The latest brouhaha (controversy, kerfuffle, debate, waste of time [pick one]) has floated to the water’s surface like gas passed in a bathtub. It still stinks but it’s concealed amongst the other bubbles. Michael Bromwich, head of the Bureau of... (Continue reading)
What follows is a press release out of Rep. Jeff Landry’s office covering the latest in what is becoming a red-hot controversy on Capitol Hill between the Congressman and Michael Bromwich, the head of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation,... (Continue reading)
Heckuva job, Brommie. The offshore oil and gas industry can anticipate further new rules to enhance drilling safety, Michael Bromwich, head of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, said Wednesday. … “We anticipate the advance notice... (Continue reading)
The Obama administration just announced several measures designed to streamline the permitting process for oil and gas drilling. “We are constantly looking for ways to create a smarter, more efficient, and more transparent permit review process,” said Michael Bromwich, director... (Continue reading)
Ken Salazar wants a pay raise, and Harry Reid wants to give him one. But he won’t get anything anytime soon – not if Sen. David Vitter has anything to say about it. Vitter announced yesterday he’s putting a hold... (Continue reading)
Late last week, another federal judge compelled Secretary Salazar to stop dragging his feet on a decision that would permit Shell Oil to move forward with an offshore drilling program. This is the fourth such ruling from the bench in... (Continue reading)
It doesn’t happen often that we say nice things about her. But Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) did a hell of a job Tuesday in tearing up BOEMRE director Michael Bromwich at a Senate hearing on offshore drilling. Here’s the video... (Continue reading)
Michael Bromwich, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, granted an interview Thursday to The Hill. It was a strange trip through his thinking on domestic oil production, and his job performance. A few of the... (Continue reading)
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement director Michael Bromwich, who has been caught repeatedly making statements which are patently untrue in congressional testimony and who has been under constant fire for his agency’s failure to resuscitate the offshore... (Continue reading)
Earlier this week, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement head Michael Bromwich gave a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on his agency’s attempts to stand up a new regulatory regime where offshore drilling is... (Continue reading)
Rep. John Fleming’s office is getting a little more advanced on YouTube these days. They’re now producing videos rather than just recording clips off TV. And this one, which came out yesterday, goes through a few of the ridiculous claims... (Continue reading)
After the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the resulting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, one demand the Obama administration through its Interior Department made of the oil industry as a condition of re-starting deepwater drilling was that a system... (Continue reading)
After Sen. David Vitter placed a hold on the nomination of Dan Ashe, President Obama’s nominee to head the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Department of the Interior, yesterday – the second such nomination hold Vitter had placed,... (Continue reading)
On Friday, the Times-Picayune had an article touting a suspicious fact – namely, that there are more oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico today than there were prior to the Deepwater Horizon tragedy last April. Suspicious, of course, because... (Continue reading)
This from Obama’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management satrap Michael Bromwich today… “Even when the moratorium is lifted, you’re not going to see drilling going on the next day or even the next week,” Michael Bromwich, head of the Bureau... (Continue reading)