Here's How We do It In The U.S. - Litigate

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A permit issued by the Environmental Protection Agency puts Shell Oil Co. one step closer to drilling in the Arctic this year, agency officials said Thursday.
The decision came a day after President Bush urged Congress to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, arguing that the U.S. needs to increase its energy production.
The EPA permit allows Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Dutch-owned Royal Dutch Shell PLC, to release up to 245 tons of nitrogen oxides at each of its drilling sites in the Beaufort Sea.

Shell's current exploration plan is still blocked by an injunction from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, pending a final ruling on whether the company can drill at all.
"We're hopeful that the 9th Circuit will overturn the exploration plan and render this permit meaningless," said Brendan Cummings, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.
The air-quality permit can be challenged through the EPA appeals process, as well as in court.

The phrase "Nero fiddles while Rome burns" is applicable to the leftist political process of endless litigation of expanding energy production, whether it be oil, gas, coal, nuclear, or wind generated. With the leftist Democrat party in the pocket of the environmentalists is $200.00 oil just around the corner? This country is burning while the leftists and Democratic party fiddles. (Tim)