,000 fewer jobs available in Ontario by 2019. Not just that, businesses are beginning to do what businesses do: react to changes in the market. Both Pizza Hut and Subway — to name a few — notified their customers that prices would increase as a result of the minimum wage hike.
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According to Aaron Aerts and Laura Jones of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, “The negative impacts will ripple throughout the economy: layoffs, reduced hours and fewer opportunities for young workers; higher prices for consumers; increased automation; and reduced investment. Pretending these impacts don’t exist is fa-la-la-la-la economics.”
A survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business is reporting that over 50% of small businesses are going to be raising the price of products and services in response to the wage hike. Additionally, over 50% of small business employers have already made plans to not hire any new employees for the year, while over one quarter of small businesses will be reducing the amount of staff currently hired.
Even more staggering, only 33% of small business owners have proactively responded to the minimum wage hike. In other words, the minimum wage increase is serving its intended function for only one-third of small businesses in Canada. Small and medium-sized businesses employ over 90% of Canadians in the private sector.
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Aerts and Jones asked some small business owners how the wage hike would impact their business. This is how they responded:
“{We} won’t be able to hire the same number of students next year — we normally hire eight or more; this year we are thinking maybe two.” Another says: “We have decided not to hire students coming out of university or college but focus more on experienced workers over the age of 40.” Yet another: “We will be shortening our hours of operation and decreasing the number of student workers. There will be less customer service available.”
By the way, despite all of this, the Ontario government plans to increase the minimum wage to $15/hour by 2019. Will the negative impacts and unintended consequences of this current wage hike cause the Liberal-run government of Ontario to reconsider increasing the minimum wage to $15/hour in 2019?
I’m going to go with a hard no. But, hey! Good intentions and stuff . . .
Hillary Clinton gets VERY BAD news about June (lock her up!)
Just days after Fox News host Sean Hannity promised viewers that Hillary Clinton and her pals were heading to prison this year, President Donald Trump’s administration dropped a major bombshell.
The Department of Justice has reopened the investigation into Hillary’s illegal email server. It’s seriously bad news for the twice-failed presidential candidate, because it could lead to her arrest around June of this year.
In other words, Hillary may have just five more months of freedom left.
Earlier this week, Trump responded to public pressure to reopen the investigation with the following statement —
Many people in our Country are asking what the “Justice” Department is going to do about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress, deleted and “acid washed” 33,000 Emails? No justice!
9:13 PM - Dec 2, 2017
The Justice Department responded Thursday by formally announcing the case will be looked into again using this new information — now free from what critics have called former FBI Director James Comey’s meddling.
“Last week, conservative group Judicial Watch won a lawsuit against the State Department and released emails showing that classified information was on the computer of Abedin’s then-husband Anthony Weiner,” The Washington Examiner reported.
“The FBI previously investigated and declined to criminally prosecute Clinton for her use of the email server. But Trump and his supporters used the email debacle as a rallying cry throughout the campaign.”
The new Department of Justice investigation into the email scandal is expected to start immediately, and should wrap up by the spring.
That means Hillary could finally be in handcuffs by June.
What a nice summer treat.
— The Horn editorial team
New England Paying the Price for Its War on Coal
By Michael Bastasch
While New England’s power grid operator predicted they would have enough energy supplies to meet demand this winter, they admitted there could be problems if record-low temperatures set in.
“While New England has adequate capacity resources to meet projected demand, a continuing concern involves the availability of fuel for those power plants to generate electricity when needed,” grid operator ISO New England reported in November.
“During extremely cold weather, natural gas pipeline constraints limit the availability of fuel for natural-gas-fired power plants,” the grid operator noted.
That’s exactly what is happening right now.
Unrelenting cold since late December has caused energy demand to spike, pushing up prices and straining supplies. New England power companies are struggling to keep up with demand.
New England’s current energy woes are the result of years of state and federal policies aimed at closing coal and oil-fired power plants, largely as part of the region’s effort to fight global warming.
In 2000, New England got about 18 percent of its electricity from coal plants. Now, the region gets around 3 percent — though it’s jumped to 6 percent in the recent cold snap.
The Brayton Point Power Station, New England’s largest coal plant, shut down over the summer. Plant operators decided to close the plant in 2013 after putting in expensive cooling towers to cut pollution.
Most of the shuttered capacity has been replaced by natural gas, but pipeline capacity has not kept up with demands from power plants.
When temperatures drop, natural gas demand spikes as residents clamor to stay warm. But, like in 2014, New England’s pipeline capacity hasn’t expanded enough to fully meet demand during such cold snaps.
