Sentences with phrase «expansion of offshore oil drilling»
Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil was investing its massive $ 45 billion in earnings in maximizing extraction and processing of oil and gas, including the controversial use of hydrofracturing (fracking) to extract fuel from tar sands and the expansion of offshore oil drilling.
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Cuomo announced that he has formally requested that New York be excluded from the federal government's expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling access and touted several other initiatives that he's undertaken as governor.
As it stands as the start of June 2010, expansion of offshore drilling in US coastal waters remains on hold pending investigation of the causes of the BP oil spill.
The CEA supports lifting moratoria on offshore and land - based oil and natural gas drilling, encourages the creation and expansion of petroleum refineries and easing the permitting process for 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.