Sentences with phrase «more offshore oil drilling»

And again the call has been raised to stop more offshore oil drilling.

Just a day shy of 100 days into his presidency, Trump signed an executive order to open more offshore oil drilling in U.S. waters.

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Oil service companies are getting hit because they are focusing their efforts on offshore drilling, an industry struggling due to low oil prices that can not justify conducting more typically lucrative deep - water drilling projecOil service companies are getting hit because they are focusing their efforts on offshore drilling, an industry struggling due to low oil prices that can not justify conducting more typically lucrative deep - water drilling projecoil prices that can not justify conducting more typically lucrative deep - water drilling projects.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

By a 20 - percentage point margin, citizens are more likely than scientists to favor offshore oil drilling.

Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican, has sent a letter pressing the Department of Interior for more information on its questionable oversight of offshore oil drilling.

For example, an «energy security fee» of $ 3.50 per barrel of imported oil would raise approximately $ 15 billion annually; reduced fossil fuel subsidies as proposed by the administration could generate upwards of $ 35 billion over ten years; a utilities electricity fee could raise at least $ 2 billion annually, as included in the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act; and royalties on new offshore continental shelf drilling could raise more than $ 100 billion over twenty years.

Just a few weeks prior to the BP oil spill, President Obama announced that more areas would be opened up for offshore drilling, though a compromise was made which kept several areas the oil industry wanted access to off limits.

What's more, offshore oil drilling will not guarantee lower fuel prices — oil is a global commodity, and US production is not big enough to influence global prices.

«Thinking that there is more oil to be drilled offshore gives people a false sense of hope that there's actually enough oil out there to make us energy independent,» says Jonathan Dorn, staff researcher at the Earth Policy Institute.

In fact, he raised more than one million dollars from big oil just last month, most of which came after he announced his plan for offshore drilling in a room full of cheering oil executives.

In 2016, Surfrider Foundation and our partners successfully stopped the federal government's plans for offshore oil drilling and related seismic blasting off the Atlantic coast (read more).

Supply, cost, environmental consequences - these are among the central features of debate over energy policy in the U.S. Those who want to open up more areas to drilling - on land and offshore - and expand the use of fracking to extract natural gas from deep underground argue that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Countries often have the option of reducing their rate of decline by adding production in areas which are more expensive to drill (say deeper, smaller locations offshore Norway) or by using enhanced oil recovery methods.

For example, 49 % of this group favors more offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, while 50 % oppose it.

In January 2018, the federal government threatened New York's coastline with its Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Program for 2019 - 2024, proposing to make more than 90 percent of the total offshore acreage in the United States available to oil and gas drilliOil and Gas Program for 2019 - 2024, proposing to make more than 90 percent of the total offshore acreage in the United States available to oil and gas drillioil and gas drilling.

Find more information on the Surfrider Foundation's position on offshore oil drilling, and Not The Answer Campaign, visit www.nottheanswer.org.

After a meaningless moratorium that was more symbolic than anything else, our government decided to speed up the offshore oil drilling permitting process.

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

In June, during the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, there was more opposition (52 %) than support (44 %) for increased offshore drilling.

Not only does more extreme weather threaten infrastructure like offshore oil platforms, but more droughts from global warming can create water stress, affecting hydropower and limiting resources for drilling.

It claims that harnessing offshore - wind power in Atlantic waters is a much more cost - effective way to generate energy than oil and gas drilling.

In doing so, he ignored his administration's top experts on ocean science, who warned that the offshore plan dramatically understated the risks of an oil spill and petitioned Salazar to exempt the Arctic from drilling until more scientific studies could be conducted.

Today's new offshore drilling plan reveals, once again, that Trump's energy strategy entails little more than smoothing the road for Big Oil to to get whatever they want.

Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) 2018 budget increases spending for expanding offshore oil and gas drilling by more than $ 10 million through the national Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Progroil and gas drilling by more than $ 10 million through the national Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing ProgrOil and Gas Leasing Program.

If Barack Obama were saying, as John McCain has, that offshore oil drilling will reduce energy prices in the short term, or that it is a real solution to U.S. energy independence, then I might feel more strongly about this.

About three quarters (74 %) consider increasing our use and production of alternative energy sources to be more important than increasing offshore oil drilling (15 %).

But now it has come to light that the oil industry is conducting offshore fracking in the Gulf, which is even more dangerous than conventional oil drilling, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

He includes nuclear energy, and insists on permitting more offshore drilling for oil and gas to give us more domestic sources, as we bridge to a new clean energy economy.

«Most oil production today is «shale plays,» he says, pointing out that the price of oil isn't high enough for energy companies to engage in offshore drilling, which would create more and better - paying jobs.