U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry scolds Interior Department over pace of drilling permits
Louisiana lawmakers sparred with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday, with Rep. John Fleming, R-Minden, suggesting that the Obama administration is deliberately driving up gas prices to make alternative energy more competitive, and Rep. Jeff Landry, R-New Iberia, berating the department’s pace of issuing permits, even for work to safely plug abandoned wells.
“The permit process in New Orleans is at a dead standstill in terms of P&A (plug and abandon) work that the administration says needs to be done,” Landry told Salazar at a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee.
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salazar is like obama does not have a clue of what going on in THE UNITED STATES
States which want to allow oil drilling/production/refining, should just go ahead and issue the permits themselves. To hell with what the feds say about it– let ‘em sue. The federal courts have already ruled in favor of it, going so far as to declare the moratorium null and void– if they sue a state for allowing it, they’ll just get their asses handed back to them, again…….