The decision — part of an ongoing, yearslong fight over whether and how to develop the vast oil resources in the state — finalizes protections first proposed last year as the Biden administration prepared to approve the controversial Willow oil project.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Biden administration restricts oil and gas leasing in 13 million acres of Alaska's petroleum reserve
The Biden administration said Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres (5.3 million hectares) of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm.
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Another reason the Shit Head Biden Progressives have in their arsenal to stop gas car production. They want the price of gallon of gas to go to the same level as the California fast food worker's minimum hourly wage.
ReplyDeleteCannibal food's nephew needs to be restricted, not the people trying to provide energy for our society to operate on.
ReplyDelete"As the Artic continues to warm" um, what? It's not... the ice pack is expanding...
ReplyDeleteSo first FJB depletes the strategic petroleum reserve. Former president Trump took some oil from that reserve, but not nearly as much, and Trump tried to replenish it but congress refused to allow it. Now under FJB, who has depleted the reserve so badly that it is a national security issue, it will cost much, much more to refill, if we could even get the oil.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing that is a serious issue it the mineral deposits that FJB is threatening. As someone who melted steel for a living, I know the backstory of many of the strategic minerals involved.
Speaking only about Cobalt, most of it is imported from other countries in Africa, like Zambia and other nations who use child labor to extract the ore from the ground. There is also some found in Russia, with a bit coming from Canada. Having our own source from Alaska would make a huge difference. Cobalt is used in many things, from rechargeable battery electrodes, to magnets, and another very important military thing, the hot parts of jet engines. They are called superalloys in this application, and are melted under high vacuum. I ran furnaces under high vacuum for this application, with one alloy costing around 10 million dollars per 8,000 pound heats.
The other use for cobalt that is very important for America is that it is used in an alloy called various names, but we melted it mostly under the name F-75. This is the alloy that is used in artificial hip sockets, knee joints, and often in plates inserted for badly broken bones, etc.
At one time we made over 85% of the F-75 in the entire world. Now other companies have taken market share, but it is not an easy alloy to make, so it takes time to develop the processes necessary.
I tend to be one of those who study things via information gleaned from many sources on the internet. And in my study I don't believe that the global warming, now called climate change to make it more versatile, is something that actually exists.
Weather is something that always changes. Climate is also something that changes. To see a scientist say that global temperatures have changed by .05 degrees Celsius over the past 200 years makes no sense, since they did not have a reliable way to measure temperature that accurately. Using ice core samples is at best a rough estimate, not accurate enough to make the definitive statements that they usually make, in order to remain in good standing in their little community.
I am getting damned tired of the liberals of the world trying, and in many ways succeeding, in turning a once great nation into the world's shithole to drop the human garbage of the other nations of the world in. And of the liberal POS of our country not just allowing it, but encouraging it. I have come to believe that Civil War II has already begun. At this point we don't seem to be winning.
The social and political portions of the marxist revolution have begun, we are just waiting for it to go hot, as they always do after using the existing legal systems of their victims to destroy themselves from the inside out.
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If it wasn't legislated it ain't law. The people of Alaska share in the profits of oil and gas. Every swinging dick and split tale ought to do a class action against these POS K-street and assistant administrators and Fuck Barak Hussien Obama.
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The lower 48 were worried about Alaska being able to pay it's way, and required them to develop their resources in order to not be a burden on the rest of the nation.
ReplyDeleteNow we have President Incest forcing them to violate the very agreement that we forced upon them in order to become a state.
I truly believe that TX and AK could successfully and legally hasten and lead the national divorce that we really need to occur.
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