No one credible disputes Sarah Palin’s expertise on energy. This woman knows
what she is talking about here. The radical left has a diabolical scheme, but
it has little to do with a clean environment, and a lot to do with destroying
America, and lining it’s pockets in the process.

Sarah speaks:

Extreme Enviros: Drill, Baby, Drill in ANWR – Now Do You Get It?

This is a message to extreme “environmentalists” who hypocritically
protest domestic energy production offshore and onshore. There is nothing “clean
and green” about your efforts. Look, here’s the deal: when you lock up our
land, you outsource jobs and opportunity away from America and into foreign countries
that are making us beholden to them. Some of these countries don’t like
America. Some of these countries don’t care for planet earth like we do – as
evidenced by our stricter environmental standards.

With your nonsensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you’re
doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by
foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet. Your
hypocrisy is showing. You’re not preventing environmental hazards; you’re outsourcing
them and making drilling more dangerous.

Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our
country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore
and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It’s catching up with
you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

We need permission to drill in safer areas, including the uninhabited arctic
land of ANWR. It takes just a tiny footprint – equivalent to the size of LA’s
airport – to tap America’s rich and plentiful oil and gas up north. ANWR’s
drilling footprint is like a postage stamp on a football field.

But it’s not just ANWR; it’s our Petroleum Reserve, too. As Governor Sean
Parnell noted today in the Wall
Street Journal:

“Federal agencies are also now blocking oil development in the National
Petroleum Reserve—Alaska.


Although familiar with ANWR, most Americans are less likely to know about
NPR-A and how vital it is to our energy security. Given recent developments,
it’s time to elevate the position this area holds in our national discourse.


NPR-A, a 23 million acre stretch of Alaska’s North Slope, was set aside by
President Warren Harding in 1923 for the specific purpose of supplying our
country and military with oil and gas. Since 1976 it has been administered by
the Department of the Interior, and since 1980 it has been theoretically open
for development. The most recent estimates indicate that it holds 12 billion
barrels of oil and 73 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.


In addition to containing enormous hydrocarbons, NPR-A is very close to the
Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which means that there would be relatively little
additional infrastructure needed to bring this new oil to our domestic market.


But even here, progress has been stalled.”

Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to
lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your
misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question
your true motives.

- Sarah Palin

There is more to Governor Parnell’s op-ed:

For more than five years, the state of Alaska has worked closely with major
energy companies, local communities and Alaska Native corporations and tribes
on a balanced development plan. To back this project, these entities have
formed a rare coalition and made significant compromises, often at the behest
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to clear regulatory hurdles for
development on a site in NPR-A known as CD-5.

But this February the Corps reversed course and denied the issuance of a
critical permit for CD-5. Specifically, the Corps denied ConocoPhillips’s
request to build a bridge over a river to accommodate a pipeline and vehicles
that can access the company’s existing production facilities at the nearby
Alpine field. The Corps decreed that the bridge shouldn’t be built and that the
pipeline should proceed under water, a course of action that would
significantly undermine the economics of the project while posing a greater
risk to the environment.

Alaska stands ready to help move the nation closer to energy independence,
and it’s a shame that the federal government is standing in the way. The
Corps’s own regulations emphasize that state and local governments have primary
responsibility for land-use decisions and that their views should be given due
consideration. But not only has the Corps rejected a critical permit, it did so
without consideration of our concerns—on the overly technical grounds that the
state’s comments were not made under my signature and that my oral comments to
Corps officials were not in writing.

After years of cooperatively trying to move this critical NPR-A project
forward, such a backhanded dismissal of a state’s position is troubling enough.
But what we really fear is that this is part of a much broader agenda at play
(directed by the antidevelopment Environmental Protection Agency) to shut down
increased domestic oil and gas production even in places like the NPR-A. As
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski stated in a recent address to our legislature, “For
heaven’s sakes, if we can’t drill in the National Petroleum Reserve—an area
specifically designated by Congress for oil and gas production—where can we
drill?”

The state of Alaska is seeking to join an administrative appeal of this
misguided federal decision. If we are not satisfied with the outcome of this
proceeding, we will pursue other means, including suing the federal government
to ensure that it abides by its own regulations and does not make arbitrary and
capricious decisions at the expense of state sovereignty and wise energy
policy.

America, particularly in Alaska, has vast reserves of onshore and offshore
oil and gas. The crisis in the Gulf should not be used to implement a misguided
strategy that shuts down the opportunities to develop these resources and that
further endangers our nation’s long-term energy security.

I for one am glad to see Sarah come out swinging here. The radical
Marxist-progressives hijacked the so-called “green movement” decades
ago, and are using it as nothing more than a vehicle to impose a communist
style government both in America, and world wide. These people are evil,
nothing more and nothing less.

There are several masters being served here by the Obama regime, and it’s
disciples. First, there is the money, lots of money. The Obama regime, using
the tenets of radical environmentalism, .which is based on a hoax, (global
warming) to set up a cap and trade system that will see Obama, Al Gore, and
many others rake in tens of trillions of dollars from people who are forced to
purchase “carbon credits” through the Chicago Climate Exchange, which
was created by Obama, and has among others, Al Gore, and elements of Goldman
Sachs as partners. You can read more on The Greatest Swindle In Human
History here
and here.