Environmentalists have contributed to the problem by protesting large pipeline projects power operators wanted to increase gas deliveries. Things got more complicated when the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled companies could not enter into long-term gas contracts and pass those costs onto consumers.
The court ruling killed the planned $3 billion Access Northeast pipeline project. The project would have expanded an existing New England pipeline and was expected to save customers $1 billion a year.
A second $3 billion pipeline plan, the Northeast Energy Direct project, was mothballed in 2016 amid stiff political resistance.
Gas supply constraints have made New England the world’s most expensive power market. Some power plants have taken to burning oil to generate power, but supplies are running low. Federal air quality regulations are also keeping power plants from burning more fuel.
“The region’s natural gas delivery infrastructure has expanded only incrementally, while reliance on natural gas as the predominant fuel for both power generation and heating continues to grow,” the ISO reported in its winter outlook, which was released at the end of November.
“Further, the retirement of a 1,500 MW coal- and oil-fired power plant in May has removed a facility with stored fuel that helped meet demand when natural gas plants were unavailable.”
The ISO identified 4,000 megawatts of natural gas power capacity “at risk of not being able to get fuel when needed.”
BOMBSHELL Drops About Comey
James Comey may have leaked at least one classified memo to a friend shortly after he was fired as FBI director.
That’s an assessment from Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, who wrote a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday demanding answers about the handling of memos that Comey wrote following his conversations with President Trump.
Grassley also pointed to past reporting that Comey gave four memos of his conversations with Trump to a friend, Columbia law professor Daniel Richman.
“If it’s true that Professor Richman had four of the seven memos, then in light of the fact that four of the seven memos the Committee reviewed are classified, it would appear that at least one memo the former FBI director gave Professor Richman contained classified information,” Grassley writes.
Liberals Love The New 3 Minute Abortion Device
The left and their pro-abortion ideals have officially gone too far. Instead to trying to help women find the help they need with raising their children, or giving them options in adopting, they continue to push their murderous agenda.
Recently, a new device has been released, called SofTouch, and it has been displayed in a feminist magazine. According to the makers, it can kill your unborn child up to 12-weeks gestation and at a super effective and quick “three minutes.”
Glamour said this, “You’ve probably never heard of it, but recently a device that has the power to transform the abortion process hit the health care scene.”
“It fits in the palm of a doctor’s hand and doesn’t require an electric suction machine or an operating room or fasting the night before. A patient doesn’t need to be sedated and there are and no limits on her lifestyle either before or after the procedure. In fact, she can get the entire procedure done in her lunch hour and go right back to work. It’s nonsurgical, noninvasive and is nearly 100 percent effective. It can be completed in 60 to 90 seconds if the patient is less than six weeks pregnant and in about two or three minutes if she’s between six and 10 weeks.”
Horrifying.
Recently, a new device has been released, called SofTouch, and it has been displayed in a feminist magazine. According to the makers, it can kill your unborn child up to 12-weeks gestation and at a super effective and quick “three minutes.”
Glamour said this, “You’ve probably never heard of it, but recently a device that has the power to transform the abortion process hit the health care scene.”
“It fits in the palm of a doctor’s hand and doesn’t require an electric suction machine or an operating room or fasting the night before. A patient doesn’t need to be sedated and there are and no limits on her lifestyle either before or after the procedure. In fact, she can get the entire procedure done in her lunch hour and go right back to work. It’s nonsurgical, noninvasive and is nearly 100 percent effective. It can be completed in 60 to 90 seconds if the patient is less than six weeks pregnant and in about two or three minutes if she’s between six and 10 weeks.”
Horrifying.
Elizabeth Warren Had The Worst Day Of Her Life Because Of One Terrible Mistake
Elizabeth Warren jumps at any opportunity to attack Donald Trump. It’s all part of her plan to defeat him in 2020.But she just made the worst mistake of her life.
Trump sent liberals into spasms of outrage when he tweeted out a hilarious jab at their religious belief in the fake news hoax known as man-made global warming.
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
Warren could not contain herself and tried to prove her “resistance” credentials when she tweeted back an absurd response about how she believes in “science.”
Elizabeth Warren ✔@elizabethformaI’m going to say something really crazy: I believe in science. Climate change is real and we have a moral obligation to protect this Earth for our children and grandchildren.
8:23 PM - Dec 28, 2017
This led to a number of hilarious responses that pointed out how the Democrats are actually the party that rejects science because of their beliefs that one can change their gender, life does not begin at conception, and how Warren herself claimed she was a Native American Indian.
