Joe Biden 2023: The Dark Brandon Rises

[Brisketexan 104563]

That's not much of a game.

Sounds like you need to consult your crystals and check your aura.

[tx 3 putt 76322]

 

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[Bullneck 18987]

I don't think Ronny Jackson is worth his own thread, so I guess this goes here.

 

 

 

 

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33837]

they're an irreparably broken bunch. I wish the military would crack down on this kind of shit. make a few examples out of people. 

[Voldemort86 2259]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/plunge-border-crossings-could-blunt-050814346.html
 

good news. There’s a massive drop in illegal border crossings since Biden’s new policy in December. Will Biden get any credit from the gop? No….those people are sick assholes who will criticize him even when things are going well, but it should make it much harder for the GOP to attack him if this issue stays under control.

[Biff Tannen 45491]

4 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/plunge-border-crossings-could-blunt-050814346.html
 

good news. There’s a massive drop in illegal border crossings since Biden’s new policy in December. Will Biden get any credit from the gop? No….those people are sick assholes who will criticize him even when things are going well, but it should make it much harder for the GOP to attack him if this issue stays under control.

Unfortunately, he's going to get some blowback from the left because of the new immigration tactics he's going to put in place that are a bit more draconian.  Nothing near the level of dotard separating children from their parents and then losing them on purpose, but it's going to cause some hand wringing, and rightfully so I think. 

[Voldemort86 2259]

21 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Unfortunately, he's going to get some blowback from the left because of the new immigration tactics he's going to put in place that are a bit more draconian.  Nothing near the level of dotard separating children from their parents and then losing them on purpose, but it's going to cause some hand wringing, and rightfully so I think. 

Republican or Democrat. I think a secure border is a good thing. We should at least know who’s coming into our country. Isn’t it like that in pretty much the rest of the world?

[Fudge Nuggets 19146]

11 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

Republican or Democrat. I think a secure border is a good thing. We should at least know who’s coming into our country. Isn’t it like that in pretty much the rest of the world?

Parents shouldn’t have to worry about their kids being slaughtered in their classrooms. Isn’t it like that in pretty much the rest of the world?

Edited March 7, 2023 by Fudge Nuggets

[Biff Tannen 45491]

11 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

Republican or Democrat. I think a secure border is a good thing. We should at least know who’s coming into our country. Isn’t it like that in pretty much the rest of the world?

I think there will be hand wringing by the left and screams of "what about!?!" from the right.

[Foosters 17728]

11 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

Republican or Democrat. I think a secure border is a good thing. We should at least know who’s coming into our country. Isn’t it like that in pretty much the rest of the world?

Fair. Let's adopt the way that other countries around the world do things. As long as we also mirror their approach on:

Gun control

Health care

Social safety net

Industrial and corporate regulations

Taxes

[jimmyjazz 45546]

Is this sorta like the "fentanyl seizures have spiked dramatically under Biden showing just how lax he is on drugs crossing the border"?

Asking for a friend.

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

16 minutes ago, Foosters said:

Fair. Let's adopt the way that other countries around the world do things. As long as we also mirror their approach on:

Gun control

Health care

Social safety net

Industrial and corporate regulations

Taxes

If you want to do the health care and social safety net, you pretty much have to do the taxes don’t you?

[StassneyHorn 6536]

20 hours ago, Voldemort86 said:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/plunge-border-crossings-could-blunt-050814346.html
 

good news. There’s a massive drop in illegal border crossings since Biden’s new policy in December. Will Biden get any credit from the gop? No….those people are sick assholes who will criticize him even when things are going well, but it should make it much harder for the GOP to attack him if this issue stays under control.

Don’t tell @Poe It Up

[StassneyHorn 6536]

Jeromie, not my homie, takes one on the chin from Warren

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/fed-jerome-powell-elizabeth-warren-clash-tense-exchange-rate-hikes.amp

She said a 1% increase means some 2 million American workers would end up out of work and asked Powell to address those folks directly and "explain your view that they need to lose their jobs."

The progressive senator then told Powell there have been 12 times since the end of World War II in which the unemployment rate rose by one percentage point within a year, which the Fed is now on track to do, and asked him how many of those times the U.S. economy was able to avert falling into a recession.

"You know, it's not as black and white as … very infrequent …," Powell began to answer, before Warren cut him off, saying, "Just looking at the numbers, it actually is pretty black and white."

Powell eventually said he believed the Fed was unable to avoid a recession each time unemployment rose by 1% in a year. Then, Warren grilled him further, saying, "History suggests that the Fed has a terrible track record of containing modest increases in the unemployment rate. Once the economy starts shedding jobs, it's like a runaway train."

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20342]

Dark Brandon goes on the offensive.  He stands with the police and urges Republicans to do so, too.

 

 

[wildcat09 29228]

22 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Dark Brandon goes on the offensive.  He stands with the police and urges Republicans to do so, too.

 

 

It may end up being effective, I dunno, but fuck I hate this framing of 1/6. Like it was just an attack on fucking cops, not on American democracy. I don't have a big problem with their violence against police being part of the criticism against Republicans, but it shouldn't be the headline.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20342]

7 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

It may end up being effective, I dunno, but fuck I hate this framing of 1/6. Like it was just an attack on fucking cops, not on American democracy.

