Dick Glick has finally pulled it off. Yesterday the three Democrat members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), under the direction of Chairman Richard “Dick” Glick, rammed through a new policy/regulation to be used when evaluating new natural gas and oil pipelines. Both Republican members of the commission objected. The new policy requires consideration of nebulous and undefined global warming impacts (so-called greenhouse gas emissions) of any project up for review, something that cannot be calculated. This means whoever is in charge of FERC can decide how they want to define the regulation–the filter they use to evaluate a project. It is a classic swamp-dweller maneuver.
