It was well that President Biden’s nominee mentioned that she was an Indigenous woman, as none of the Republican members on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee acknowledged the historic nature of Haaland’s nomination to oversee the federal agency that has responsibility for Indian Country. GOP senators Barrasso, Daines, Lankford, Murkowski and Hoeven are all past or present members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
She is an extremist though.As expected, Haaland was repeatedly quizzed about extractive industry and what some GOP Members of Congress have called her “radical” and “extreme” views on renewable energy as part of her stated commitment to address climate change and transition from the present reliance on fossil fuels.
Haaland repeatedly committed to support all forms of energy development in a “responsible manner” and that she would implement “President Biden’s agenda.”
“Yes, I did go to stand with the water protectors,” Haaland responded. “The reason I did that is because I agreed with the tribe that they felt they weren’t consulted in the best way,” she said of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and emphasized the importance of tribal consultation.
Daryl Owen | LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources said:On October 21, 2014, DAPL submitted an application to the Corps for
approval of over 200 river crossings, permission to lay pipe beneath seven
locations used by the Corps for navigation and flood control under the
Rivers and Harbors Act, and a real estate easement pursuant to Section 28
of the MLA31 to allow the pipe to traverse beneath Corps-owned flood
control lands at Lake Oahe.
During the more than two years of Corps consideration of this
application, Dakota Access and the Corps held 559 meetings with
potentially affected parties. In furtherance of obligations under the NHPA
and GC 20, they held 389 meetings with fifty-five potentially affected
Indian Tribes. DAPL also engaged dozens of cultural experts who worked
closely with State and Tribal historic preservation officers to ensure that
nothing of cultural significance was disturbed. As a result of their findings,
140 route changes were undertaken in North Dakota alone.32 DAPL also
accommodated the concerns of each of the fifty-five Tribes.33
Obviously, any kidnapping or murder should be thoroughly investigated. But I do not see why Hoeven should be obligated to talk about this in the confirmation hearing.Hoeven, until recently the chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, failed to mention the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) crisis in relation to the Bakken fracking fields that border the MHA Nation. MMIWG cases in the area rose 178% with the advent of man camps in the Bakken.
Why is everyone overlooking she is Indian which is a qualification.
None of those are qualifications. Conservative/liberal is a set of political positions and is thus more relevant to nomination that ethnicity, but it is not qualification per se.If black, southern, conservative or flatulate, are qualifications
then certainly being a descendant of survivor of the American extinction event, otherwise known as Westward Ho, in the 1800s qualifies.
It would not. Something like a degree in geology or petroleum engineering or even physics or chemistry would be great qualifications. As would be history of work in the extractive industries.If she were a Republican, "congressman from a major oil state" would be trotted out as a point blank, unquestionable qualification for the role.
And they would be just as happy to trot out her race, for that matter. They don't have as many minority representatives on the white nationalist side of the aisle, but when they have someone, they're all too happy to use their race as proof of the Party's liberal-mindedness. "You say we're racists, but if that's true, how come we have a Black on our side, answer me that" blah blah.
I am concerned because it is the claim Ms. Haaland is a "clear and present danger in the here and now" is either hysterical rhetoric or fucking delusional. Please get a grip on reality.
Our economy needs those resources. So yes, I am upset that extractive industries will be hamstrung by Haaland.Are you jealous? Or are you upset because the extract natural resources at all costs orgy at the Department of Interior may be over?
So yes, I am upset that extractive industries will be hamstrung by Haaland.
I don't like Tanden, but Manchin is an ass.
Fuck Manchin! Fuck Collins! Fuck Murkowski! All three put political correctness and identity politics over the good of the country.
$5 gas is not far off under Haaland hamstringing oil and gas industry and shutting down pipelines.