Why not both?  Those of us who understand that it was an attack on democracy already get that it was an attack on democracy, but this also resonates with those who back the blue. Those two groups might not overlap very much.  Besides, it makes Republicans side with either their loonies like MTG and against the police OR with the police and against the MTG loony wing of the Republican party. Stir up the division in your opponent's camp.  Didn't Sun Tzu or Lao Tzu say that? 

Smart politics. 

[wildcat09 29228]

2 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Why not both?  Those of us who understand that it was an attack on democracy already get that it was an attack on democracy, but this also resonates with those who back the blue. Those two groups might not overlap very much.  Besides, it makes Republicans side with either their loonies like MTG and against the police OR with the police and against the MTG loony wing of the Republican party. Stir up the division in your opponent's camp.  Didn't Sun Tzu or Lao Tzu say that? 

Smart politics. 

Making the violence against cops the headline rather than the attack on American democracy implies that cops are more important than democracy. That idea is pernicious and spreading it helps the GOP's long-term anti-democratic project.

[Fudge Nuggets 19146]

1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

Making the violence against cops the headline rather than the attack on American democracy implies that cops are more important than democracy. That idea is pernicious and spreading it helps the GOP's long-term anti-democratic project.

Since Garland isn’t doing shit might as well go a different direction. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33837]

2 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Making the violence against cops the headline rather than the attack on American democracy implies that cops are more important than democracy. That idea is pernicious and spreading it helps the GOP's long-term anti-democratic project.

this is yet another example of "you know, the government CAN rub its tummy and chew bubble gum at the same time, right?" Why is everything so monochrome is this society? Biden and anyone willing to listen has stated on numerous occassions that this was an attack on democracy. and they still do. they are also reacting immediately to lies and bad politics in the form of framing the day like it a police-escorted photo op. both can and are happening at the same time. maybe diversify your media intake. you will get different messages on evening news vs cable news vs print vs twitter, etc etc. they tailor their information to their perceived audience. it's why CNN is moving more right. no one under 40 (shit, 50?) watches cable news. they are getting their information elsewhere

[wildcat09 29228]

9 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

this is yet another example of "you know, the government CAN rub its tummy and chew bubble gum at the same time, right?" Why is everything so monochrome is this society? Biden and anyone willing to listen has stated on numerous occassions that this was an attack on democracy. and they still do. they are also reacting immediately to lies and bad politics in the form of framing the day like it a police-escorted photo op. both can and are happening at the same time. maybe diversify your media intake. you will get different messages on evening news vs cable news vs print vs twitter, etc etc. they tailor their information to their perceived audience. it's why CNN is moving more right. no one under 40 (shit, 50?) watches cable news. they are getting their information elsewhere

What the fuck are you talking about, man? I'm commenting directly on a statement from the President of the United States of America. Not something I saw on CNN. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33837]

4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

What the fuck are you talking about, man? I'm commenting directly on a statement from the President of the United States of America. Not something I saw on CNN. 

so do you believe this is the first and only time he has said anything about the subject? because that's how you're reacting

[HamsterHookah 112]

10 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

Jeromie, not my homie, takes one on the chin from Warren

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/fed-jerome-powell-elizabeth-warren-clash-tense-exchange-rate-hikes.amp

She said a 1% increase means some 2 million American workers would end up out of work and asked Powell to address those folks directly and "explain your view that they need to lose their jobs."

The progressive senator then told Powell there have been 12 times since the end of World War II in which the unemployment rate rose by one percentage point within a year, which the Fed is now on track to do, and asked him how many of those times the U.S. economy was able to avert falling into a recession.

"You know, it's not as black and white as … very infrequent …," Powell began to answer, before Warren cut him off, saying, "Just looking at the numbers, it actually is pretty black and white."

Powell eventually said he believed the Fed was unable to avoid a recession each time unemployment rose by 1% in a year. Then, Warren grilled him further, saying, "History suggests that the Fed has a terrible track record of containing modest increases in the unemployment rate. Once the economy starts shedding jobs, it's like a runaway train."

I watched this in real time.

It was interesting because the commentary on the squawk box was that if 1% increase does impact 2mm workers, it's an egalitarian play insomuch as the people losing their jobs are the better off and privileged (e.g. more Tech and Finance and other higher paying jobs) versus NOT raising the rate and having current and continued inflation continue and increasingly hurt the poor, lower middle and middle class Americans (orders of magnitude > 2mm people).

[StassneyHorn 6536]

It’s musical chairs for tech and finance talent. There will be no sizable net loss in employment. Most of them will end up with better titles and more money

[TexEx15 17456]

I love the fact they made it clear who is in charge of the GQP now.

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

The comments to that tweet did not disappoint. 

[CooterBrown 17904]

The comments to that tweet did not disappoint. 

The Russian bot farms are getting paid handsomely. Every single dem tweet is now 99% MAGA replies.

