We Need More Land/Sea to Drill—NOT!
All we here as the American people is how our vicious greenies (please forgive the slight, personally not my opinion) have stopped our oil and natural gas energy companies from drilling on federal land and sea areas that could help save us from our energy crisis that we are facing….
Guess what they can’t even use what they have NOW! On top of that there are investigations going on about these same companies not paying all or part of the royalties they owe for drilling on the small percentage they already have the right to drill on. According to the House Committee of Natural Resources opening comments that only 12% of offshore and even less of the land they have the right to drill are being utilized. Yet these companies that are demanding more access to federal (OUR) public land.
You can hear the Misconduct Involving Oil and Gas Royalty Collections from C-Span radio if you wish to hear this yourself. Warning it is scheduled for 3 hours, as I am listening live I cannot tell if it will go over or not. I have to say that only listening for the beginning was enough to get me to write and get it to the attention of all American people so they can know that we want not only answers but action, from what they have said this has been going on for over 2 years but reports needed to be made before these hearings could be done. 2 years of finding corruption (surprise, surprise) being so invasive to the department that was supposed to make sure that BIG Energy Companies not only paid their royalties but did so one time and followed the paramiters that they had to follow to drill on public land/sea.
After all this only 2 people have been charged at this point, both have entered guilty pleas, but only 2. Of course the last was on this past Monday and more are being investigated, but at the rate they are going the people might die of old age or worse out of the 15 min consciousness of the American People as a whole.
I have to say that I am amazed that they are cleaning it up from the top down, not that there are not those from the bottom and public at large that didn’t fight to get it noticed. Just that the House Committtee and the current Secertart of Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, the Inspector General, Earl Devaney, are all together asking for these Energy Companies and those at the MMS, Mineral Management Service, are brought forward for their ethical failures.
Unfortunately the end date for the new 5-year lease drilling closed already I did find a portal to let the public comment on projects and documents that are openm for comment. Click Here to see what we the public have the ability to comment on.