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Trump Order Helps Offshore Drilling, Stops Marine Sanctuary Expansion (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In an executive order signed on Friday, President Trump directed his secretary of the interior to review current rules on offshore drilling and exploration. This review is likely to result in a relaxation of the strict protections the previous administration put on offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic and in the Arctic. According to the Washington Post, a review of the rules is likely to "make millions of acres of federal waters eligible for oil and gas leasing." At the same time, Trump's executive order directed the secretary of commerce to cease designating new marine sanctuaries or expanding any that already exist. According to USA Today, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is also "directed to review all designations and expansions of marine monuments or sanctuaries designated under the Antiquities Act within the last 10 years." The Post says this "includes Hawaii's Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, which Obama quadrupled in size last year, and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts off Massachusetts." Although these reviews could take some time to complete, they put in motion a bid to favor extraction industries like oil and gas mining. "Today, we're unleashing American energy and clearing the way for thousands and thousands of high-paying energy jobs," Trump reportedly told the Associated Press.
Disco inferno!
Is there oil off the coast of Mar-a-Lago? Trump pitched a fit about a wind farm off the coast of Scotland near his golf course there. Wonder how he'd feel about a few oil drilling platforms or a spill?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
No.
This is very important. This is pushing is one step closer to environmental destruction. No more marine life, just so some oil companies can get richer even faster.
This is important.
And fuck Trump.
Actually this kind of article will probably fain people because it seem the more political the article the more is people are reply it.
Idiot.
Thats just a stupid ass conspiracy theory. I bet you believe we didn't land on the moon too. Or Bush did 9/11 (oh wait, maybe not that one because it was by a republican lol)
How is this Trump bashing? This is exactly what America wants him to do! Who gives a fuck about "marine sanctuaries"? Lets Make America Great Again!
Idiot.
Thats just a stupid ass conspiracy theory. I bet you believe we didn't land on the moon too. Or Bush did 9/11 (oh wait, maybe not that one because it was by a republican lol)
Whoosh!
Trump bashing is important to help the people. Help the people.
Thanks for showing the low average intelligence of the typical Trump basher.
Because nearly everything he does is harmful to humanity in some way. Thats why.
The fish, corals, dolphins, sea cucumbers, squid, do I have to go on?
And I do. I love my sushi mmmmm
Your post is the same old mindset of the retard US right, desperately clinging to yesterdays technology and ideas, whilst the rest of the world leaves the US behind.
Its like you a desperately seeking irrelevance. China will eat you in the next twenty years economically. Good riddance.
Not being able to drill for enough oil really isn't the problem with America's economy. Someone should tell this fucking idiot.
That's what I didn't get about all the love for Bernie Sanders. The guy was like a candidate for student government promising extended recess and more pizza days. With the government what it is, and being a part of it, he must have pegged some of us for saps.
You know that, right? We wanted this. Wanted the chaos. God help us all.
Miss Mash wish she could enjoy boners the way other woman do but it not in the card for her today, ha ha
That's something that should make any Western leftist shit his/her/xir pants. If you think America's track record for environmental protection is bad, you clearly know nothing about the state of China's environment today!
It's really strange that so many leftists oppose President Trump on this matter. His economic policies are the first in about 50 years that would actually put America's economy back on track, which would ensure that China's economic influence would be kept at bay.
By not supporting him, these leftists are doing everything they can to shift global economic power over to a nation that has never considered the environment very important at all. That's something else to add to the list of ways that leftists cause the most harm to the environment!
At $45 / bbl who is going to be doing any offshore exploring?
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
He wasn't the person chosen by 'we the people'. So all the "America deserve this"/ "this is what America has come to"/ "blame ourselves" bullshit, that's *not* what America is.
It's not even what the Republican party is. They were hijacked too. A combination of their rule rigging (remember the 2012 Teleprompter "the ayes have it"?). And the endless voter disenfranchisement and gerrymandering, means they don't have a solid majority to keep them pro-America.
At times, you could watch Fox and turn over to Russia Today, and you couldn't tell the difference they were so aligned.
"Party before country" thinkers just follow whatever flag the leader is carrying. Even a false flag of a foreign nation.
