Sentences with phrase «offshore drilling program»

An exclusion from the offshore drilling program was granted to Florida on the grounds that it relies heavily on tourism as one of the nation's top ocean economies.

March 9 (Reuters)- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday said he had formally asked for the state to be excluded from a federal offshore drilling program that he said would threaten its ocean resources and endanger efforts toward a cleaner energy economy.

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The five - year program, launched by the federal government in early January, proposes to make over 90 percent of the total U.S. offshore acreage available to oil and gas drilling.

He has scheduled some high prolife events focusing on national issues in recent days, including an event with Al Gore to ask that New York be excluded from the Trump administration's expanded offshore oil and gas drilling program.

Former Vice President Al Gore and Gov. Andrew Cuomo ask that New York be excluded from the Trump administration's expanded offshore oil and gas drilling program.

A borehole was drilled at Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1361 (fig. 1), in 3,465 m of water, situated 310 km offshore of the Adélie Land margin of East Antarctica.

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 drilling.

But then, in April, Trump issued an executive order aimed at implementing his so - called «America - First Offshore Energy Strategy,» which called for a review of the 2017 - 2022 Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program finalized under the Obama Administration and proposed that all U.S. waters be considered for offshore drilling.

Seismic airgun surveys are the first step toward offshore drilling, of course, but under the current five - year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas leasing program adopted by the Obama Administration, the Atlantic can not be considered for drilling.

To get truly serious about addressing climate change, Washington must end the billions in subsidies going to the industry and move to keep fossil fuels in the ground by banning drilling offshore and ending the fossil fuel leasing program on public lands.

9) Shrink the renewable energy programs, and jumpstart onshore and offshore leasing, drilling, fracking, and mining on federally managed lands.

It hosts one of the shallowest offshore groundwater reservoirs globally, and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 317 collected a wealth of borehole data in this region in 2009 and 2010 [Post et al., 2013].

These brazen proposals fly in the face of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) recently completed environmental assessment of offshore drilling that informed the 2017 - 2022 Oil & Gas Leasing Program.

«The massive turnout for the Hands Across the Sand today shows that people oppose the risky practice of offshore drilling and understand that we need to seek real solutions to our energy crisis including increased efficiency, conservation and renewable alternatives,» said Pete Stauffer, Surfrider Foundation's Ocean Program Manager.

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 Program.

The safety record was remarkable, because offshore drilling today pushes technology with challenges matched only by the space program.