James Woods ✔@RealJamesWoodsDNA is also based in science. Yours does not show you are Native American. So either you are an outright liar or you actually don’t believe in science. Which is it, #Liewathahttps://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/946552278655340546 …
HOW MANY GENDERS ARE THERE, SCIENCE LADY? https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/946552278655340546 …
Now do the science of fetal development https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/946552278655340546 …
These tweets point out the ridiculous nature of Elizabeth Warren’s position, and previews the difficulty she will have in a 2020 campaign.
She holds extreme and indefensible positions.
And her lies about her Native American heritage already reveals her fundamental dishonesty.
All of this combined creates a target-rich candidate for Donald Trump’s taunts and ridicule.
California proposed for first new offshore drilling since 1984 under broad new federal leasing program
Keith Schneider
An oil drilling platform off the Santa Barbara coast in 2009. (Chris Carlson / Associated Press)The Trump administration, inviting a political backlash from coastal state leaders, on Thursday proposed to open for exploration the largest expanse of the nation’s offshore oil and natural gas reserves ever offered to global energy companies, including waters off the coast of California.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said the draft five-year leasing plan would commit 90% of the nation’s offshore reserves to leasing, including areas off all three regions of the California coast that have been off limits to oil and gas exploration since the Reagan administration.
The draft plan, now subject to review and debate, would allow the first new federal lease sales off the California coast since 1984. It sparked immediate fury from Democratic leaders up and down the West Coast.
“The American people deserve smart, strong action to keep our communities healthy, clean and safe. Yet the Trump administration is racing forward with its increasingly brazen attempts to loot our environment and our planet,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said in a statement. “Americans from coast to coast will make their voices heard to oppose this blatant corporate giveaway.”
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California Gov. Jerry Brown joined the governors of Oregon and Washington in condemning the plan.
“For more than 30 years, our shared coastline has been protected from further drilling, and we’ll do whatever it takes to stop this reckless, shortsighted action,” Brown and Govs. Kate Brown of Oregon and Jay Inslee of Washington said in a statement.
California Gov. Jerry Brown joined the governors of Oregon and Washington in condemning the plan.
“For more than 30 years, our shared coastline has been protected from further drilling, and we’ll do whatever it takes to stop this reckless, shortsighted action,” Brown and Govs. Kate Brown of Oregon and Jay Inslee of Washington said in a statement.
“They’ve chosen to forget the utter devastation of past offshore oil spills to wildlife and to the fishing, recreation and tourism industries in our states,” the governors said. “They’ve chosen to ignore the science that tells us our climate is changing and we must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.”
Industry leaders, meanwhile, applauded the opportunity to expand the nation’s energy production at a time when global demand is projected to increase.
“With 94 percent of our nation’s outer continental shelf currently and unnecessarily off limits to oil and gas leasing and exploration, [we] welcome the bold and broad offshore leasing proposal released today by the Department of the Interior,” Randall Luthi, president of the National Ocean Industries Assn., said in a statement.
The Interior Department plan, he said, requires a lengthy process of environmental review and public comment before any new drilling could begin. “The process involves several rounds of public participation from stakeholders, including local communities,” he said.
The proposed plan for the outer continental shelf calls for 47 lease sales to be scheduled in 25 of 26 areas off the nation’s coastlines between 2019 and 2024.
There are presently 23 oil platforms located in federal waters off California and four in state waters — in Santa Barbara County, Huntington Beach and Seal Beach. There are also four artificial islands used as drilling platforms off Long Beach and one off Rincon Beach in Ventura County.
In 1994, the Legislature placed the entire California coast off-limits to new leases.
The proposed federal plan suggests seven new leases in the Pacific region, including two each for Northern, Central and Southern California, as well as one for the area off the Washington and Oregon coast. Twelve leases are nominated for the Gulf of Mexico, and 19 for coastal Alaska.
“This is a start on looking at American energy dominance and looking at our offshore assets and beginning a dialog of when, how, where and how fast those offshore assets could be or should be developed,” Zinke said in a conference call with reporters.
“Nobody is better at producing clean, quality, responsible energy than the U.S.,” said Zinke. “Clean, reliable, abundant and affordable energy is what’s driving our economy.”
Nick Lund, the senior manager for landscape conservation at the National Parks Conservation Assn., said the administration faces significant political opposition to the plan from coastal communities in California and other states.
“Communities surrounding our 88 coastal national parks, including Santa Barbara, Charleston and Baltimore, have formally opposed offshore drilling and exploration,” Lund said. "For the first time in decades, the waters, wildlife and local economies of coastal parks like Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina and Channel Islands National Park in California will be at risk to the dangers of drilling."
