Sentences with phrase «allowing offshore drilling»

Well, this one starts by opening up the North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, clearing the way for oil shale development on public lands, and allowing offshore drilling on heretofore off - limits areas of the Atlanta and Pacific coasts - including, of course, California.

In its draft leasing plan that will set the boundaries for oil development in federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.

Not exact matches

Andrews said Victoria, which gets most of its gas from offshore fields in the Bass Strait, would extend a moratorium on onshore conventional gas drilling until 2020, while it evaluates the risks and benefits of allowing it.

With the release of its master plan for offshore wind energy, New York State is doubling down on its commitment to renewable energy at a time when the Trump administration is moving to allow coastal drilling for oil and gas.

At the same time, he said he didn't think the president would use the state as a case study against oil development, considering the recent decision to allow exploratory offshore drilling near Alaska.

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

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This ignorance leads to radio ads decrying NIMBYism as the only reason for disallowing offshore drilling, even while these rich landowners still don't allow any wind / solar where they can see, make up all sorts of lies about wind / solar, while bush refuses to give equal subsidies to «alternative» energy and refuses to tax windfall profits to oil companies, who break records year after year in profits...

Additionally, in January the Trump administration said it would allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States coastal waters, including near our west coast National Marine Sanctuaries.

, are also still hoping to cobble together compromise environmental legislation that would require emissions reductions, but also expand nuclear energy production and allow limited offshore drilling.

And I think that we should look at offshore drilling and implement it in a way that allows us to get some additional oil.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new offshore oil and gas plan from the U.S. Department of the Interior blocks two drilling leases in the Arctic, but allows a new lease in Alaska's Cook Inlet and 10 new leases in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years — a step that will worsen climate change by ensuring significant greenhouse gas pollution for the next 70 years.

Currently, 51 % of Americans favor allowing more offshore oil and gas drilling in U.S. waters while 41 % are opposed.

Though the dirty energy industries» dislike of Obama seems a bit misplaced, (between allowing widespread fracking and his support of drilling offshore and in the arctic, Obama has given the fossil fuel lobby plenty) it does make sense that they would support Mitt Romney.

In taking this important step, President Obama listened to coastal and Alaska Native residents, scientists, and the large majority of Americans, who recognize that offshore drilling is too risky and too dirty to allow.

American Attitudes Towards Alternative Energy, Conservation But 90 % of those surveyed support an increase in alternative energy development, although 81 % want the U.S. government to allow more drilling both on and offshore.

As the House of Representatives just approved a new energy package which contains provisions to allow some offshore oil drilling, it may seem to be a moot point to go into a discussion of where John McCain and Barack Obama stand on the issue, but as there are still legislative hurdles to be cleared before any law is actually passed on the matter, it's worthwhile to go over their positions.

But this bill, the cap - and - trade bill, was strongly criticized by hardcore environmentalist wackos because it supposedly allowed more offshore drilling and nuclear plants, nuclear plant investment.

As the House of Representatives just approved a new energy package which contains provisions to allow some offshore oil drilling, it may seem to be a moot point to go into a discussion of where John McCain and Barack Obama stand on

Congressional Democrats bowed to political pressure yesterday and agreed to let the ban on offshore oil drilling expire, a decision that would allow exploration just three miles off the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines unless the next president reinstates an executive branch order that prohibits drilling.

The House voted this week to pass an expansion of offshore drilling to allow companies to extract oil from coastal regions as little as 50 miles from the shoreline.

For those who say that we should at least allow exploration to see what's out there, it must be noted that even the exploratory phase of offshore drilling is highly risky.