EPA Official with "Crucify comment" Resigns

[tinydancer]

I'm trying to get a link to put up but it's being reported that the resignation has happened.

OK got one. Don't nuke me because it's Newsmax. It's an AP story.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/EPA-Resignation/2012/04/30/id/437515?s=al&promo_code=EC81-1


Top EPA Official Resigns over 'Crucify' Comment

Monday, 30 Apr 2012 12:43 PM

The Obama administration's top environmental official in the oil-rich South and Southwest region has resigned after Republicans targeted him over remarks made two years ago when he used the word "crucify" to describe his approach to enforcement.

In a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson sent Sunday, Al Armendariz says he regrets his words and stresses that they do not reflect his work as administrator of the five-state region including Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Republicans in Congress had called for Armendariz' firing, after Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe highlighted the May 2010 speech last week as proof of what he refers to as EPA's assault on energy, particularly the technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

 

[SniperFire]

Not like you can find the articles on this in the MSM.

Imagine if a Bush Admin. official had said something similar regarding a welfare program provider.

 

[waltky]

Vermont bans fracking...

Vermont becomes first state to ban fracking
May 17, 2012 – Vermont became the first state to ban the controversial natural gas drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the ban into law Wednesday afternoon, The Burlington Free Press reported. However, the law will have no immediate effect -- Vermont does not have any drilling projects underway, and there is no information to suggest that the state has underground gas reserves that could be tapped by fracking.

But Shumlin noted that "we don't know that we don't have natural gas in Vermont" and said the measure "will ensure we do not inject chemicals into groundwater in a desperate pursuit for energy." "One of the biggest challenges that future generations are going to face is clean, drinkable water," he added. "We have an abundance of it in Vermont. I think it's a great message that we're going to protect it at all costs."

The Vermont law also bans the importation and storage of wastewater associated with fracking. The drilling tactic involves the high-pressure injection of a mixture of water and chemicals deep underground to blast apart shale rock to release natural gas.

Opponents say fracking has contaminated groundwater and triggered earthquakes, though the energy industry maintains that environmental concerns have not been scientifically proven and that tapping shale gas reserves is critical to national energy security.

The American Petroleum Institute also wrote to Shumlin last week, saying that the bill may be subject to constitutional challenge. New York currently has a moratorium on fracking, which environmental groups have lobbied Gov. Andrew Cuomo to turn into a statewide ban.

Read more: Vermont becomes first state to ban fracking | Fox News

 

[JoeB131]

i guess I am having a hard problem with what this guy did wrong.

Republicans are all for crucifying poor people to discourage them from committing crimes.

This guy was suggesting crucifying rich people when the commit crimes to discourage other companies from doing it.

Obeying the law is for Poor People.

 

[Mad Scientist]

The guy will be immediately replaced with someone who thinks the exact same way but will remain silent about it.

 

[JoeB131]

The guy will be immediately replaced with someone who thinks the exact same way but will remain silent about it.

We can only hope.

I'm not sure why you want someone who will let people poison the water and get away with it...

I like drinking clean water, don't you?

 

[Ragnar]

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