A Federal District Court has blocked Biden’s moratorium on new federal oil and gas leasing
Judge Terry Doughty, of the US District Court, Western District of Louisiana, issued a permanent injunction against Biden’s moratorium. The moratorium intended to tackle the “climate crisis”. It ordered the Department of Interior to pause new leases on oil and natural gas.
From Fox News:
Doughty wrote that President Biden “lacked any authority” to implement the policy under the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) which regulate federal leasing on public lands and waters.
“The Court finds Section 208 of Executive Order 14008 is ultra vires, beyond the authority of the President of the United States, and in violation of the OCSLA and the MLA,” he wrote in the opinion. “Even the President cannot make significant changes to the OCSLA and/or the MLA that Congress did not delegate.”
Biden issued Executive Order 14008 — titled the “Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad” — on Jan. 27, 2021, days after taking office. The action ordered the Department of the Interior (DOI) to pause new oil and natural gas leases, a policy Biden pledged to pursue during his 2020 campaign, while it conducts a review of the federal leasing program.
The DOI completed the review in late November.
“President Biden’s executive order to choke off energy development didn’t just increase prices and hurt American families — it was flatly illegal,” Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said in a statement after Doughty issued his ruling Thursday. “This decision is a victory for the rule of law and the workers and the rural communities who depend on the energy industry.”
Fox News has the article here.
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Well, that’s the first step, the action has been declared illegal.. Now how about holding those responsible accountable for their actions and the damage caused by them??
H ha ahah ah hahaha ha ahhh… you kill me man, hah ahahahha ha hahahahshshha ha hahawhhah ah ah hhahshshsh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haahahaaH ha ha, accountable, accountable for their actions he said,
Oh my fucking lol hah ah ah hahah ah ahhahhahh
woooah, responsible…. h ah ahhahah ah ahhhahahha ha hhhahhhJahah ha hh.
Thanks Fyrfighter haven’t laughed like that in ages you are funny fyrfighter.
Thanks 5JC… I know it won’t happen either, but I hadda throw it out there.. You know the commies would be screaming for it if President Trump had done this…
But this is all Trump’s fault. He appointed the judge. Circle of life….
HAHAH way to go ass clown!
FJB.
I got on the site oily today but not oily enough to catch the post. So oily to bed oily to rise makes an oily punster commenter wise.
Jeff, you’re behaving fuelishly… 😜
Crude humor.
What a gas.
Poe, devtun and rgr took all the good ones. I got nothing.
Other than that, nicely punned.
Points-and-laughs.
“…it was flatly illegal.” Welp, I won’t hold my breath waiting on the pino sniffy creepy to be charged and his home raided. Not to defend the worthless, grifting, child molesting POS, but he is only doing and signing what he is told to.
The constant nefarious activities that the demonrats have been doing makes the whole Watergate thing look like a bungled 3rd rate misdemeanor B & E. Oh…wait…that’s what it was.
Dept of Interior will just slow roll the approval process.
“Your honor, we’re working as fast as we can. But there has to be environmental studies, then a committee has to review the studies. After that the committee makes a recommendation to a council. After that it goes to the office of the deputy assistant undersecretary for review and recommendation. And after 18 months, it gets sent to the Sec of Interior for approval.”
Tell me I’m wrong (ok, I probably left out between 6 and 12 committees, boards, commissions, and assistant deputy undersecretaries, but the concept is the same. Only the timelines will be longer)
I think you’re only wrong because you left out the Wuhan Flu excuses..
And how long until the entire oil and gas industries can be restarted and we see REAL results at the pumps.
(and will it make any REAL reductions in costs and prices downstream to us?)
Since oil is sold on the futures market, once leases start up agai, the futures prices should come down, which will be reflected at the pump and numerous other areas that petroleum products are a significant ingredient rather quickly.
Yep, you’re correct on the “rather quickly” AZtoVA.
Miz Poe gets a monthly royalty check from the partial interest in a well her daddy left her, and market price fluctuations are reflected quickly in those checks.
He used the magic word there – SHOULD.
Even if the Filthy Bastards of Inquisition were to raid Prezzy Sniffy’s home, they wouldn’t find any evidence. Brandon has hidden it under Hunter’s pile of hookers and crack, and we know that will never be searched.
Well, let’s bust down that expensive new fence and start drilling in Brandon’s back yard. Kamala can suck start all the equipment.
The executive order will remain illegal only as long as it takes to find another judge more sympathetic to the administration.
Fuck Joe Biden
He can kiss my ass.
That grifter won’t be happy
‘til we have ten-dollar gas.