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Trump’s Advisers Draft First-Day Energy Policy Changes

Aides to Donald Trump have drafted a list of environmental policy and energy-related changes that he could sign within hours after he is sworn in as U.S. President on Friday, Bloomberg reports, quoting two people familiar with the transition team’s plans.

The list of immediate energy policy changes reportedly includes measures to rescind Obama’s orders that federal agencies take into account climate change when they give the go-ahead to pipelines or decide which areas should be open for drilling, Bloomberg sources say.

In addition, Trump’s advisers are said to be targeting the social cost of carbon and are proposing to suspend the use of that metric until reviewed and recalculated.

The transition team is also advising Trump to rescind an executive order from 1968 that gave the power to the State Department to determine if a cross-border pipeline and other energy projects serve the national interest, Bloomberg reports. It was that order that allowed the State Department to review the Keystone XL pipeline proposed by TransCanada and ultimately rejected by the Obama administration.

A day after Trump was elected U.S. President, TransCanada issued a statement, telegraphing its interest in reviving the defunct Keystone XL Pipeline, which would take Alberta tar sands to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

“TransCanada remains fully committed to building Keystone XL,” spokesman Mark Cooper said in the post-election statement. “We are evaluating ways to engage the new administration on the benefits, the jobs and the tax revenues this project brings to the table.”

Last month, a leaked memo showed some details on the priorities for the Trump administration, and they would mark a huge departure from the Obama era and upend longstanding U.S. energy policy if implemented.

Some of the items are predictable given Trump’s clear position on supporting oil and gas drilling and his opposition to efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For example, the memo says that Trump will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, “hit the reset” on the Clean Power Plan, and increase leasing for oil and gas drilling on public lands.

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

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14 Comments on "Trump’s Advisers Draft First-Day Energy Policy Changes"

joe on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 12:56 pm

Thankfully he also killed TTIP, as Noam Chomsky called it less a trade deal than an investor rights treaty which the left was opposed to, but nobody thanks him FOR THAT. As for climate change, I dont think it matters much now if we pump more oil or not. Most data seem to exceed rather than match predictions. Right now we have Larsen C breaking off the Antartic ice shelf and EVERY year breaks global temperature records. We can either pump no more oil, or pump it all but the outcome will be the same, the end of our easy life.

Apneaman on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 1:16 pm

For some time there have been cry’s of “we’re doomed” because Cheeto won. Bullshit. I have taken many liberals to task on that over the last few months, but it’s as pointless an exercise as debating deniers. You’re already doomed. Cheeto and his cancer crew and their policies can make things a lot worse for Americans in the short term though. Not going to make much big picture difference for AGW. The difference for Americans will be that why should we spend a dime of your tax dollars protecting you, your kids and grand kids from AGW consequences when it is just a Chinese hoax? You on your own 100% and that denial may cost you and your loved ones much suffering and years off your lives. Cheeto gonna help speed things along.

Here is another reason why it

US to experience ‘dangerous’ global warming up to 20 years before most of the rest of the world
The heavily populated northeast will hit 3C of warming when the world average is at 2C, models predict

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/us-dangerous-global-warming-climate-change-20-years-two-decades-before-rest-of-the-world-environment-a7535681.html

Anyone paying attention knows that America is already getting hammered more and worse than most places. Out of the 30 billion dollar plus climate disasters in 2016, 15 of them were in the US and they are not including AGW jacked wildfires like Gatlinburg burning down or 2015’s most costly US wildfire season.

A Swarm of 30 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Socked the Planet in 2016

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/a-swarm-of-30-billiondollar-weather-disasters-socked-the-planet-in-20

2016 Was Second Hottest Year on Record in U.S., With 15 ‘Billion-Dollar’ Weather Disasters

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/2016-was-second-hottest-year-record-u-s-15-billion-n705281

One good thing about the computer age is that, if one is so inclined, they can solve all their problems simply by using the “delete” key.

All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted From the White House Website

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-references-to-climate-change-have-been-deleted-from-the-white-house-website

Leadership.

tk on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 1:50 pm

@ Apnea

That “delete”-key would be the “red button” …

BobInget on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 1:51 pm

Only higher prices will increase production.
(for a few more years)

What US O&G industry needs is more regulation .
See ‘Texas RR Commission’
http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/

As for higher prices, hold on to your hats.
HP’s are coming, big time.