[Guest]

311,000 jobs added last month. 3.6% unemployment. But people seem to hate inflation a whole lot more than they like full employment. 

 

 

[956 Worldwide 34424]

A small thing but a big thing to people who believe symbols matter. The next AF1 is going to look like AF1 is supposed to. 
 

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3326103/new-paint-design-for-next-air-force-one/

 

 

[Biff Tannen 45491]

Not making me like you Joe.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arctic-drilling-restrictions.html

Administration to Approve Huge Alaska Oil Project on Monday, Two Officials Say

Biden is also expected to put broad new limits on Arctic drilling in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the $8 billion Willow oil project, which has faced sharp climate opposition.

 

Spoiler

The Biden administration on Monday will formally approve a huge oil drilling project in Alaska known as Willow, according to two people familiar with the decision, despite widespread opposition because of its likely environmental and climate impacts.

The president will also impose sweeping restrictions on offshore oil leasing in the Arctic Ocean and across Alaska’s North Slope in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the Willow decision and, as one administration official put it, to form a “firewall” to limit future oil leases in the region. The Interior Department also is expected to issue new rules to protect more than 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from oil and gas leasing.

The restrictions, however, are unlikely to offset concerns that the $8 billion Willow project, led by oil giant ConocoPhillips, will have the potential to produce more than 600 million barrels of crude over 30 years.

Burning all that oil could release nearly 280 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. On an annual basis, that would translate into 9.2 million metric tons of carbon pollution, equal to adding nearly two million cars to the roads each year. The United States, the second biggest polluter on the planet after China, emits about 5.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

 

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The president has been lobbied fiercely by the oil industry and Alaska lawmakers to approve the Willow drilling project, which will take place inside the petroleum reserve. Other supporters, including labor unions, building trades and some residents of the North Slope, have argued that the project would create about 2,500 jobs and generate as much as $17 billion in revenue for the federal government.

At the same time, environmental activists and some Native American communities have fought the project through online campaigns, protests and meetings with federal officials, charging that approval of the project would be a betrayal of Mr. Biden’s pledge to move the nation away from fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency has said that governments must stop approving new oil, gas and coal projects if the planet is to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

 

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Representatives from ConocoPhillips said Sunday night that they haven’t yet seen a written decision and declined to comment until one had been made official.

Climate activists said that they were pleased the president plans to protect the Arctic but remained outraged that Mr. Biden, who has made fighting climate change a top priority, would approve a project they term a “carbon bomb.”

 

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Continue reading the main story

 

“It’s insulting that Biden thinks this will change our minds about the Willow project,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. “Protecting one area of the Arctic so you can destroy another doesn’t make sense, and it won’t help the people and wildlife who will be upended by the Willow project.”

 

The decision is sure to invite legal challenges from environmental groups.

The Biden administration intends to approve permits for three drilling sites and deny two others, including one that would have been closest to a coastal wetland known as Teshekpuk Lake, according to two people familiar with the decision who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the announcement. The administration also will deny a road that would have led to the fourth drilling site, the two people said.

The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment on the Willow decision beyond referring to remarks by Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, on Friday that a final decision hadn’t been made.

Administration officials are moving ahead with the Willow project despite its environmental analysis raised “substantial concerns” about emissions, danger to freshwater sources and threats to migratory birds, caribou, whales and other animals that inhabit the region.

According to the two people familiar with the deliberations, the administration has concluded that it doesn’t have the legal authority to deny permits to ConocoPhillips, which has long held leases on the land in the petroleum reserve.

 

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Continue reading the main story

 

ConocoPhillips had initially sought five drilling sites for the project and had called the approval of three pads the minimum number that they would find acceptable. The company had indicated that it would back out if there were fewer, saying the project would no longer be financially viable.

In addition to rejecting two of the proposed drilling sites, the people familiar with the decision said the administration also will announce that ConocoPhillips will return about 67,000 acres of land back to the government. The petroleum reserve, located about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is the country’s largest single expanse of pristine land.

The cornerstone of Mr. Biden’s new Arctic environmental pledges, which he is expected to detail on Monday, will be a declaration that the entire Arctic Ocean will be off limits to oil and gas leasing, completing an effort that began under President Barack Obama.

The Interior Department said Mr. Biden will designate about 2.8 million acres of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean near shore in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as indefinitely off limits for future oil and gas leasing. That will ensure “this important habitat for whales, seals, polar bears, as well as for subsistence purposes, will be protected in perpetuity from extractive development,” the Interior Department said in a statement.

Mr. Obama banned drilling in portions of the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, using a 1953 law that allows presidents to block the sale of offshore drilling and mining rights. President Trump later tried to open all coastal waters of the United States to oil and gas drilling, including the areas protected by the Obama administration.

 

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Continue reading the main story

 

In addition to the ban on new Arctic drilling, the Interior Department will issue rules to protect more than 13 million of the 23 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from oil and gas leasing.

Mr. Biden also will announce protections for a number of sites in Alaska, including Teshekpuk Lake, Utukok Uplands, Colville River, Kasegaluk Lagoon and Peard Bay Special Areas.