Yes, you make some valid points. Like perhaps leftists could use telecommunications software to reduce their carbon footprint from flying to conferences around the world. No one's perfect.
But clearly, their plans and actions are much better than the conservative ones. In the grand scene of things, a few flights is nothing compared to letting thousands of multinational corporations dump all the waste into rivers and overfishing so that the ocean's food chain collapses, etc.
There are 31 comments right now, but with the default modding it didn't show any comments at all! I had to shift to -1 to see any comments. To make matters worse, the only comments worth reading were at 0 or even -1! The modding system here needs a total overhaul. It hides good comments, emphasizes the worst comments, and sometimes hides all comments by default! It hurts more than it helps. If I have to browse at -1 anyway just to see any comments, then the entire mod system might as well just be removed!
Completely and utter nonsense you fear mongering liberal.
I find it hilarious how the same people who say that bullying is a terrible thing will turn around and try to harass, demean and insult President Trump all of the time. Their bullying is some of the harshest by far!
The value of assets is virtual anyway, so if Exxon was prevented from drilling for oil, the value of its field rights is zero. On the other hand, if Trump can find some drilling rights that can be assigned, then on Exxons books they can put those as an unrealized asset. Something they can borrow against to buy oil assets elsewhere.
I say Trump, but this is really Rex Tillerson, ex Exxon CEO and now Secretary of State, Trump is a zombie President at this point. Putting out one page 'plans' that nobody pays attention to.
From a comment above that was modded down to surpress it: The Whitehouse press release that was copied verbatim from Exxon's press release.
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/838874217852567552/photo/1
This shows how Exxon are the main drivers of policy related to oil. Tillerson is a golfing buddie of Trumps, hence Trump just parrots Exxon press releases without any analysis.
Tillerson will have gone to Trump, said "it will create jobs and make America great again", and Trump won't remember all the Exxon Valdiz or Deep Water Horizon stuff, the reason these zones were created, and he will simply have signed it without any conscious thought on the matter.
Thousands of jobs gained he says, but isn't there quite a bit of work going into all of those conservation efforts? How many jobs will be *lost* from these cuts, on top of the damage and destruction to our environment that we'll be footing the bill for?
I get the feeling the loss column is probably several times the gains even in jobs alone.
Obama actually did set aside large areas of endangered habitat from such destructive activities - Like the arctic, a perfect example. Trump has no understanding of why Obama did that, only that BECAUSE Obama did that, it must be his retarded life mission to overturn that to please his moronic base, cost be damned.
And you fell for it? How? Seriously, you can't be stupid enough to try to compare Obama's record to Trumpy's can you? Honestly, lol.
Say what you will about Obama, mention every single failure from 8 years three times... it still won't compare to Trump's selling-out in just these first 100 days.
I don't see oil rigs getting cheaper or the oil price going up, so in which parallel universe will these high-paying energy jobs materialize?
Don't even think the current oil price is low because of economic situations. $50 is high for an industry that is about to scale down. I'm not talking about peak oil, there will be plenty of oil in the ground, forever. The stone age didn't end because we rand out of stones, it ended because we found something better. The oil age won't end because we ran out of oil.
First of all, I said nothing about bullying. And almost everyone universally agrees bullying is a terrible thing. We just disagree about how to solve it. A lot of pansies want the teachers to step in and deal with it, whereas I say the solution to bullying is to teach kids to wind up and clock the bully in his face as hard as they can. That's the o ly way to truly deal with it.
Yet I am generally a liberal. Just not the "special snowflake" or "safe spaces" or "everyone is a winner" kind that seems to be popular these days. But economically and environmentally I am definitely liberal.
And lastly, nothing in my post was bullying at all. Now, simply saying most of Trump's policies are harmful is called bullying? I guess you don't like the freedom of speech this country was founded on. Maybe moving elsewhere, like China or North Korea, would do you wonders.
Is there any lasting damage from Deepwater Horizon? No, not really. Nothing that anyone can easily point to. It was a worst case scenario come true, and a few years later you have to look really hard for evidence it happened at all.
That's the reality. Does the reality matter at all?
Xir? What the fuck is that?
You just lost all credibility by using that term. Just so you know.
