Showing posts with label oil exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil exploration. Show all posts
Monday, September 18, 2017

With Republicans in control of White House, the Senate, and Congress, all eyes turn to ANWR.

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Courtesy of WaPo :   The Trump administration is quietly moving to allow energy exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for t...
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Saturday, June 03, 2017

With everybody focused on Trump pulling out of the Paris accords, we almost missed that his administration wants to start drilling more giant holes in Alaska.

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Courtesy of Newsweek :   With all eyes on President Donald Trump’s announcement to withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, Interior Se...
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Sunday, April 30, 2017

Donald Trump signs executive order to expand drilling in the Arctic. Because saving the planet is for pussies.

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MOMENTS AGO: @POTUS signs executive order to review offshore oil and gas exploration locations. pic.twitter.com/VNPDEyL01K — Fox News (@Fox...
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Saturday, April 22, 2017

The Trump Administration will not, repeat will not, repeal those sanctions stopping Exxon from completing that huge deal with Russian oil company.

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Courtesy of CNBC : The Trump administration will not grant special permission to U.S. companies, including Exxon Mobil, to carry out oil...
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Monday, January 09, 2017

With Trump Administration coming into power Alaska delegation sees new opportunity to open ANWR.

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Courtesy of the Fairbanks Newsminer : Another chapter has begun in the decades-long battle over drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Re...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

The best President ever blocks oil drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. The planet thanks you President Obama.

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President Obama having his heart stolen by Alaska. Courtesy of Reuters :   U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday banned new oil and...
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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Before leaving office President Obama protects the Arctic by declaring portions of it off limits for oil exploration.

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President Obama in Kotzebue, Alaska. Courtesy of Phys.org :   US President Barack Obama on Friday declared portions of the Arctic off-...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Sarah Palin gets herself all excited and has herself a gusher over the possibility of a Trump administration raping the planet a little harder.

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Courtesy of the fracking moron's Facebook page :   Drill, Baby Drill! American Made Energy Makes America Great Again (Not to be all ...
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Saturday, June 11, 2016

Last oil company relinquishes oil drilling leases in the Chukchi Sea.

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Courtesy of Think Progress :   Repsol, a Spanish oil company which owned a significant portion of the drilling leases for Alaska’s Chukc...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Another one bites the dust. Yet one more oil company decides that exploring the Alaskan arctic is not worth the trouble.

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Courtesy of Think Progress :   Norway’s state-owned oil and gas company, Statoil, announced Tuesday it is pulling operations out of the ...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Just when I thought Alaska Governor Bill Walker might be one of the good ones.

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Courtesy of the BBC :   Expanding the search for oil is necessary to pay for the damage caused by climate change, the Governor of Alaska...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Shell oil ends its controversial drilling operation in Alaska.

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Courtesy of The Guardian :   Shell has abandoned its controversial drilling operations in the Alaskan Arctic in the face of mounting o...
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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Oklahoma is having 600 times more earthquakes than they did in 2008. If you guessed the reason was oil drilling, give yourself a pat on the back.

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Courtesy of Yahoo News :   The onslaught of seismic activity in Oklahoma in recent years has captured the attention of the nation.  ...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

President Obama to designate vast areas of ANWR as wilderness area. Oh that should go over well up here.

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Courtesy of the AP :   President Barack Obama is proposing to designate the vast majority of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Ref...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

President Obama just used a Presidential Memorandum to protect Alaska's Bristol Bay.

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Courtesy of Newsweek :   In a YouTube video released Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama announced a ban on future oil and gas dr...
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