Oil industry officials criticized the planned Arctic protections.

“In the current energy crisis, the Biden administration should be focused on strengthening U.S. energy security and standing with the working families of Alaska by supporting the responsible development of federal lands and waters — not acting to restrict it,” said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of policy at the American Petroleum Institute, a trade organization.

 

[Woland 729]

Not making me like you Joe.  
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arctic-drilling-restrictions.html

Administration to Approve Huge Alaska Oil Project on Monday, Two Officials Say

Biden is also expected to put broad new limits on Arctic drilling in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the $8 billion Willow oil project, which has faced sharp climate opposition.

 

Spoiler

The Biden administration on Monday will formally approve a huge oil drilling project in Alaska known as Willow, according to two people familiar with the decision, despite widespread opposition because of its likely environmental and climate impacts.

The president will also impose sweeping restrictions on offshore oil leasing in the Arctic Ocean and across Alaska’s North Slope in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the Willow decision and, as one administration official put it, to form a “firewall” to limit future oil leases in the region. The Interior Department also is expected to issue new rules to protect more than 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from oil and gas leasing.

The restrictions, however, are unlikely to offset concerns that the $8 billion Willow project, led by oil giant ConocoPhillips, will have the potential to produce more than 600 million barrels of crude over 30 years.

Burning all that oil could release nearly 280 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. On an annual basis, that would translate into 9.2 million metric tons of carbon pollution, equal to adding nearly two million cars to the roads each year. The United States, the second biggest polluter on the planet after China, emits about 5.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

 

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story  

The president has been lobbied fiercely by the oil industry and Alaska lawmakers to approve the Willow drilling project, which will take place inside the petroleum reserve. Other supporters, including labor unions, building trades and some residents of the North Slope, have argued that the project would create about 2,500 jobs and generate as much as $17 billion in revenue for the federal government.

At the same time, environmental activists and some Native American communities have fought the project through online campaigns, protests and meetings with federal officials, charging that approval of the project would be a betrayal of Mr. Biden’s pledge to move the nation away from fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency has said that governments must stop approving new oil, gas and coal projects if the planet is to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

  Have Climate Questions? Get Answers Here. What’s causing global warming? How can we fix it? This interactive F.A.Q. will tackle your climate questions big and small.

Representatives from ConocoPhillips said Sunday night that they haven’t yet seen a written decision and declined to comment until one had been made official.

Climate activists said that they were pleased the president plans to protect the Arctic but remained outraged that Mr. Biden, who has made fighting climate change a top priority, would approve a project they term a “carbon bomb.”

 

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story  

“It’s insulting that Biden thinks this will change our minds about the Willow project,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. “Protecting one area of the Arctic so you can destroy another doesn’t make sense, and it won’t help the people and wildlife who will be upended by the Willow project.”

 

The decision is sure to invite legal challenges from environmental groups.

The Biden administration intends to approve permits for three drilling sites and deny two others, including one that would have been closest to a coastal wetland known as Teshekpuk Lake, according to two people familiar with the decision who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the announcement. The administration also will deny a road that would have led to the fourth drilling site, the two people said.

The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment on the Willow decision beyond referring to remarks by Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, on Friday that a final decision hadn’t been made.

Administration officials are moving ahead with the Willow project despite its environmental analysis raised “substantial concerns” about emissions, danger to freshwater sources and threats to migratory birds, caribou, whales and other animals that inhabit the region.

According to the two people familiar with the deliberations, the administration has concluded that it doesn’t have the legal authority to deny permits to ConocoPhillips, which has long held leases on the land in the petroleum reserve.

 

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story  

ConocoPhillips had initially sought five drilling sites for the project and had called the approval of three pads the minimum number that they would find acceptable. The company had indicated that it would back out if there were fewer, saying the project would no longer be financially viable.

In addition to rejecting two of the proposed drilling sites, the people familiar with the decision said the administration also will announce that ConocoPhillips will return about 67,000 acres of land back to the government. The petroleum reserve, located about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is the country’s largest single expanse of pristine land.

The cornerstone of Mr. Biden’s new Arctic environmental pledges, which he is expected to detail on Monday, will be a declaration that the entire Arctic Ocean will be off limits to oil and gas leasing, completing an effort that began under President Barack Obama.

The Interior Department said Mr. Biden will designate about 2.8 million acres of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean near shore in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as indefinitely off limits for future oil and gas leasing. That will ensure “this important habitat for whales, seals, polar bears, as well as for subsistence purposes, will be protected in perpetuity from extractive development,” the Interior Department said in a statement.

Mr. Obama banned drilling in portions of the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, using a 1953 law that allows presidents to block the sale of offshore drilling and mining rights. President Trump later tried to open all coastal waters of the United States to oil and gas drilling, including the areas protected by the Obama administration.

 

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story  

In addition to the ban on new Arctic drilling, the Interior Department will issue rules to protect more than 13 million of the 23 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from oil and gas leasing.

Mr. Biden also will announce protections for a number of sites in Alaska, including Teshekpuk Lake, Utukok Uplands, Colville River, Kasegaluk Lagoon and Peard Bay Special Areas.