Brown in 2016 pushed for a permanent ban on new offshore drilling off the state’s coast, both because of concerns over potential oil spills and reluctance to expand the world’s reliance on fossil fuels in the face of climate change.
Instead, the administration has proposed to open almost all of the nation’s potential offshore oil and gas reserves to exploration. The move marks yet another effort to dismantle the Obama administration’s restrictions on energy development, including special protections adopted for offshore areas.
Following the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, the Obama administration set in place a series of offshore leasing moratoriums in the Gulf and bans along other coastlines. In March 2016, the Obama administration rescinded drilling leases along the Atlantic coast. In December 2016, as he was preparing to leave the White House, Obama withdrew leasing plans for the Arctic Ocean in Alaska.
Nearly all those areas are now back in play, with the exception of the northern Aleutian Islands in Alaska, which are protected under orders from former President George W. Bush. New drilling would be delayed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico until 2023 to comply with existing federal law. Marine sanctuaries also would remain off limits.
Federal lease sales apply to waters from three nautical miles offshore, with some exceptions in Texas and Florida, up to 200 nautical miles offshore.
“This is the largest number of lease sales ever proposed for a national outer-continental shelf program in the five-year lease schedule,” Zinke said.
The 47 lease sales being proposed, he said, compare to 11 under the Obama administration, and 36 under former President Carter.
Zinke said the revenue raised by the lease auctions would be invested in renovating national parks. He said the Interior Department would not shortcut federal requirements for assessing the environmental consequences of the exploration and drilling plan.
Coastal states, especially California, Alaska and Florida, are especially sensitive to proposals to open the offshore seabed to oil and gas exploration because of oil spill risks that are escalating.
A devastating, 100,000-barrel spill in Santa Barbara in 1969 led to the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act, the foundation of U.S. environmental law, and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The 260,000-barrel Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989 exposed thousands of that state’s residents to the beach-fouling consequences of spilled oil. The 4.9-million-barrel Deepwater Horizon disaster, the worst oil spill in U.S. history, stirred new and broad opposition to offshore development.
"The oil spills are so catastrophic if they happen,” said Carl Tobias, professor at the University of Richmond Law School in Virginia. "People in the Chesapeake Bay region can’t afford that possibility and neither can cities along the California coasts.”
The administration’s drilling plan already has drawn sharp criticism from coastal state leaders.
Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara), who also backs a permanent ban on new drilling off the state’s coast, said new offshore exploration poses a serious threat, both in potential environmental damage and effects on tourism.
“The Central Coast knows too well the damage caused by oil spills, our local economies and fragile ocean ecosystems cannot afford another disastrous spill,” Carbajal said in a statement.
“Californians will never let this happen,” said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael). “This reckless proposal for a new offshore drilling spree should face widespread, bipartisan opposition. We’ll fight them in Congress, on the beaches, in the courts and at the ballot box. I’m confident we’ll defeat this dangerous plan.”
Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott said the plan to open deep ocean reserves off his state’s coastline “is something I oppose.” Scott said he requested a meeting with Zinke to “discuss the concerns I have with this plan.”
Though the president and his appointees have spent much of the last year clearing regulatory obstacles and promoting fossil energy production on federal holdings, the results are decidedly mixed. Coal production has ticked up sightly, largely due to a rise in exports. Onshore oil and gas lease auctions on public domain land in the the West have stirred some interest in select areas, particularly in Wyoming and New Mexico, but are drawing big yawns from the energy industry in Alaska, Nevada and other states.
The scope of the administration’s offshore drilling proposal is vast. But its potential to actually result in oil exploration and development is not nearly as certain. Royal Dutch Shell pulled out of its Arctic drilling campaign in 2015 after spending $7 billion because of the rising cost, significant public opposition and extreme difficulty of exploring in rough water rife with dangerous ice floes. U.S. oil production reached nearly 10 million barrels a day in October, the highest level since the start of the 1970s. All but 15 percent was produced onshore.
The Interior secretary said there would be wide consultation and debate with state and congressional leaders before any plan is finalized. But he emphasized the administration’s conviction that expanding domestic fossil fuel production relieves the risk of relying on imported oil, and will generate new wealth and new jobs. “It's about our workforce and the chance to be part of the American experience. Our advantage is energy,” he said.
Zinke late last year put into place a number of steps to make it easier to lease and explore the onshore and offshore oil and gas reserves that are owned and managed by the federal government. One of those measures was reversing safety measures and requirements for installing safety equipment that were put in place by the Obama administration following the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
Offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico produce about 1.5 million barrels of oil daily, or 15% of total U. S. production.
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