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Not on reality if you really believe that Ms. Haaland is a "clear and present danger in the here and now" $5 gas is not far off under Haaland hamstringing oil and gas industry and shutting down pipelines. " Seriously, I worry about such anyone's grip on reality when I read such alarmist delusions.I am concerned because it is the claim Ms. Haaland is a "clear and present danger in the here and now" is either hysterical rhetoric or fucking delusional. Please get a grip on reality.
My grip is fine.
So you are upset that the orgy at the DOI for natural resource extraction industries may be over. At worst, if those industries access to those resources is "hamstrung", then the price of those resources on the open market will rise which is a good thing, since their current prices do not reflect the marginal costs of their extraction and use.Our economy needs those resources. So yes, I am upset that extractive industries will be hamstrung by Haaland.
Merrick Garland has been confirmed 70-30.
Merrick Garland has been confirmed 70-30.
Merrick Garland has been confirmed 70-30.
Another diaper-change moment for El Cheato.
She was recently confirmed by some Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee.Republican Senators Steve Daines and Cynthia Lummis earlier in the day put holds on Biden’s nomination of U.S. Representative Deb Haaland to head the department, in a move that likely only delays her confirmation for a few days until next week.
Haaland is expected to be confirmed by the Senate as at least two Republicans, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, support her nomination.
“Despite Republican obstruction, Representative Haaland will be confirmed by the Senate,” Schumer said. If approved, Haaland would become the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency.
President Biden’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, Xavier Becerra, received praise from two GOP attorneys general he worked with during his time as California attorney general, as Republicans in the Senate push to torpedo his nomination.
Becerra, if confirmed, would be the nation’s first Latino secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. He is expected to face a final Senate vote on his nomination in the coming days after the Senate Finance Committee voted on his nomination last week, ending in a tie along party lines.
Not on reality if you really believe that Ms. Haaland is a "clear and present danger in the here and now" $5 gas is not far off under Haaland hamstringing oil and gas industry and shutting down pipelines. " Seriously, I worry about such anyone's grip on reality when I read such alarmist delusions.
So you are upset that the orgy at the DOI for natural resource extraction industries may be over. At worst, if those industries access to those resources is "hamstrung", then the price of those resources on the open market will rise which is a good thing, since their current prices do not reflect the marginal costs of their extraction and use.
It's almost $6/gallon in Denmark.
Poor fuckers are going under - can't afford healthcare.
Oh wait - no, that's the US.
Harvard Crimson said:BSA President Kristen Clarke '97 wasn't here for the Jeffries lecture. But in a letter to the editors of The Crimson, Clarke made a series of assertions cerily reminiscent of the CUNY professor's racist theories. Among them, was the following: "Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities--something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards."
Not on reality if you really believe that Ms. Haaland is a "clear and present danger in the here and now" $5 gas is not far off under Haaland hamstringing oil and gas industry and shutting down pipelines. " Seriously, I worry about such anyone's grip on reality when I read such alarmist delusions.
She is a known opponent of the oil and gas industries. That is a fact. She even went to North Dakota to protest an oil pipeline in 2016. Nominating a cabinet secretary protesting against the very industry they are tasked at managing/regulating is stupid. It's like having an education secretary who was protesting against public schools!
So you are upset that the orgy at the DOI for natural resource extraction industries may be over. At worst, if those industries access to those resources is "hamstrung", then the price of those resources on the open market will rise which is a good thing, since their current prices do not reflect the marginal costs of their extraction and use.
If the domestic oil and gas production is hamstrung, as I predict will happen under Haaland, then the prices will rise not by recognizing external costs (not "marginal costs") of their extraction and use. Taxation would accomplish that. All hamstringing the industry will accomplish is to reduce supply, which means not only higher prices but US energy consumer having to use more imported oil and gas which in turn means more money funding jobs for people in Venezuela or Russia or Saudi Arabia and not in US. Which means fewer jobs, tax revenues and royalties in the US.
Better approach would be to support domestic energy production but to impose a carbon tax to account for externalities.