Oil industry officials criticized the planned Arctic protections.

“In the current energy crisis, the Biden administration should be focused on strengthening U.S. energy security and standing with the working families of Alaska by supporting the responsible development of federal lands and waters — not acting to restrict it,” said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of policy at the American Petroleum Institute, a trade organization.

 

Blah, blah… Corporations are going to advocate for policies that increase profits. Politicians are going to advocate for policies that increase political advantage. All the details in-between is white noise.

[gmr548 16491]

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

Not making me like you Joe.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arctic-drilling-restrictions.html

Administration to Approve Huge Alaska Oil Project on Monday, Two Officials Say

Biden is also expected to put broad new limits on Arctic drilling in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the $8 billion Willow oil project, which has faced sharp climate opposition.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

The Biden administration on Monday will formally approve a huge oil drilling project in Alaska known as Willow, according to two people familiar with the decision, despite widespread opposition because of its likely environmental and climate impacts.

The president will also impose sweeping restrictions on offshore oil leasing in the Arctic Ocean and across Alaska’s North Slope in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the Willow decision and, as one administration official put it, to form a “firewall” to limit future oil leases in the region. The Interior Department also is expected to issue new rules to protect more than 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from oil and gas leasing.

The restrictions, however, are unlikely to offset concerns that the $8 billion Willow project, led by oil giant ConocoPhillips, will have the potential to produce more than 600 million barrels of crude over 30 years.

Burning all that oil could release nearly 280 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. On an annual basis, that would translate into 9.2 million metric tons of carbon pollution, equal to adding nearly two million cars to the roads each year. The United States, the second biggest polluter on the planet after China, emits about 5.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story

 

The president has been lobbied fiercely by the oil industry and Alaska lawmakers to approve the Willow drilling project, which will take place inside the petroleum reserve. Other supporters, including labor unions, building trades and some residents of the North Slope, have argued that the project would create about 2,500 jobs and generate as much as $17 billion in revenue for the federal government.

At the same time, environmental activists and some Native American communities have fought the project through online campaigns, protests and meetings with federal officials, charging that approval of the project would be a betrayal of Mr. Biden’s pledge to move the nation away from fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency has said that governments must stop approving new oil, gas and coal projects if the planet is to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

Have Climate Questions? Get Answers Here.

What’s causing global warming? How can we fix it? This interactive F.A.Q. will tackle your climate questions big and small.

Representatives from ConocoPhillips said Sunday night that they haven’t yet seen a written decision and declined to comment until one had been made official.

Climate activists said that they were pleased the president plans to protect the Arctic but remained outraged that Mr. Biden, who has made fighting climate change a top priority, would approve a project they term a “carbon bomb.”

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story

 

“It’s insulting that Biden thinks this will change our minds about the Willow project,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. “Protecting one area of the Arctic so you can destroy another doesn’t make sense, and it won’t help the people and wildlife who will be upended by the Willow project.”

 

The decision is sure to invite legal challenges from environmental groups.

The Biden administration intends to approve permits for three drilling sites and deny two others, including one that would have been closest to a coastal wetland known as Teshekpuk Lake, according to two people familiar with the decision who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the announcement. The administration also will deny a road that would have led to the fourth drilling site, the two people said.

The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment on the Willow decision beyond referring to remarks by Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, on Friday that a final decision hadn’t been made.

Administration officials are moving ahead with the Willow project despite its environmental analysis raised “substantial concerns” about emissions, danger to freshwater sources and threats to migratory birds, caribou, whales and other animals that inhabit the region.

According to the two people familiar with the deliberations, the administration has concluded that it doesn’t have the legal authority to deny permits to ConocoPhillips, which has long held leases on the land in the petroleum reserve.

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story

 

ConocoPhillips had initially sought five drilling sites for the project and had called the approval of three pads the minimum number that they would find acceptable. The company had indicated that it would back out if there were fewer, saying the project would no longer be financially viable.

In addition to rejecting two of the proposed drilling sites, the people familiar with the decision said the administration also will announce that ConocoPhillips will return about 67,000 acres of land back to the government. The petroleum reserve, located about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is the country’s largest single expanse of pristine land.

The cornerstone of Mr. Biden’s new Arctic environmental pledges, which he is expected to detail on Monday, will be a declaration that the entire Arctic Ocean will be off limits to oil and gas leasing, completing an effort that began under President Barack Obama.

The Interior Department said Mr. Biden will designate about 2.8 million acres of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean near shore in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as indefinitely off limits for future oil and gas leasing. That will ensure “this important habitat for whales, seals, polar bears, as well as for subsistence purposes, will be protected in perpetuity from extractive development,” the Interior Department said in a statement.

Mr. Obama banned drilling in portions of the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, using a 1953 law that allows presidents to block the sale of offshore drilling and mining rights. President Trump later tried to open all coastal waters of the United States to oil and gas drilling, including the areas protected by the Obama administration.

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story

 

In addition to the ban on new Arctic drilling, the Interior Department will issue rules to protect more than 13 million of the 23 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from oil and gas leasing.