It’s big mouth that needs regulation. One of the Administration adults should put a one hour delay on Tweets.

Our Commander in Chief is bound to offend (deserved or not) America’s MidEast crude suppliers. As it happens most ME suppliers are a thin-skinned as our Tweeter in charge.
What could possible go wrong ?

For instance…

Watch for Iraq to file a a thousand law suits
for wrongful invasion etc. Unlike law professor Obama who never open us up to this sort of litigation, President Twitter has in dozens of
public speeches.

tk on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 2:06 pm

Saudi is about to implode…
The profit margin of oil companies and energy
companies is NEGATIVE for at least two years
by now…

The point Mike Ruppert warned about is imminent:

The global banking system will evaporate overnight and oil flow stops.

We are collectively, as species already
“past dead”.

joe on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 2:31 pm

Trump is cutting out the middle man. Lobbyists better watch out. The left is yelping in pain right now, their rule by committee and politics of identity is finished. A generation of graduates flipping burgers proud of ‘who’ they are. What a load of brainwashed propaganda. Obamas legacy is vision of whites being brought down to a level equal to minorities rather than lifting minorities up. We build society on Plato, Socrates, and the dreams of ancient Greece and Rome fitting in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Now we are to forget that vision of order and embrace the a-moral world of the self and accept the religion of free market capitalism. Meanwhile we are supposed to forget Soros and Kochs who own half the earth and are greedy for the rest. What a scam they are running.

Midnight Oil on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 6:22 pm

What was it that Dr James Hansen told Bill McKibben if the Tar Sands and pipeline were
put in place? “Forgetaboutit”,…the climate that supports our civilization that is!
We are sooo fcked.

Apneaman on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 6:54 pm

Oh look, the Chinese, who took “your jobs” (a communist notion if there ever was one) have given “your jobs” to robots.

Chinese Factory Replaces 90% Of Human Workers With Robots, Sees 250% Production Increase

http://monetarywatch.com/2017/01/chinese-factory-replaces-90-human-workers-robots-sees-250-production-increase/?doing_wp_cron=1484942344.6884350776672363281250

No worries, big daddy Cheeto is on it.

Davy on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 7:21 pm

It was 65 today on the farm. Bees and bugs were flying around. It January not March.
“NASA Data Shows the Rate of Global Warming is Accelerating — 2016 is Third Consecutive Hottest Year on Record”
https://robertscribbler.com/
“During 2016, according to NASA, global temperatures hit 1.21 C above 1880s averages. This is a new record high to shatter all previous heat records. More to the point, the world’s atmosphere and oceans are now hotter than they’ve been in at least the past 100,000 years. This is considerable global warming. Enough to tip the world into a new climate age and bring about substantial geophysical changes.”

Sissyfuss on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 10:55 pm

Joe,many brilliant minds have been saying for years,”choose between a healthy economy or a healthy environment because you can’t have both”.

rockman on Sun, 22nd Jan 2017 8:23 am

Sissy – So true. Really it has always been more of an ACCEPTABLE economy and an ACCEPTABLE environment. And while many will give lip service to environmental issues taking precedence over economic issues it usually targets someone else’s economy and not their own. Even our greenest cohorts here still benefit from fossil fuel consumptions to some degree despite their best intentions. Much less then most but they still have a GHG footprint.

To expect the vast majority of the world to put environmental interests above their personal interest is ridiculous. The goal should always be finding away to minimize those negative effects. Arguing about goals to completely eliminate them just “wastes energy” IMHO.

Yes: intentional irony. LOL.

BobInget on Sun, 22nd Jan 2017 1:06 pm

It’s true! There’s not a Hell of a lot we can do about green house gasses ALREADY in the pipeline.
What can we do for future generations ?

We could stop maiming millions of innocents with weapons of wars, (over oil).

WE could eliminate deadly coal burning.
(coal to gas, diesel also)

We could begin a 20 year program phasing out ICE engines. (make diesel and gasoline subject to
taxes commensurate with damage done to the environment).

Prepare for erratic climate in agriculture sectors
with genetically modified crops.

Stop flaring gas. Instead, store it.

Build more solar powered desalinization systems.
Recycle brine.

Off shore wind power has proved itself as has solar and LED lighting.

Begin to move entire populations inland.

Make it against the law to suppress or destroy scientific climate data for short term profit.

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Kenz300 on Tue, 24th Jan 2017 9:43 am