Drill now for energy in America Our abundant oil and gas
would keep money, jobs, and opportunities here in the United
States. By Roy Innis, Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality,
June 12, 2008 (Posted by permission)

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In-Depth Information
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The New
Wars for the West - Keynote Address by William Perry
Pendley, Esq., President and Chief Legal Officer, Mountain States
Legal Foundation, Lakewood, Colorado; Eleventh Annual National
Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October
13, 2007)
Perry Pendley successfully defended John Shuller against the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when, in self-defense, he shot
a grizzly bear. He won the case for Larry Squires, who wanted
to allow disposal of oil field brine in dry sink holes on his
property. Mountain States Legal Foundation is fighting for inholder
access to their property blocked by the U.S. Forest Service.
Pendley has argued successfully three times before the U.S. Supreme
Court on the right of contract regardless of race or ethnicity,
against what is called affirmative action.
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Update
from Congress - By Jason Knox, Esq., Member of Legislative
Staff, Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Forests and
Public Lands, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.;
Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights
(PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Part of the legislation that Nancy Pelosi would like to ram
through Congress is H.R. 6 to take, Chavez-like, the contracts
of oil companies awarded to drill on the outer continental shelf
during the Clinton Administration. A National Heritage Area omnibus
bill (H.R. 1483) would accomplish the Journey through Hallowed
Ground and Niagara Falls National Heritage Areas, among others.
The Niagara Falls area would involve the National Park Service
in casinos. H.R. 2016 would do away with multiple use in BLM
lands, making billions of acres into defacto wilderness.
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Invest for
Freedom-To Stop the Use of Capitalism Against Capitalism
- By Thomas J. Borelli, Ph. D., Managing Partner and Portfolio
Manager, Free Enterprise Action Fund, Eleventh Annual National
Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October
13, 2007)
Environmental organizations are harnessing major corporations
like Pepsico, Caterpillar, General Electric and JP Morgan Chase
against their own corporate interests and capitalism itself to
promote universal government government-funded health care and
an economy centered on global warming-based regulation. Acting
as a shareholder activist, the Free Enterprise Action Fund successfully
sought a stockholder proxy at JP Morgan Chase against their support
for global warming regulation.
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- BATH PETROLEUM STORAGE, INC.
- Amicus
Curiae Memorandum of the New York State Propane Gas Association
in Support of Motion for Leave to Appeal - Bath Petroleum Storage, Inc., et al., v. New
York State DEC, et al., New York State Court of Appeals (Civil
Appeal No. 0102144, Nov. 2002)
The decline of propane storage capacity and the existence
of only one propane pipeline in New York State, the effect on
meeting consumer demands, the limitation of judicial deference
to administrative agency determination (court precedent has not
extended judicial deference to unlawful actions of administrative
agencies), the need to overturn the appellate divisions
ruling because it would allow the agency to stonewall an applicant
for a renewal permit with overly burdensome and irrelevant informational
requests. DEC seeks to impose regulations that were proposed
but not enacted.
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- Notice
for Leave to Appeal with Memorandum in Support Bath
Petroleum Storage, et al., v. New York State DEC, et al.,
New York State Court of Appeals (Civil Appeal No. 01-02144, Nov.
4, 2002)
Bath Petroleum Storage, Inc. and E.I.L. Petroleum, Inc. (BPSI)
applied for a renewal of its State Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System Permit that had been in effect for 24 years. DEC issued
a number of notices of incomplete application that sought additional
information. In many cases, however, the information sought was
not new; rather DEC demanded that BPSI change its answers to
particular questions contained in the application. Despite numerous
supplemental submissions, DEC denied the application on the basis
that it was incomplete. On appeal, the administrative law judge
determined that BPSI was not entitled to a hearing, which was
confirmed by the DEC deputy commissioner. However, Livingston
County Supreme Court Judge Raymond E. Cornelius ruled that DECs
reliance on its completeness determination to deny the permit
application and thereby block BPSI from ever challenging DECs
actions by obtaining a hearing was arbitrary and capricious.
The Appellate Division Fourth Department reversed Judge Cornelius
in a two-paragraph summary opinion stating that its inquiry was
limited to determining whether DEC had articulated a rational
basis for its decision.
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- BATH PETROLEUM STORAGE, INC.
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- DECs
Over-regulation of Small Oil Producers - By Carol W. LaGrasse
(Reprinted from The Property Owners Experience,
April 1998)
Over the past fifteen years, thousands of oil wells in the
Bradford Field in southwestern New York have gone out of production.
Although the wells have the capacity to produce oil for many
years, the operators are squeezed by low prices and increased
costs of environmental regulation.
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