Mr. Biden also will announce protections for a number of sites in Alaska, including Teshekpuk Lake, Utukok Uplands, Colville River, Kasegaluk Lagoon and Peard Bay Special Areas.

Oil industry officials criticized the planned Arctic protections.

“In the current energy crisis, the Biden administration should be focused on strengthening U.S. energy security and standing with the working families of Alaska by supporting the responsible development of federal lands and waters — not acting to restrict it,” said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of policy at the American Petroleum Institute, a trade organization.

 

Yeah fuck this. This is bad.

[Voldemort86 2259]

11 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Not making me like you Joe.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arctic-drilling-restrictions.html

Administration to Approve Huge Alaska Oil Project on Monday, Two Officials Say

Biden is also expected to put broad new limits on Arctic drilling in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the $8 billion Willow oil project, which has faced sharp climate opposition.

 

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The Biden administration on Monday will formally approve a huge oil drilling project in Alaska known as Willow, according to two people familiar with the decision, despite widespread opposition because of its likely environmental and climate impacts.

The president will also impose sweeping restrictions on offshore oil leasing in the Arctic Ocean and across Alaska’s North Slope in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the Willow decision and, as one administration official put it, to form a “firewall” to limit future oil leases in the region. The Interior Department also is expected to issue new rules to protect more than 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from oil and gas leasing.

The restrictions, however, are unlikely to offset concerns that the $8 billion Willow project, led by oil giant ConocoPhillips, will have the potential to produce more than 600 million barrels of crude over 30 years.

Burning all that oil could release nearly 280 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. On an annual basis, that would translate into 9.2 million metric tons of carbon pollution, equal to adding nearly two million cars to the roads each year. The United States, the second biggest polluter on the planet after China, emits about 5.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

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The president has been lobbied fiercely by the oil industry and Alaska lawmakers to approve the Willow drilling project, which will take place inside the petroleum reserve. Other supporters, including labor unions, building trades and some residents of the North Slope, have argued that the project would create about 2,500 jobs and generate as much as $17 billion in revenue for the federal government.

At the same time, environmental activists and some Native American communities have fought the project through online campaigns, protests and meetings with federal officials, charging that approval of the project would be a betrayal of Mr. Biden’s pledge to move the nation away from fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency has said that governments must stop approving new oil, gas and coal projects if the planet is to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

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Representatives from ConocoPhillips said Sunday night that they haven’t yet seen a written decision and declined to comment until one had been made official.

Climate activists said that they were pleased the president plans to protect the Arctic but remained outraged that Mr. Biden, who has made fighting climate change a top priority, would approve a project they term a “carbon bomb.”

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“It’s insulting that Biden thinks this will change our minds about the Willow project,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. “Protecting one area of the Arctic so you can destroy another doesn’t make sense, and it won’t help the people and wildlife who will be upended by the Willow project.”

 

The decision is sure to invite legal challenges from environmental groups.

The Biden administration intends to approve permits for three drilling sites and deny two others, including one that would have been closest to a coastal wetland known as Teshekpuk Lake, according to two people familiar with the decision who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the announcement. The administration also will deny a road that would have led to the fourth drilling site, the two people said.

The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment on the Willow decision beyond referring to remarks by Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, on Friday that a final decision hadn’t been made.

Administration officials are moving ahead with the Willow project despite its environmental analysis raised “substantial concerns” about emissions, danger to freshwater sources and threats to migratory birds, caribou, whales and other animals that inhabit the region.

According to the two people familiar with the deliberations, the administration has concluded that it doesn’t have the legal authority to deny permits to ConocoPhillips, which has long held leases on the land in the petroleum reserve.

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ConocoPhillips had initially sought five drilling sites for the project and had called the approval of three pads the minimum number that they would find acceptable. The company had indicated that it would back out if there were fewer, saying the project would no longer be financially viable.

In addition to rejecting two of the proposed drilling sites, the people familiar with the decision said the administration also will announce that ConocoPhillips will return about 67,000 acres of land back to the government. The petroleum reserve, located about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is the country’s largest single expanse of pristine land.

The cornerstone of Mr. Biden’s new Arctic environmental pledges, which he is expected to detail on Monday, will be a declaration that the entire Arctic Ocean will be off limits to oil and gas leasing, completing an effort that began under President Barack Obama.

The Interior Department said Mr. Biden will designate about 2.8 million acres of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean near shore in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as indefinitely off limits for future oil and gas leasing. That will ensure “this important habitat for whales, seals, polar bears, as well as for subsistence purposes, will be protected in perpetuity from extractive development,” the Interior Department said in a statement.

Mr. Obama banned drilling in portions of the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, using a 1953 law that allows presidents to block the sale of offshore drilling and mining rights. President Trump later tried to open all coastal waters of the United States to oil and gas drilling, including the areas protected by the Obama administration.

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In addition to the ban on new Arctic drilling, the Interior Department will issue rules to protect more than 13 million of the 23 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from oil and gas leasing.

