Friday, January 31, 2014

Chronology of how we got into a place where the clmate doesn't matter.

It is a planned assault against the climate to disregard any science. Previous to Bush Executive Order 11423 stood as law from 1968.

- Inauguration January 20, 2001

- National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG), was a task force created by then-U.S. President George W. Bush in 2001 during his second week in office. Vice President Dick Cheney was named chairman.

- National Energy Policy, May 2001

-Executive Order 13212, May 18, 2001 (click here)

Actions To Expedite Energy-Related Projects
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to take additional steps to expedite the increased supply and availability of energy to our Nation, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Sec. 1. Policy.
The increased production and transmission of energy in a safe and environmentally sound manner is essential to the well-being of the American people. In general, it is the policy of this Administration that executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall take appropriate actions, to the extent consistent with applicable law, to expedite projects that will increase the production, transmission, or conservation of energy....

Environmentally sound manner doesn't matter if the definition according to the National Energy Policy dummies it down. We know it did exactly that because of the fracking laws

- Executive Order 13337 (click here): - April 30, 2004 - Issuance of Permits With Respect to Certain Energy-Related Facilities and Land Transportation Crossings on the International Boundaries of the United States

This is the same stupid law the current assessment was carried out with. There are other executive orders listed within it.

- Executive Order 10530 (click here) --Providing for the performance of certain functions vested in or subject to the approval of the President

Source: The provisions of Executive Order 10530 of May 10, 1954, appear at 19 FR 2709, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 189, unless otherwise noted....

...Sec. 6. The Attorney General and the Archivist of the United States are hereby designated and empowered jointly to perform the following-described functions without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President:

(a) The authority vested in the President by section 5(a) of the act of July 26, 1935, ch. 417, 49 Stat. 501, as amended (44 U.S.C. 1505(a)), to determine from time to time the documents or classes of documents having general applicability and legal effect....


I realize some of the language is about procedural processes, but, I think that exactly the problem. The Executive Orders have been left to fester in old paradigms of government without bring current climate conditions to impact any permitting.

Besides ridiculing the assessment, there is significant reasons to assault the very law that provides for the permits. The permitting processes have NOT kept up with changing climate conditions that imperil the lives of USA citizens and the future of our children.

Executive Order 10485 (click here) --Providing for the performance of certain functions heretofore performed by the President with respect to electric power and natural gas facilities located on the borders of the United States
Source: The provisions of Executive Order 10485 of Sept. 3, 1953, appear at 18 FR 5397, 3 CFR, 1949-1953 Comp., p. 970, unless otherwise noted.
WHEREAS section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act, as amended, 49 Stat. 847 (16 U.S.C. 824a(e)), requires any person desiring to transmit any electric energy from the United States to a foreign country to obtain an order of the Federal Power Commission1 authorizing it to do so; and
WHEREAS section 3 of the Natural Gas Act, (click here) 52 Stat. 822 (15 U.S.C. 717b), requires any person desiring to export any natural gas from the United States to a foreign country or to import any natural gas from a foreign country to the United States to obtain an order from the Federal Power Commission authorizing it to do so; and
WHEREAS the proper conduct of the foreign relations of the United States requires that executive permission be obtained for the construction and maintenance at the borders of the United States of facilities for the exportation or importation of electric energy and natural gas; and...