Bush Bureau Of Land Management Abused Legal Exceptions To Benefit Big Oil And Gas: GOA

The Colorado Independent:

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 rather famously - or infamously, depending on your point of view - allowed for a Safe Drinking Water Act exemption for the Haliburton-perfected process of hydraulic fracturing in of natural gas wells.

But, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report issued today, the act also sought to pick up the pace of natural gas exploration and production by allowing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to use "categorical exclusions" when issuing oil and gas drilling permits.

Read the whole story: The Colorado Independent

Comments

[zombywulf]

Now you know where that oily film in your sink is coming from and what that funny taste is in your water, Thank you Dickey boy Cheney, head clown of the Halliburton/KBR circus

[HowdyDoody]

Gale Norton was corrupt from birth. I sincerely hope she winds up in the slammer for good.

[kareemachan]

Seconded.

[Mark Twaine]

What is the news?

We already knew K Street money rules the country.