Trump issues EO: DECLARING A NATIONAL ENERGY EMERGENCY –

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1. I’m an environmental consultant for one of the largest energy suppliers in the country. I’m shook. This EO encourages directors of federal agencies to use any “Emergency” means available to avoid the biological, cultural, and water reviews required for energy suppliers. Many federal agencies we deal with during this pre-construction review process have recently lost their probationary employees. Their directors may not want to avoid environmental reviews of energy projects, but will be pushed towards doing so because they won’t have the staff to perform these reviews. Energy projects can be huge and highly impactful to our natural resources.

   Some sections that jumped out at me:

   * Sec. 3. Expediting the Delivery of Energy Infrastructure*.*  (a)   To facilitate the Nation’s energy supply, agencies shall identify and use all relevant lawful emergency and other authorities available to them to expedite the completion of all authorized and appropriated infrastructure, energy, environmental, and natural resources projects that are within the identified authority of each of the Secretaries to perform or to advance.
   * (b)  To protect the collective national and economic security of the United States, agencies shall identify and use all lawful emergency or other authorities available to them to facilitate the supply, refining, and transportation of energy in and through the West Coast of the United States, Northeast of the United States, and Alaska.
   * section 5.b  Agencies are directed to use, to the maximum extent permissible under applicable law, the ESA regulation on consultations in emergencies, to facilitate the Nation’s energy supply.

2. That mother fucker truly has it out for solar and wind, doesn’t he? Hydro barely squeaks in, but why? Hatred of free flowing water as dammed by Older Money established interests?

   > (a) The term “energy” or “energy resources” means crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals, as defined by 30 U.S.C. 1606 (a)(3).

   > (b) The term “production” means the extraction or creation of energy.

   > (c) The term “transportation” means the physical movement of energy, including through, but not limited to, pipelines.

   > (d) The term “refining” means the physical or chemical change of energy into a form that can be used by consumers or users, including, but not limited to, the creation of gasoline, diesel, ethanol, aviation fuel, or the beneficiation, enrichment, or purification of minerals.

   > (e) The term “generation” means the use of energy to produce electricity or thermal power and the transmission of electricity from its site of generation.

   > (f) The term “energy supply” means the production, transportation, refining, and generation of energy.

3. Declaring a non-emergency emergency to pillage the environment and destroy nature forever. Accelerationalist fools.

4. So basically open up public lands (like national parks and forests) for mining resources, coal, oil, natural gas and geothermal? While blaming the previous administration for wish wash. Did I read it right? No mention of wind or solar of course.

5. If it’s such an emergency why does he keep approving export terminals?

6. I bet we will see oil wells in Theodore Roosevelt NP in the next 12 months. The enire nothern unit is surrounded by flares already.

7. Does this surprise anybody? If they’re going to cut off natural resources from Canada, where did you think they were going to get them from?

   Trump is going to turn the U.S. into Mordor.

8. Translation: DRILL BABY DRILL, SCREW THE ENVIRONMENT

9. 30 days to predict the impact of undefined carbon fuel expansion and create possible protection plans is insane.

10. I guess I’m going to become an extreme environmental activist, time to start blowing Pipelines

11. Thats the point about the PNW and California. These emergency measures force approval if export terminal like Cherry Point in Washington.

12. >These numerous problems are most pronounced in our Nation’s **Northeast** and **West Coast**, where dangerous State and local policies jeopardize our Nation’s core national defense and security needs, and devastate the prosperity of not only local residents but the entire United States population.  The United States’ insufficient energy production, transportation, refining, and generation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to our Nation’s economy, national security, and foreign policy.  In light of these findings, I hereby declare a national emergency.

    Ah, we’re being declared “the enemy” for demonization.

    I know nobody is ready, but do your best to get ready for what’s coming folks.

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