Big Oil Asks US Supreme Court to Reinstate Offshore Fracking in California
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Big Oil Asks US Supreme Court to Reinstate Offshore Fracking in California
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One day, maybe the ICC will hear cases against big oil for crimes against humanity and the environment.
>The American Petroleum Institute and a pair of oil companies filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday in a bid to overturn a lower federal court ruling that blocked fracking in public waters off California’s coast.
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>CBD and the Wishtoyo Foundation sued the Trump administration to stop offshore fracking in 2016. Then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a similar case.
>In 2018, U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez ordered a prohibition on permits for offshore fracking in federal waters off California, ruling that the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) had failed to adhere to multiple federal laws.
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Which companies qualify as “small oil”?
Fracking in the water, Jesus.
Fuck no. Don’t give them an inch.
At what point do we start weighing the cost of direct action against the future of the planet? Why aren’t people tracking down oil executives and their lobbyists and making their lives miserable?
The 6 Conservative Justices, “Say Less.”
Why the fuck is the Supreme Court involved in this at all. They are not qualified to even look at it. Let the scientists who study this actually make the decision.
This shit sucks.
Not sure how this is a federal issue
The only reason this is being brought to the SCOTUS is their belief in the conservative, probusiness court jesters will grant them the win.
Welcome to the Corporate States of America.
No
Once every oil spill is completly cleaned up, and price adjusted to actual environmental cost, we can talk about it again, should there still be an interest, which there will not.
How about they fuck off and die? We do not need more fracking, fuck them.
Have the big oil taken a loss of their senses… Don’t they get that all the money in the world can’t buy them a ticket out of the fucking consequences of their useless actions!!
That’s Trump Supreme Court. Time for it to get abolished, Supreme law of the land, this court is a spit on the face of their predecessors. Where law was scrutinized without prejudice. Now it’s a network of self
Interest and corruption at its highest level.
Yeah we totally want more earthquakes in CA. /s
Let’s go to a state that already has high and dangerous seismicity and frack it up!
Why stop the destruction at Oklahoma?
I ask the supreme court top get rid of big oil.
Grim future.
Keep your fucking hands off of California
I can’t wait until the States Rights crowd weighs in
Fuck Big Oil
States rights! Until it’s something we want. New hybrid plug ins can get 120 MPG so even if your not ready to 100% EV we can still do better
Hell yes no more oil and gas or petroleum based products for California!
Ah yes fracking near the most active fault zones in North America, what could possibly go wring?
Fracking? Give me a fucking break.
Yes we need gas but shit if they go an inch they might just upon a gate to hell lol and suddenly earth is crumbling lol
And my guess is they will do it.
States rights! States rights!….
unless I don’t like what the state is doing.
Also,
Small Federal government! Small Federal government…
Unless i don’t like what the state is doing
No!!! What the hell is wrong with these bastards?
Looking forward to Republicans to start yelling “States’ Rights!” /s
The oil and gas industry may have argued that the regulations imposed by California state regulators are overly restrictive and impede their ability to extract resources from the state’s offshore waters, while the regulators may have argued that the regulations are necessary to protect the environment and public health. The Supreme Court will likely be asked to determine whether the regulations are constitutional and whether they are reasonable and consistent with federal law.
Oh hell no!
Oh goodie. Gonna keep needing a bigger straw to comllerley kill this solar battery we call the carbon pulse that was trickle charged over millions of years and drained in a couple centuries. Fuel efficient EVs are great but ffs we gotta figure out something other than Jevon’s paradox hamstrung efficiency narratives to wean us off the hydrocarbon crack.
Do you want earthquakes? Cos that’s how you get earthquakes.
On Wednesday, the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon Mobil Corp. and DCOR LLC filed a petition for justices to reverse a 2022 ruling from a lower bench that upheld a ban on all new permits for unconventional oil production methods on the Pacific outer continental shelf.
Wow, here we are in 2023, scientists all over the world are sounding the alarm that CO2 is literally creating an existential crisis for humanity and the rest of living creatures on the planet and these mf’ers have the BALLS to ask the Supreme Court to allow them to pillage our natural resources and privatize the profits and further lead us down a shit hole toward global catastrophe.
Come on everyone! All together! Boooo hisssss
Are we seriously going to repeat the same mistakes? Yeah let’s introduce more possible oil spills and erosion into the ocean…what could go wrong
If the fully compromised illegitimate court rules in big oils favor, California should just disregard it and continue to not allow them to do anything off shore.
Fossil fuels are so evil. Why do we even need this? Don’t we already have enough oil?? Better yet just buy an electric car and you won’t need oil