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Five-Year Plan for Offshore Drilling
Five-Year Plan... Was that Lenin or Stalin who (originally)invented that? Mao? Can't have a proper socialist state without a five year plan developed by elite experts, Bobby. Ev'ryone knows that...
The Interior Department's proposed plan delineates where oil and gas companies can bid, from 2012 to 2017, to lease offshore areas they think hold the promise of new oil and gas reserves. The plan drew fire from some environmental groups, which said it went too far, and from the American Petroleum Institute, whose president, Jack Gerard, called it a "missed opportunity" and said it did not go far enough in opening up new areas for drilling. In postponing lease sales along the Eastern Seaboard, the plan took a step back from proposals President Obama made in the spring of 2010 before a blowout triggered last year's spill in the Gulf. Instead, the plan would allow seismic tests off the Atlantic coast to gather more information about how much oil and gas might be there. Seismic? Doesn't that bother the whales? Won't it trigger stronger earthquakes in Virginia? We just had a dandy last August 23rd! "Here's a state that has strong bipartisan support [for drilling], that has repeatedly asked the secretary to include a lease sale off Virginia, and they refuse to do it," Gerard said. We could drill on land in Alaska. We could build a pipeline from Canada. We could frack gas in Pennsylvania or oil in North Dakota. When you are against it somewhere, we should ask if they are for it anywhere. That'd give a little perspective! Posted by: Bobby 2011-11-13 |
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