Obama Administration Approving Only 35 Percent of Gulf Drilling Plans

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A new report from a New Orleans-based group reveals that the Obama administration is approving just 35 percent of the oil drilling plans for the Gulf of Mexico so far this year. It is also taking an average of 115 days — nearly four months — to secure approval from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.

Those numbers contrast sharply from previous years. This historical average is a 73.4% approval rate. The approval time has nearly doubled; the historical average is 61 days for the government to approve plans.

For plans that require drilling activity, the numbers are even worse. New regulations require all deepwater drilling plans to undergo an environmental assessment process. Those plans have an average approval time of 222 days or more than seven months.

The data were included in the latest release of the Gulf Permit Index from Greater New Orleans Inc. It has monitored this trend since last year’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The delays have continued for more than 18 months later.

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  • http://facebook pat

    ohhh,,and the obullcrap admin wants this country too be energy independent…NOT..
    its less than a year now folks,,,no matter what this snake tries too slither out of the next 11 months..Keep an eye on the prize…get this socialist monster out of office..

    • True Patriot

      I agree we need to get this American-hating, communist out of OUR White House as soon as we can. Contrary to what he says, Obumer wants to kill jobs not create jobs. His mission is to destroy America from within. See website: http://www.haasstrep68.com

    • Gordon

      $2 billion to Brazil, after 3 years study for Canadian pipeline, more study, Ohio oil sands
      6 months more study, no drilling in Alaska or any were else. Obama’s ideology is spread
      the wealth, we’re to rich, we have to be at the same level as Obama’s homeland Kenya.
      Obama’s a Marxist along with those that surround him, including George Soros and Company. Obama has lied ever since 2007. I don’t wish him ill, well maybe a little.

      • Beepster

        “Obama has lied ever since 2007.”

        Are you kidding me? Since 2007? That sukker was born lieing . The only truthfulness from him was when he said (paraphrased), “When things look bad for the Muslims, I will take the Muslims’ side.”

    • Maynard Merrell

      I’ve always believed that America should be so economicly and militarily strong, that no nation on this earth would want to mess with us, from without or from within. No domestic or foreign enemies. No damn subversives, like those presently in alll branches of our federal government. Get rid of them and be’d be well on the road to recovery. They are the same kind of subversives that kept America from recovering from the Great Depression. This means don’t vote for liberals, liberalism being a mask for subversives of all kinds, which means we don’t vote for democrates where most liberals are found. The liberals in the republican party should switch to the democratic party, and the patriots in the democratic party should switch to the republican party; this would give voters a much better idea as to who to vote for. Eliminate the confusion.
      As an independent nation, which we arn’t at the present since we depend on trade with our enemy nations for our salvation, we must be self efficent, which means to use our own resourses, and to traded efficiently with other nations, honestly, not corruptly. Build a military force greater than that of any other nation, including Red China, thanks to GE and other unpatriotic, money hungry busineses, which presently has the largest military in the world, and can do us tremendous harm with the missels it has that can reach America. Our federal government has been very stupid with its dealings with our enemies. I’ve always been proud to be an American, but over the years I’ve seen too many politicians that have left me with doubts about their patriotism. How many oil companies in America are owned by Americans? We should have laws preventing any foreign country, or its citizens, from purchasing any American company. Let those countries develope themselfs, just as we have done. What are you thoughts?

      • T-Texas

        Amen

    • tpm44

      Not in Hawaii ! click on the link below—interesting! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded
      THIS NEEDS TO GO VIRAL

      Can one doubt his own admission? Where is Sixty Minutes?
      Who would believe Obama is actually on this video admitting he was not born in Hawaii but was born in Kenya and is not even a citizen. Obviously he made these statements because he did not know at that time that a president must be a “natural born” citizen. OOPS!

      • Red

        It makes no difference. The man he claims was his father was a British citizen, therefore, Obama is not ‘natural born’ making his place of birth of no consequence. NEXT!

      • T-Texas

        He was probably high on crack and told the truth while under the influence and there fore cannot be held accountable.

  • Irishmist1000

    Just another of that insane, crazy, left-wing, progressive liberal, communist, democrap, stupid, idiot obumer to stop progress in this country. Every other country in the world who wants to drill for oil is doing so, even in shallow water. The leadership in AMERICA is the most dismal that can be. The government and its leadership is so corrupt that I can’t imagine it getting any worse. WE THE PEOPLE, must get off our duffs and do something right now! We can’t afford any more of this nonsense that is spewing from the mouths of our “so called leadership”.

  • Jim R

    Obumer has stopped the growth plans again. This is the stupiest man in the United States. How in the hell did he win the presidency.

    Oil Production is the key to the turn around for us. Please, someone tell me that the ego maniac will not be with us for 4 more years……Please…Please……

    • Richard A. Schwartz

      Another example of stupid. The Chinese are drilling 60 miles off coast. What happens if they have problems? Where will oil go?DA Remember this guy doesn’t have time for congress. He must act NOW! For a man we were told was brilliant is showing us another side. His cabinet won’t accept responsibility and neither will he. If I had a plan I would go find a way to get it passed. This guy doesn’t have courage to confront congress. Esacuse my language but what an asshole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • Harry M

        The stupid Kenyan fraud is a puppet of George Soros.

