Natural-gas companies are taking concerns about looming Interior Department “fracking” regulations to the White House with efforts that include a meeting between a major producer and the Obama administration’s top regulatory official.
The recent meetings — which include trade groups and big players like Exxon and Anadarko Petroleum — are part of a wider industry push to ensure that regulation of the development method doesn’t create what the companies consider burdensome requirements that stymie production.
Interior is readying to propose rules to govern fracking, which is short for hydraulic fracturing, that occurs on public lands. The rules are expected to require disclosure of chemical ingredients used in the fracking process, and also address well integrity and water management.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Chairman Jim Hackett and other company officials met April 3 with Cass Sunstein, who heads the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Anadarko, according to a presentation provided to OMB, fears that the rules could lead to hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of annual delays for industry projects on public lands, and warns of “onerous” reporting requirements.The presentation also cites concerns that Interior could deny fracking from occurring at wells that have already been drilled.
We used to have a Bureau of Mines in the Interior Department – back in the days before Clinton. The BoM was concerned with setting *performance* standards for Mine Safety. The mining industry was glad to cooperate because the standards saved lives and reduced accidents without seriously impairing productivity.
Unfortunately, the BoM did not have regulatory enforcement powers, and socould not produce a ‘reveue stream’ from fines (like the EPA) or licensing fees (like the NRC). Without this source of money/power, the administration deemed the BoM a liability, and shut it down in the 90′s.
It is a shame because the business model worked very effectively. Since the BoM shutdown, coal mining accidents alone have skyrocketed.
Dear Exxon and Anadarko Executives: You THINK Nobama will “work with you”, when what Nobama REALLY wants is to:”Bring Big Oil to its knees and cripple the US economy.”(–taken directly from Dr. Michael Savage’s “Trickle-down Tyranny”, brilliant new best-seller). WHY? Because with Marxist idiots like Cass Sunstean and the liar, Chew, imo, Nobama doesn’t “need” Big Oil to win,–he’s ALREADY WON RE-ELECTION,–a 2nd term, imo, because SCYTL, the Spanish-vote tabulating firm, will DELIVER, imo, a 2012 landslide FOR Nobama, whether people voted that way or not. I DO think SCYTL will be able to say, “We were ‘hacked-into’,” as plausible deniability(–it has happened before), but it doesn’t matter WHO the Republicans want, and WHO Exxon wants, –Nobama will be BACK and he may Nationalize USA Oil firms/assets in his 2nd term! There also will be Martial Law, and millions will die, imo, in his 2nd term, as “Capitalist-Terrorists”(–because you see, he PROVED Capitalism doesn’t “work.”). You may get “assurances” from Sunstean, but his staff & other regulating bureaus, will play “Good-cop”/”bad-cop”, and Exxon will NEVER get, imo, what it wants, or even “Justice”, but I Pray I’m wrong. Shell spent 4 billion$ trying to drill near Alaska, and Nobama’s people have screwed them. On the Other hand, I hear Russia’s drilling the Artic. –Exxon & the USA can’t drill–Russia, which is Covertly-Commie, CAN drill! You’re dealing with a Communist(Nobama) from a LONG way back, who WANTS to destroy big corporations! He gets a “rush”, imo, from thwarting Big Oil and others–He HATES you guys, –Big Oil is what is WRONG in His world-view (even though Exxon is too highly taxed, & only makes a couple of cents/gal)! He’s KILLED King-Coal, even though mining it for China would HELP our balance of payments, put UNION miners to work, plus what do we feed 45% of our generating capacity? Answer, NOTHING. Rolling-blackouts in the 2nd term, imo. Tell Bainard to DO SOMETHING! –IMPEACH Nobama! He’s threatened the Supremes, Ignored Congress, and TOLD us he’s doing it! He still doesn’t have a valid Social Security #, –That’s a Felony! There may not be anyway to “control” Nobama, because he WANTS to Turn the World Marxist(–a goal of the Globalists), starting with the USA, and that means companies like Exxon have got to go! God Help us by our Merits, amen.
What a rambling incoherent screed.
I speak “incoherrent.” I’ll translate:
“Hey Mr. Oil Dude! Don’t trust President Obama! He’s shown a propensity for trashing non-green and other productive forms of energy in favor of green industry.
And, Mr Oil Dude, keep in mind that this president has a history of doing bad stuff like what you would see in bad places, such as third world countries. My theory on this is that the president would like for our nation to be more like those third world countries.”
End translation.
I think it flows much better without the “Nobama” references and the all-caps interjections. It also helps to keep the sub-topics in one post down to a few dozen or so.