Your paraphrasing isn't even close. Bernie promised BANK REGULATIONS. He promised MEDICAL OVERSIGHT. DRINKABLE WATER. You're a fucking ham trying to pretend turkey is the same as beef, fuck you for lying so loosely.
Go drink some oil, Trumpy. Or some blood.
None of those are "who".
No, you are not environmentally liberal... you are environmentally fascist.
Nothing wrong with it, i'm an environmental fascist as well... just be honest with yourself.
Sigh. I'm still not convinced people like you are real, rather than just trolls. I have been coming across people like you more often though... just online thankfully.
But if you want to get into specifics, my main gripe with him is that he promised free college and debt forgiveness, while completely ignoring how the political climate and the lobbying power of that industry would have made that an impossibility. He promised so much in general that the other Democrats were scrambling to counter him. The only one who wasn't doing that, Jim Web, left the race rather than take part in that sham.
These days, all the good technical articles are reposted from Ars. Trump bashing /worship is the only thing that differentiates Slashdot.
No, you either need to live in the gulf area, or listen to news from the area. Like most things, peoples memories are far too short for the good of the species. Is there lasting damage from it? Yes, it's just not in the news every day.... and stupid people have forgotten about it, or try to minimize it.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
You're a fucking idiot. College tuition is the life blood of industry and the price is next to an afterthought compared to defense spending or tax cuts for the richest.
YOU believe TRUMP is a more realistic candidate than Bernie in terms of promises made? Then math is not your strong suit either, Bigly.
Foreigners. Mostly Soviet Aholes. They 1) Don't get it, and-or 2) Perpetuate disinformation (fake news). The rest of republicans, but not that many because, well, because they're stupid and few of then can type a complete sentence.
Well, somehow the rest of the developed world manages to provide education and healthcare to their citizens. Just not us, we're all about rugged individualism for the poor, and bailouts for the banks.
God damn you are stupid, just go sit in the corner while the other kids play.
to spite her face.
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retard!
If there are enough rich people, paying enough money at a luxury resort to have no wind turbines visible nearby, I will argue it is worth it to not have wind turbines around.
" the lobbying power of that industry" I hate this, lobbyists only have the power you give them. Goverment is up to the elected members not some prick sent over from a lobby firm. Just ignore them...
Cross (gen)der. Leftists made it up, blame that faction. You need to calm down and think for awhile. You seem to stupid and fanatical to be rational.
... Jim Web, left the race rather than take part in that sham.
Jim Webb didn't leave the race because of his "high principles". He left race because he had 1% if the vote.
Years ago, Webb actively campaigned to have women kicked out of the service academies. He resigned as Reagan's Secretary of the Navy because he wanted more money to buy even more weapons that we didn't need. And this guy expected to be elected by Democratic primary voters? He was in the wrong party.
Somehow you managed to respond to the wrong post or are mentally deficient. Either way, your post made no sense in regard to the discussion you replied to.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
I am Jack9.
Everyone knows me.
"Does the reality matter at all?" Go fishing in the Gulf and eat what you catch for 10 years, and we'll call that a baseline study of actual reality. If you live, you can tell us you told us so. Bitch, the reality is you have no concept of reality and you say bullshit online trying to invent reality, but you're bad at it. That's the reality.
Fuck you reality-free Trumpies. GET TESTED FOR LYING.
Grow some balls and grow the fuck up. Trade is how you make money. Outsource all the shitty polluting jobs to keep the American people healthy so we can win the next war after pansy Trump leaves.
Trump deserves to be bashed. He has demonstrated nothing but a childish attitude, incompetence and a flagrant disregard for the Earth.
He is trying to murder us all. Someone ought to put a bullet in his head.
Fuck the whales,. What have they ever done for us?
The lying bag of fat we call Trump is an outrage. We need far more protection of the rivers and oceans than we have ever had before. We need to totally get rid of coal and we need to reduce the use of oil and gasoline as well. Climate change is behind quite a few of the wars in the Arab regions and we are already paying a dreadful price for past and current pollution. What we do not need is a sleeze bag trying to destroy conservation efforts.
Then let's do nuclear.... It's the most environment-friendly energy-production we have...
