Federal Judge Grants Injunction on Biden’s Oil, Gas Ban on Federal Lands

[nortatoga]

Judge Grants Injunction on Biden's Oil and Gas Ban on Public Lands

Louisiana AG Jeff Landry is leading a 13-state coalition that is suing Biden for halting all oil and gas operations on federal lands.

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Federal Judge Grants Injunction on Biden’s Oil, Gas Ban on Federal Lands​

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PENNY STARR17 Nov 2021144
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A federal judge on Monday issued a nationwide injunction on President Joe Biden’s executive order to halt oil and gas operations on all federal lands in the name of fighting so-called climate change.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry led the lawsuit joined by 12 other states and reacted to the court’s decision, calling it good for America.

“This is a victory not only for the rule of law, but also for the thousands of workers who produce affordable energy for Americans,” Landry said. “The President’s Executive Order abandons middle-class jobs, cripples our economy, and hits everyday Americans where it hurts the most – their pocketbooks.”
Moreover, Landry said Biden’s order actually hurts the environment.

US President Joe Biden speaks during the World Leaders’ Summit “Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment” session at the COP26 Climate Conference at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland on November 2, 2021. (Steve Reigate/AFP via Getty Images)
“What’s more it attacks Louisiana’s coast by reducing the revenue and royalties used for coastal restoration and hurricane protection,” Landry said. A press release stated:

In last week’s oral arguments, lawyers from Attorney General Landry’s Office said that Biden Officials cannot legally halt all lease sales because Congress, by statute, has commanded that such lease sales happen on a regular basis. They cited the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Mineral Leasing Act as explicitly prohibiting the Biden Ban.

“By executive fiat, Joe Biden and his administration have single-handedly driven the price of energy up – costing the American people where it hurts most, in their pocketbooks,” Landry said when the lawsuit was filed. “Biden’s executive orders abandon middle-class jobs at a time when America needs them most and put our energy security in the hands of foreign countries, many of whom despise America’s greatness.”
The lawsuit stated, in part:

The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and Mineral Leasing Act set out specific statutory duties requiring executive agencies to further the expeditious and safe development of the abundant energy. In compliance with those statutes, the Department of the Interior has for decades issued leases for the development of oil and natural gas on public lands and offshore waters.
“For decades, Congress has embraced responsible development of our natural resources as a means of achieving energy independence – a matter of national security,” Landry said. “They have discarded vulnerable dependence on foreign oil, which is why the court should reject the Biden Ban.”

In addition to Louisiana, the following states joined in the lawsuit filed on Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
Biden and other Democrat leftists claim that the fossil fuel industry must be shut down to save the planet from so-called climate change. Under former President Donald Trump, the United States for the first time was energy independent and no longer relied on foreign energy sources.

In this Nov. 3, 2015, photo, the Keystone Steele City pumping station, into which the planned Keystone XL pipeline is to connect to, is seen in Steele City, Neb. The Obama administration says Nov. 4, it is continuing a review of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, despite a request by the project’s developer to suspend the review. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Since taking office, Biden has not only halted oil and gas production on public lands but also shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline, which created energy and jobs and benefited the economies of numerous western states with public land.
The case is Louisiana v. Biden, 2:21-cv-00778 U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

 

[nortatoga]

A friend sent me this also....

Someone with a sharp mind and the capacity to do a little research spent time putting some numbers together.

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Pipelines vs. Trains vs. Cargo Ships


1 Train has 100 cars, 2 engines and weighs 27,240,000 LBS

1 Train carries 3,000,000 gallons of crude oil.

1 train uses 55.5 gallons of diesel per mile.

It takes 119,000 gallons of diesel to go 2150 miles from Hardisty, AB to Freeport, TX.

Keystone pipeline was to deliver 34,860,000 gallons of crude oil per day.

It would take 12 trains and 1,428,000 gallons of diesel to deliver that amount. PER DAY!

521,220,000 gallons of diesel per year.

The crude oil will still go to market with or without the pipeline.

By stopping the pipeline billions of gallons of diesel will be wasted and pollute needlessly. Does that make you feel good?

Stop the Tar Sands all together? Then we must ship the crude oil from the overseas sandbox.

1 large oil tanker can haul 120,000,000 gallons of crude oil.

1 boat takes 15 days to float across the Atlantic.

1 boat uses 63,000 gallons of fuel PER DAY, that is about 1 million gallons of the most polluting type fuel in the world PER TRIP.*(See below)

Or take 3.5 days of Keystone Pipeline to move the same amount of crude oil with a fraction of the pollution.

In international waters ship emissions remains one of the least regulated parts of our global transportation system. The fuel used in ships is waste oil (aka Bunker Fuel or #10 diesel), basically what is left over after the crude oil refining process. It is the same as asphalt and is so thick that when cold it can be walked upon. It's the cheapest and most polluting fuel available and the world's 90,000 ships chew through an astonishing 7.29 million barrels of it each day, or more than 84% of all exported oil production from Saudi Arabia.

Shipping is by far the biggest transport polluter in the world. There are 760 million cars in the world today emitting approx 78,599 tons of Sulfur Oxides (SOx) annually. The world's 90,000 vessels burn approx 370 million tons of fuel per year emitting 20 million tons of Sulfur Oxides. That equates to 260 times more Sulfur Oxides being emitted by ships than the worlds entire car fleet. One large ship alone can generate approximately 5,200 tonnes of sulfur oxide pollution in a year, meaning that 15 of the largest ships now emit as much SOx as the worlds 760 million cars

Want to eliminate all gas consuming cars and diesel vehicles?

Worldwide car gas consumption is 403,583,712,000 gallons a year. That's billion.

Worldwide crude oil consumption is 1,500,000,000,000 gallons a year. That's trillion.

It takes 2.15 gallons of crude oil to make 1 gallon of gasoline/petrol, and 6 gallons of diesel.

So it takes 867,704,980,800 gallons of crude oil to run the worlds' cars, most diesel vehicles, and some ships, for a year. (Remember, all of the world's aircraft use av-gas or jet fuel. Both are made from crude oil and the amount used is not a part of these calculations.)

That leaves 632,295,019,200 gallons of crude oil for other uses.
Passenger vehicles are only a very small percentage of the problem. If emissions are the problem why not just capture them at the exhaust? Create an industry to clean exhaust instead of crushing an entire industry and building a complete untested, replacement industry?

So are we willing to dramatically increase mining to get all the minerals necessary to make all these batteries and electric motors? Mining is far worse for the environment than oil extraction. Remember, right now the lithium automobile batteries cannot be recycled at the end of their useful lives, nor can electric cars if they happen to catch on fire due to the lithium contamination on the metal and plastic parts.
Killing Keystone was glibly decided on by emotional idiots without brains! Destructive idiots who are fooling America to boost their standing with Foreign paymasters.
THAT DOESN'T WORK FOR REAL AMERICANS!
Don't even get me started on wind turbines.

 

[MothMan]

Ah yes Schumer’s oil trains. They run near my home several times a day.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

 

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