Mr. Biden also will announce protections for a number of sites in Alaska, including Teshekpuk Lake, Utukok Uplands, Colville River, Kasegaluk Lagoon and Peard Bay Special Areas.

Oil industry officials criticized the planned Arctic protections.

“In the current energy crisis, the Biden administration should be focused on strengthening U.S. energy security and standing with the working families of Alaska by supporting the responsible development of federal lands and waters — not acting to restrict it,” said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of policy at the American Petroleum Institute, a trade organization.

 

Could be a sign that the alternative / green energy push isn’t going well.

[Captainant 27442]

20 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

Could be a sign that the alternative / green energy push isn’t going well.

Or that he's being a dumbass trying to play "moderate" dem politics and make it easier for oil chuds to vote for him. Punchline is: oilmen vote republican no matter what because of culture war

Goddamnit, Joe. Drilling in Alaska is the exact opposite of what the democratic platform says it supports

[Biff Tannen 45491]

55 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Or that he's being a dumbass trying to play "moderate" dem politics and make it easier for oil chuds to vote for him. Punchline is: oilmen vote republican no matter what because of culture war

Goddamnit, Joe. Drilling in Alaska is the exact opposite of what the democratic platform says it supports

This.  This is yet another short sighted policy aimed at appeasing corporations to try to not make waves before an election.  Sigh, whatever.  We've already passed the tipping point for climate anyway, imo.  

[freyguy 4245]

Could also be another hand around Russia's throat to keep their influence on the oil market down to a minimum.

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

Must be that billboard on 35 in Georgetown what swayed him. 

[BearSchlong 8077]

Could also be another hand around Russia's throat to keep their influence on the oil market down to a minimum.

Iran, Saudi, and China’s sleepover last week didn't exactly give reason for pause either.

[TheStoicPaisano 9904]

For something light…POTUSes x wrasslin x AI art.

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33837]

is that Hoover checking out Biden's ass there?

[nbmishoid 938]

This is Brandon prepping for the general.   The Pubs can’t get to his left on climate change, and he won’t let them get to his right on the supply end of the transition project.  He’s having to break some eggs. 
When the alternative is the beginning of the Pub autocracy, ….

[Biff Tannen 45491]

2 minutes ago, nbmishoid said:

This is Brandon prepping for the general.   The Pubs can’t get to his left on climate change, and he won’t let them get to his right on the supply end of the transition project.  He’s having to break some eggs. 
When the alternative is the beginning of the Pub autocracy, ….

You could be correct.  We don't deserve a habitable environment anyway.  Mother nature is going to take us to the woodshed.

[Incredulity 11560]

8.) Martin Van Buren

 

Van Buren Boys are no joke.

 

 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

1 hour ago, nbmishoid said:

This is Brandon prepping for the general.   The Pubs can’t get to his left on climate change, and he won’t let them get to his right on the supply end of the transition project.  He’s having to break some eggs. 
When the alternative is the beginning of the Pub autocracy, ….

"The Republicans made me do bad things" is peak blue check dem.

 

[StassneyHorn 6536]

Inflation continuing to whimper as it bleeds out a lonely death. I’ll have to complain about not affording the gas in my expensive used car to eat my breakfast Crunchwrap supreme on my way to remote work elsewhere.

[henrygandorf 29174]

the biden crime family. 

[HamsterHookah 112]

On 3/12/2023 at 8:38 PM, Biff Tannen said:

Not making me like you Joe.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arctic-drilling-restrictions.html

Administration to Approve Huge Alaska Oil Project on Monday, Two Officials Say

Biden is also expected to put broad new limits on Arctic drilling in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the $8 billion Willow oil project, which has faced sharp climate opposition.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

The Biden administration on Monday will formally approve a huge oil drilling project in Alaska known as Willow, according to two people familiar with the decision, despite widespread opposition because of its likely environmental and climate impacts.

The president will also impose sweeping restrictions on offshore oil leasing in the Arctic Ocean and across Alaska’s North Slope in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the Willow decision and, as one administration official put it, to form a “firewall” to limit future oil leases in the region. The Interior Department also is expected to issue new rules to protect more than 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from oil and gas leasing.

The restrictions, however, are unlikely to offset concerns that the $8 billion Willow project, led by oil giant ConocoPhillips, will have the potential to produce more than 600 million barrels of crude over 30 years.

Burning all that oil could release nearly 280 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. On an annual basis, that would translate into 9.2 million metric tons of carbon pollution, equal to adding nearly two million cars to the roads each year. The United States, the second biggest polluter on the planet after China, emits about 5.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story

 

The president has been lobbied fiercely by the oil industry and Alaska lawmakers to approve the Willow drilling project, which will take place inside the petroleum reserve. Other supporters, including labor unions, building trades and some residents of the North Slope, have argued that the project would create about 2,500 jobs and generate as much as $17 billion in revenue for the federal government.

At the same time, environmental activists and some Native American communities have fought the project through online campaigns, protests and meetings with federal officials, charging that approval of the project would be a betrayal of Mr. Biden’s pledge to move the nation away from fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency has said that governments must stop approving new oil, gas and coal projects if the planet is to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.