Go with thorium or something similar and you don't even have the risk of a melt-down... We could build them in the old uranium mines (and covered with dirt) and when they are retired it should not be more than a few hundred years before we can ignore them.. If they would leak it would still be on the same level of radioactivity we had in the ground before we dug the uranium up.
What the "environmentalists" don't care about is not the earth.. If they care they would listen to reason and look at actual facts instead of "it feels good".
You know that an artificial lake, like the ones use for hydro-power, releases a shitload of co2?
It's funny how most liberals scream that other people are wrong all the time, but if someone says anything bad about their ideas you get called a fascist.
I'm not liberal or alt-right or have any party-affiliation... I would love a society where everyone could be impartial to who submitted a study/idea/action that would be a peer-review of said study/proposed action and then discuss and come to an agreement if the study is scientifically valid and the proposed action would be justifiable to correct the issue found in the study. All done without any party-affiliation.
Currently you have to go with the side that has the most matching and least amount of non-matching thoughts..
Trump has had a few good ideas, but 80-90% has probably been garbage.. The same goes for any other politician in the world.. They all have their own small world-view and act solely on that, and if they change their mind they get bashed by both their followers and opposition.
Support freedom and US energy independence.
I support both things highly which is why we need to dump oil entirely. Solar, wind and nuclear (especially 4th gen reactors) could make us fully independent if we only invested in them.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Quite a big chunk still:
https://www.topuniversities.co...
Then you have people going to college before they know what they want to do so they stay there, building up debt.
https://www.edvisors.com/colle...
So lets say 4-5% yearly interest and 4 years at a in-state public college. 4*20k = 80k.. 4% of that is $3200 per year in interest plus paying it off.. So if we say 20 years to pay it off.. Thats $4000 for the first year and then slowly dropping down. Quite a bit of money for most people that just got out of school and started their first job..
I would say scrap all publicly funded/partly funded colleges and have the state offer scholarships in areas needed by the society as a whole... And only allow student-loan financed degrees in areas that are in demand in the work-force. And offer self-studying people to just pay for the tests to get the degree, if they can manage to study on their own.
You know that, right? We wanted this. Wanted the chaos. God help us all.
The majority of people in the US (by popular vote) actually did not want this.
Fuck you reality-free Trumpies/Clintonists. GET TESTED FOR LYING.
Fixed that you
9 out of 10 doctors recommend Trump bashing for their liberal patients still suffering from existential butt hurt after November 2016.
Like when Obama expanded offshore drilling (before the Deepwater Horizon disaster):
http://www.politico.com/story/2010/03/obama-expands-offshore-drilling-035223
Then why did Trump take the visitor logs to the white house out of public view, if lobbyists are "so powerless?"
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Slashdot is a geek/tech news agregator. This article has nothing to do with that bullshit. I get the shills are constantly out in force pushing their "OMG Literally Russia!" or whatever retarded bullshit they can concoct and collude with MSM over, but that doesn't mean it has to be here on Slashdot. I guess the shill money is too good to ignore, eh?
I thought it was the right-wingers who were trying to prevent aid money from going for family planning?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Nuclear only looks cost-effective when propped up by large government subsidies and allowing the environmental impact to be someone else's problem.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
you'd think that Trump didn't know that millions of Americans rely on healthy fish populations for sustenance, jobs, and recreation.
Only a fool CEO would start drilling offshore because of Trump's EO. It is temporary. There is a very good chance that it will be undone in four years. And that would mean all of the time and money invested will be for naught.
Obama actually did set aside large areas of endangered habitat from such destructive activities - Like the arctic, a perfect example.
I work in the oil industry, and am currently working in the Arctic. The oil companies are not destroying habitat up here. Anytime a well is drilled, there is no trace when they're done. The wildlife up here is treated with the utmost respect, and measures are taken to protect the wildlife no matter the cost. Containment measures are very effective in the event of an issue. If a drop of anything hits the ground, the soil is dug up and replaced. The caribou migration will be happening soon, it's a sight to see. You should visit.
I've never seen it used outside of tumblr blogs.
YMMV, but in my experience, "he" or "she" will serve in most cases, with "they" working in almost all of the other cases. Generally speaking, you don't ever really need to think about new pronouns. The ones you know already are the ones that are commonly used.
