Obama Tears Up Drilling Permits to Stop Gigantic Energy Boom in Colorado – IOTW Report

Obama Tears Up Drilling Permits to Stop Gigantic Energy Boom in Colorado

Breitbart CA: Sally Jewell, the U.S. interior secretary, just cancelled leases to drill for natural gas on federal land in Colorado, in a last-ditch effort to stop an energy boom bigger than Bakken Shale discovery in North Dakota.

Jewell’s Bureau of Land Management claimed that the 25 “Mancos” energy drilling leases now being cancelled were just a non-performing portion of 65 leases on “lands managed by the White River National Forest” and “amount to less than ½ of 1 percent of the active leases on public lands in the state of Colorado.”

But the 25 properties were “non-performing” only because they have been tangled in red-tape since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, even though they were leased in 2005 during George W. Bush’s administration.   read more

9 Comments on Obama Tears Up Drilling Permits to Stop Gigantic Energy Boom in Colorado

  1. It’s an act of futility. This will just give everyone an excuse to lay about over the holidays, knowing these permits will be restored in the third week of January, 17.

  2. I wasn’t aware that Colorado was a territory, or that we had forts in Colorado. If the land in question doesn’t fall into one of those two categories, the Fed’s have no right to it–it should be turned over to the State of Colorado and they can decide if they want to allow exploration.

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