        • Maynard Merrell

          Soros is another multi billionair member of the communist/socialist front known as the Bilderberg Groupe. The last I knew its membership consisted of about 150 multibilionairs who own most of the bussinesses in the world, in cluding banks, and the Federal Reserve. They are the parent orhanization of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the trilateral Commission, the G-20 and G-8, and Lord knows what else, but just about everything. Their pirpose is to establish a One World Government, the United Nations being its capital, and is one ereason why their hasn’t been as much terrorism in America as their certainly could be.

    • Maynard Merrell

      Stupid people elected him. Suckers that will believe anybody that will make life easier for them, rather work for what they can honestly purchaes for themselves.

  • Leonard

    obama isn’t interested in getting this country jobs.he’s killing jobs.

    • Maynard Merrell

      Obama is a socialist. His only interest is to bankrupt our economy by spend, spend, spend. Close businesses, lay off workers, and make people miserable by have no work, or income. Create a crises which will cause the people to cry out for a savor. This is when communist/socialist leaders step foreward, as did the socialist Hitler in Germany, and say, “Ill save you,” and the people will fall for all his nice talk. This is what Obama did and look where it got him, and us who didn’t vote for him. The innocent can suffer the consequences. We saw through his reteric, but were out voted by coruption and the ignorant. Now look at the mess we’re in. Those of us who write replies and comments should try to educate, and not make nonsense remarks as some so often do.

  • http://www.newsandopinions.net Bill Stanley

    Czar Obama has to appease the environmentalists.

  • http://none Marvin

    Why all the silence about the “BAKKEN RESERVE” ?????????????????

    Why aren’t you raising hell??????????????

    • Red

      How about you, friend Marvin? What are you doing about the shut down of oil and gas industry?

  • http://mozilla Robert E. Lee

    RECALL THE IDIOT. He is a total failure except to his communist agenda, get the fool out of America.

  • Mutantone

    And how many of those were foreign owned drilling companies?We have to remember that they have been giving preferential treatment to the Chines when it comes to drilling in the USA

  • Deb Hanes

    Even more proof the idiot in the whitehouse doesn’t want to get Americans working.. at every point he does something that slows it up or stops it all together.. what in hell is wrong with this man?

  • tod

    Dr. Ron Paul 2012 for the ONLY PROVEN HONEST(for Well Over 30 Years),Intelligent ,God Fearing,Patriot running for President,PERIOD !!!

    • Maynard Merrell

      I agree, along with Bchmann.

      • Red

        Neither can win. If you strays don’t gert behind a winner we are all going to live to regret it!

  • chuck

    WHAT ELSE WOULD U EXPECT FROM THE ANTI AMERICAM MUSLIM OBLAMER.

    • Maynard Merrell

      The muslims dance on the strings of their puppet masters, Red China and Russia. The communist primary objective by any means necesary is: “First we shall take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia. We shall surround the United Sataes, but will not have to attack, fore she will fall into our hands like an over ripe fruit.” Who do you think is suppose to come across our Mecican boarder, if we’re not over ripe enough, and military force is necessary? Red China, through a front bussinessman, owns and operates the Panama Canal, and has been shipping in military weapons to communist guerrillas all up and down Central America. We’ve done nothing about it. And Red China has been enlarging the Canal for larger ships to pass through quicker. But why worry? They’re our friends, arn’t they?

  • Julian

    How many of the permits has he approved for the China-Cuba-French Company to drill in this same Gulf??? Oh, they don’t need his approval or our drilling safety standards or Salazar’s convienent missed inspections.

  • Victor Barney

    Again, you readers must wake-up! Our voting majority that are bringing this country into marxism are women! They(i.e. women) are the more verbally adept sex among u.s. and blacks and marxism appeals to them! I’m not being sexist or racist, just factual! If you don’t believe that women didn’t know that they were voting in a promised marxist(anti-christ) takeover, then you also believe that Adam could have stopped his wife’s intellectualizing! Now, really!

  • Tony N

    This is why the USA NEEDS a Domestic Energy development Policy NOW !!!!!

    The ELITE blew it , REVEALED their plans to start WORLD WAR 3

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlf7XYtBVlY&feature=player_embedded

    And the Video that Explains why we need a Independent supply of not just Energy but everything Vital too human Life in the USA !!! The debate about the Collective theory being more Important than the individual is a erosion of the concept of Liberty’s ability to Sustain Freedom from the Power of the Collective to concentrate prosperity into the hands of the Centralized Collective Government and that effect the expansion and sustainability of production to feed a societies needs .

    http://www.youtube.com/user/LearnLiberty?v=WZgVUCGva8w&feature=pyv&ad=8301426849&kw=conservative

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  • Another Veteran

    It sounds like Obama is wanting to cut our supply of US resources back and completely make us dependent upon foreign oil. There is a rat here and it stinks! Someone is going to make an awful lot of money by restricting drilling in the gulf and it isn’t the citizens of this country, I believe it’s the crooked Democrats!

    • Chuck

      Cripple the oil and gas industry so that it is easily nationalized and brings all that revenue directly into the U.S. Treasury to be “spread around” to his socialist buddies all over the globe.

  • Roger

    Aren’t most of those approvals just renewals and not “new” requests?

  • Eric Haulenbeek

    I can’t wait for this bozo and his underlings to get tossed out of the WH. He’s been a real disaster!

  • Brujo Blanco

    Obama wanted to front money to Brazil to drill but not here in the states