Other pronouns, while very specific, can generally be replaced with "they" without ruffling too many feathers.
In terms of speaking or writing, "he/she" is unweildy, and should be replaced with "they".
For further reference, please see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
I need some citations and pics of before and after sites.
Because ancedotes are like assholes, everybody has one xD
Do you support dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and direct control of industry and commerce in matters relating to the environment?
If not, you are not an environmental fascist.
You probably mean that you believe very strongly that many parts of the environment are worth protecting or preserving, which is an entirely different concept.
Modded down for telling the truth. What a shame: oh nm this is slashdot.
Does no one read the article? Even the little summary has it. "This review is likely to result in a relaxation of the strict protections the previous administration". Likely hardly sounds like enough to make the assumptions in the article. Do people really just glaze over this shit and ignore it? No wonder it's so crazy now a days. People have no reading comprehension anymore. This story is nothing more that an opinionated piece of drivel from a left leaning tech site that doesn't even cover tech well anymore. You can hate Trump as much as you want but if you fall for the bullshit of articles like this one, Trump is the least of your problems.
No Jack, you're just another GOP illiterate.
People untutored in biochemistry have no idea that raw crude is biodegradable. It naturally decomposes and given enough time and exposure to above ground environment you'll never know there was ever a spill
They got a great deal of it up anyway.
very good
I'm giving up moderating hoping to wake some people up.
1) Nuclear power takes 10+ years to build. This is fact not some next gen "in 5 years" magical nuclear power which can go from permit to power in a year. By the time they build nuclear power, the coal plants will have been running too long. Global warming has time limits... which we probably passed already (but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to minimize how much we are screwed.)
2) Solar is cheaper than nuclear, has been for years now. Wind I believe did or will soon.
3) Nuclear is HEAVILY subsidized by government, it's totally dishonest. If you subsidized solar and wind that much they'd be so much cheaper it would be funny to look at anything else. (coal is subsidized too; even with automation killing about half their jobs natural gas is the main reason they can't compete and I don't think natural gas is subsidized as much as coal.)
4) Base power issues are almost solvable with an upgraded GRID. the transition process might take 10 years (depending on our motivation if we acted like this was WW3 it would be done in no time.) Natural Gas can fill the gap.
5) Battery storage is a new market. It is moving quickly. We could move to storage right now at higher prices-- we don't need to WAIT for the perfect solution-- which is a common trick used to delay progress. The time and cost wasted on nuclear can be put into battery storage power. If we are SERIOUS we can take the added expense on, it's pure BS to say we can't do something right now.
6) Nuclear regulation is poor and less of it won't help; more of it likely won't help either since it's just more of the same incompetence. They only people who seem capable of managing nuclear properly is our military. The worries about it being safe are totally justified. Sure newer stuff is better, the newest things actually being done NOW are way better but are they as safe as our growing incompetence? I think that is hard to predict... Maybe the "in 5 years" tech will be that safe but it's going to take too long to implement even with a faster build process because it's new tech that won't be proven for maybe the 10 years a conventional nuclear plant would take to build.
7) too many people. most problems are a result of too many people in the world. that is the topic that never gets discussed. we will have 10 billion people not long from now unless a bunch die off. (many years ago now everybody needed was born-- they will have kids at projected rates and that gives us 10 billion. known. already. trends have to drastically change for the basic stats to not be proven true.)
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For the jobs created cleaning up the mess.
Ah, some RWNJ alt facts eh?
China is going renewable big time, and trying hard to clean up their environment, whilst Trump dismantles the EPA. But its leftists harming the environment, LMAO.
What a stupid cunt YOU ARE.
You're a paid shill trying to protect oil companies from reality.
So the entire morning dale east is advanced? You little minded freak. Almost all petrol comes from oil. You are the literal retard here. Holy shot you are stupid.
It's not like the wikileaks stuff is the only indication of her mistakes. It's out in the open and not really disputed.
You should check out the recent rolling stone review (i.e. not a conservative "rag" or whatever) where her aides and supporters could not answer the question of why Hillary should be running.
Not casting doubt on the peculiarity of the DNC deaths right after the leaks, it's just that your point is out in the open.