Sentences with phrase «u.s. ocean drilling»

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Overturning Obama's Arctic drilling ban April 28 Trump issued an executive order overturning an indefinite ban on drilling in much of the U.S. Arctic Ocean and parts of the Atlantic.

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In October, Congress approved a conference report attached to the U.S. Department of Interior's appropriations bill that cited expanded leasing in the Arctic Ocean, including seismic testing and exploratory drilling, and called for independent scientific analysis before the agency proceeds.

«Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the oceans, is giving up its 60 million - year - old secrets through scientific ocean drilling,» said Jamie Allan, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which supports ocean drilling,» said Jamie Allan, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which supports Ocean Sciences, which supports IODP.

No one disputes that a lot of oil lies untapped under the rocky floors of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans off the U.S. coasts, in areas where Congress has banned drilling since 1982.

A report about U.S. oil and gas exploration in the Arctic published last month by the National Petroleum Council found most drilling opportunities under America's jurisdiction are less than 100 meters below the ocean's surface, more shallow - than - standard depths in other drill regions, like the Gulf of Mexico.

The directive could lead to a reversal of bans on drilling across swathes of the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

He participated in several scientific cruises both in New Zealand waters overlying the continental shelf with NZ based groups and in the southern Pacific with the big time, Ocean Drilling Program research ships funded by the U.S.

The Surfrider Foundation immediately responded to the threat by issuing an action alert, opposition resources, and taking the lead on organizing robust statewide coalitions across the coastal U.S. to help proponents of healthy ocean and coastal ecosystems rise up in unified, widespread, bipartisan, cross-sectoral opposition to any new offshore drilling or seismic activity.

At our Ocean Recreation Lobby event in Washington D.C. on February 15 and 16, staff of U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, a leading opponent to this offshore drilling proposal, provided a breakfast briefing to our nearly 100 participants.

Horizontal drilling and fracking, mostly in the U.S., were said to have released oceans of new oil and a...

Oil drilling in areas falling within the U.S. and Canada's territorial jurisdiction of the Arctic Ocean, as well as certain areas of the Atlantic ocean, is now illOcean, as well as certain areas of the Atlantic ocean, is now illocean, is now illegal.