{"id":29002,"date":"2016-12-21T22:41:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=29002"},"modified":"2016-12-21T22:41:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:41:06","slug":"obama-moves-to-tie-trumps-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=29002","title":{"rendered":"Obama moves to tie Trump’s hands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"obama_94\"Afp, Washington: The White House blocked new leases for oil and gas drilling in sections of the Arctic and Atlantic Tuesday, a high-stakes bid to forestall exploration and tie Donald Trump's hands.<\/p>\n

With Trump is bringing a strident pro-oil stance to the White House, the outgoing administration has launched a rearguard action.<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama announced he was placing swaths of the Arctic and Atlantic “indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing.”<\/p>\n

The protection covers an area of the Arctic roughly the size of Spain or Thailand and 31 sea canyons in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

A senior administration official said that there was a “strong legal basis” for the move, and suggested Trump could not revoke the decision without an act of Congress.<\/p>\n

The action, based on a law from the 1950s, was taken in tandem with the Canadian government and introduces an additional headache should Trump try to row it back.<\/p>\n

Obama said in a statement that the measures would “protect a sensitive and unique ecosystem.”<\/p>\n

He also warned that the risk of oil spills “are significant,” and the ability “to clean up from a spill in the region's harsh conditions is limited.”<\/p>\n

The Hawaii-born president's second year in office was dominated by the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which poured millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afp, Washington: The White House blocked new leases for oil and gas drilling in sections of the Arctic and Atlantic Tuesday, a high-stakes bid to forestall exploration and tie Donald Trump’s hands. With Trump is bringing a strident pro-oil stance to the White House, the outgoing administration has launched a rearguard action. President Barack Obama […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n