One thing we must also never forget, while Obama and his people are doing everything
they can to shut down all energy production in America, last year, Barack Obama
loaned Brazil $15 billion in order to drill off it’s own coast. How does that
square with the Obama regime’s cries for a “cleaner planet“? Anyone
really think Brazil would be more diligent than America on environmental
safety?

The real story here is the fact that three days before Obama gave Brazil the
$15 billion tax payer dollars, his real boss, former Nazi sympathizer George
Soros, purchased controlling interest in Petrobas, the Brazilian oil giant that
will be using this gift of our money. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure
out who stands to make an obscene amount of money if America is no longer
producing oil.

Soros is one of the most evil men on the planet, and owns the
Marxist-democrat party lock, stock and barrel. He funds hundreds of
Marxist-democrat party organizations. It stands to reason they will help him
add even more wealth to his bank account, since his groups are responsible for
keeping the most corrupt President and the most corrupt political party in our
nation’s history afloat.

David Horowitz’s Discover The Networks has a profile on Soros here.

So far, all we are seeing is massive corruption, and a cap and tax scheme
that is so evil that Bernie Madoff would cry foul. All of this manipulation by
the Obama regime, and the pushing of a proven hoax (global warming) is nothing
more than a high end, Chicago Gangland Shakedown, on a global scale.

For their part, the radical Marxists will get to witness the complete and
total destruction of America, as well as the greatest redistribution of wealth
in history.

The real losers in all of this, are the poor misguided fools who actually
care about the planet, and want to see it cared for responsibly. Absolutely
nothing in Obama’s “green agenda” has to do with making the planet
cleaner. The only green Obama and his fellow travelers care about is the kind
of green that has dead presidents on the front.

Unfortunately, the people who may actually care about the planet, have been
indoctrinated in radical environmentalism and Marxist ideology for a
generation. They have been taught to be closed minded and to have complete
hatred for anything and everything that doesn’t fit the narrative. This is
quite tragic, because there are people, who aren’t radical Marxists, that have
the knowledge and skill to not only satisfy America’s need for energy, clean,
inexpensive energy, that fuels our entire economy, but have a genuine love for
our planet, and will go out of their way to do it right. They just aren’t
devout followers of Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky.

Sarah Palin is one of those people. She knows the oil and gas business as
well as anyone out there. She worked to hold big oil accountable, and reform
the system in Alaska. Sarah has first hand knowledge of what a disaster like
the Gulf oil spill will do. As Governor, Sarah created an agency that was
responsible for holding Big Oil responsible, and coming down hard when they
weren’t. More importantly, she kept an eye on this commission, to make sure
they did their job. It’s what a good CEO does.

It’s ridiculous and quite dangerous for us to be drilling for oil so far off
shore. Drilling in mile deep water isn’t just asking for trouble, it’s begging
for it. If we were in shallower water, closer to land, this problem could have
been more easily gotten under control, but the extreme depths radical
environmentalists, and greedy, corrupt politicians have forced upon America,
are the culprit here.

Radical environmentalists loose heir mind when the talks turn to ANWR. Their
media partners always aid them by running stories showing majestic eagles
flying, polar bears looking all cuddly, and lush, green land. Now that may
indeed represent some part of ANWR, but not where the oil is. Not where people
want to drill.

ANWR is roughly the size of the state of South Carolina. As Sarah points
out, the spot where the oil is, is about the size of the Los Angeles
International Airport. If you’re a Texan, think D-FW. International Airport. It
truly is like comparing the size of a postage stamp, to the size of a football
field.

Also, the spot where the oil and natural gas are, is not all that nice. In
the winter, it’s frozen tundra, that is barely inhabitable, and in the summer
the most endearing features are the black flies and mosquitoes the size of a
small bird! If you look on the map, there are already energy producing fields
very close to this area.

I remember when I was younger, the radical environmentalists lost their
minds when planning for the Trans-Alaska pipeline was underway. The outrageous
claims of devastation and destruction were just as over the top as what we see
today.

Oh the caribou!

My goodness this was going to destroy the caribou. Now mind you, most
Alaskan’s rely heavily on caribou and other game for their very survival. As
Sarah puts it, “I eat, therefore I hunt.” This is very much the way of life in
Alaska. Alaskan’s aren’t going to destroy their food supply.

Long story short, as always, the environmental moonbats were wrong. It seems
that the oil that comes through the pipeline is warm, even when the outside
temps are well below zero. Caribou love the warmth. It also makes the caribou,
and other game rather romantic. Instead of making the caribou extinct, these
buggers multiplied like rabbits! So much for the wisdom of radical
environmentalism.

Several things need to happen here. One, we need competent leadership, from
people that actually have an understanding of how stuff works. We need someone
who is honest, and incorruptible. That of course, would be Sarah Palin, and
those like her.

We also must start investigating the massive lies and corruption that
surround the so-called “green movement” as well as all of those involved
with the Obama regime. Someone must have the guts to go after Obama, and all of
the members of Crime, Inc. We also need someone with the guts to go after George
Soros, and take this guy down. He is pure evil, and funds pure evil worldwide.

The Marxist-democrats like Obama love to shout from the rooftops how evil
capitalism is, and how we need “social and economic justice” to “make
things right“, but under the shadow of darkness, these evil men work and
scheme to find the best way to steal America, and the world, blind, making
themselves rich beyond all imagination. In the end, all Obama and his fellow
travelers really are, are just common criminals.

It’s the Chicago way.

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