Have Climate Questions? Get Answers Here.

What’s causing global warming? How can we fix it? This interactive F.A.Q. will tackle your climate questions big and small.

Representatives from ConocoPhillips said Sunday night that they haven’t yet seen a written decision and declined to comment until one had been made official.

Climate activists said that they were pleased the president plans to protect the Arctic but remained outraged that Mr. Biden, who has made fighting climate change a top priority, would approve a project they term a “carbon bomb.”

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story

 

“It’s insulting that Biden thinks this will change our minds about the Willow project,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. “Protecting one area of the Arctic so you can destroy another doesn’t make sense, and it won’t help the people and wildlife who will be upended by the Willow project.”

 

The decision is sure to invite legal challenges from environmental groups.

The Biden administration intends to approve permits for three drilling sites and deny two others, including one that would have been closest to a coastal wetland known as Teshekpuk Lake, according to two people familiar with the decision who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the announcement. The administration also will deny a road that would have led to the fourth drilling site, the two people said.

The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment on the Willow decision beyond referring to remarks by Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, on Friday that a final decision hadn’t been made.

Administration officials are moving ahead with the Willow project despite its environmental analysis raised “substantial concerns” about emissions, danger to freshwater sources and threats to migratory birds, caribou, whales and other animals that inhabit the region.

According to the two people familiar with the deliberations, the administration has concluded that it doesn’t have the legal authority to deny permits to ConocoPhillips, which has long held leases on the land in the petroleum reserve.

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story

 

ConocoPhillips had initially sought five drilling sites for the project and had called the approval of three pads the minimum number that they would find acceptable. The company had indicated that it would back out if there were fewer, saying the project would no longer be financially viable.

In addition to rejecting two of the proposed drilling sites, the people familiar with the decision said the administration also will announce that ConocoPhillips will return about 67,000 acres of land back to the government. The petroleum reserve, located about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is the country’s largest single expanse of pristine land.

The cornerstone of Mr. Biden’s new Arctic environmental pledges, which he is expected to detail on Monday, will be a declaration that the entire Arctic Ocean will be off limits to oil and gas leasing, completing an effort that began under President Barack Obama.

The Interior Department said Mr. Biden will designate about 2.8 million acres of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean near shore in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as indefinitely off limits for future oil and gas leasing. That will ensure “this important habitat for whales, seals, polar bears, as well as for subsistence purposes, will be protected in perpetuity from extractive development,” the Interior Department said in a statement.

Mr. Obama banned drilling in portions of the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, using a 1953 law that allows presidents to block the sale of offshore drilling and mining rights. President Trump later tried to open all coastal waters of the United States to oil and gas drilling, including the areas protected by the Obama administration.

ADVERTISEMENT

Continue reading the main story

 

In addition to the ban on new Arctic drilling, the Interior Department will issue rules to protect more than 13 million of the 23 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska from oil and gas leasing.

Mr. Biden also will announce protections for a number of sites in Alaska, including Teshekpuk Lake, Utukok Uplands, Colville River, Kasegaluk Lagoon and Peard Bay Special Areas.

Oil industry officials criticized the planned Arctic protections.

“In the current energy crisis, the Biden administration should be focused on strengthening U.S. energy security and standing with the working families of Alaska by supporting the responsible development of federal lands and waters — not acting to restrict it,” said Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of policy at the American Petroleum Institute, a trade organization.

 

President Biden approved the controversial Willow oil project for the Alaskan Arctic yesterday. That means oil company ConocoPhillips can drill on some of the US’s last unspoiled wilderness, where it’ll extract an estimated 576 million barrels of oil over the next 30 years.

Environmentalists oppose the drilling, calling the approval a severe setback for Biden’s goal of cutting CO2 emissions in half by 2030. And they’ve got support: More than 1 million protest letters have been sent to the White House, a Change.org petition has 3.2 million signatures, and the #StopWillow hashtag on TikTok has over 180 million views.

But Alaska lawmakers, oil industry groups, and some Native groups welcome the Willow oil project for the revenue and jobs it could create.

Biden *tried* to please everyone

The final project scales back ConocoPhillips’s original proposal by about 68,000 acres, only allowing three out of five requested drilling “pads,” or sites where a rig is set up.

Biden also threw in some environmental consolation gifts: He banned all drilling in the Arctic Ocean and added protections for 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. But Jamal Raad, co-founder of the climate group Evergreen Action, called these measures “lipstick on a pig.”

Looking ahead…environmental groups plan to oppose the project in court.

[RDCanecutter 26249]

On 3/9/2023 at 1:21 PM, CooterBrown said:

The Russian bot farms are getting paid handsomely. Every single dem tweet is now 99% MAGA replies.

If your choices were working in a bot farm, or joining the assault infantry in Vuhledar, you'd tweet, tweet, tweet like the wind.

[Biff Tannen 45491]

8 hours ago, HamsterHookah said:

Biden also threw in some environmental consolation gifts: He banned all drilling in the Arctic Ocean and added protections for 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

Awesome.  I'm sure when the Rs get back in power they totally won't roll that back.  We're good.