Older adults also express more support
for offshore oil drilling, and they are more likely to prioritize fossil fuel development over alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power.
«We may be looking
at offshore oil drilling,» he said, in arguing for the wind farm, which could be operational in 2022.
Our ocean, waves and beaches are vital recreational, economic and ecological treasures that are put at risk
by offshore oil drilling.
About three quarters (74 %) consider increasing our use and production of alternative energy sources to be more important than
increasing offshore oil drilling (15 %).
The other focal point, more legitimately, is Obama's challenge in trying to justify expanding
offshore oil drilling in Arctic waters as he pushes a domestic climate plan and climate treaty pledge aimed away from fossil fuels.
Now, Graham and colleagues are waiting to see whether the species becomes a permanent resident, perhaps encouraged by declining coastal water quality and a growing thicket of
offshore oil drilling platforms, which may provide the perfect hard substrate for a bottom - dwelling life stage.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released a draft of the 2019 - 2024 five year
offshore oil drilling plan for US waters.
«The Surfrider Foundation is deeply dismayed by the House's decision to expand
offshore oil drilling off the California coast, the Atlantic coast, and elsewhere.
We know that plastics production is being dialled up dramatically, that gas production is increasing all over the world thanks to fracking technology, that restrictions on
offshore oil drilling make even more cheap American fuels.
If that wasn't enough, expanding industries such
as offshore oil drilling, renewable energy, shipping, and aquaculture threaten to crowd our oceans and degrade the health of the ecosystem.
It is appalling that while the federal government is
pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».
Current renewable energy legislation is stalled in the senate, with disagreement
over offshore oil drilling being cited as a reason for the current deadlock.
On the other hand, Barack Obama — while not ruling out the use of greater nuclear power, clean coal, or
even offshore oil drilling with qualifications — has expressed much greater confidence in the ability of renewable energy technology to supply a greater percentage of our energy needs in a shorter time period.
Despite the 2010
offshore oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, despite the U.S. suddenly becoming the top oil producer in the world and despite decades of opposition, President Barack Obama is moving to open up the offshore Atlantic to oil and gas drilling.
In terms of conservation, Belize was the first country in the world to completely ban bottom trawling in 2010 and subsequently banned
offshore oil drilling within 1 km of the reef, helping to maintain its pristine appearance.
The southern coast of Santa Barbara County was the location of the world's
first offshore oil drilling, which took place from piers at the Summerland Oil Field in 1896, just 6 miles (10 km) from the spill site.
When this post was first written fuel prices and the United States» future energy policy were the prime
reason offshore oil drilling made the headlines.
The story shows how companies
doing offshore oil drilling had shifted progressively to cutting the risk of failure by adding a second blind shear ram to blowout preventers.
While the political fight over the now - vivid environmental threat
attending offshore oil drilling plays out, it remains clear that the country's lawmakers are not remotely engaged in the multi-pronged energy quest that would be required to move the world toward a non-polluting, yet prosperous future.
«She has successfully fought to improve the strength of America's fisheries and to
keep offshore oil drilling from impacting the 165,000 Washington jobs that depend on clean coastal water.»
With the backing of science, economics, clean energy leaders, local businesses, and the vast majority of Americans, the Obama administration permanently protected most of the Arctic Ocean and a chain of deep sea canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to Canada's border, from dangerous and
destructive offshore oil drilling.
«The Trump administration's
embattled offshore oil drilling plan that exposes our public oceans to oil spills has unified the public in strong opposition that cuts across party lines.
It expanded extraction using hydrofracturing in tar sands to increase activity in
offshore oil drilling all over the world, thereby maximizing its rate of fossil fuel extraction and processing.
On Saturday, June 26, the nation will join hands on beaches and in parks and cities all across America, united against the dangers
offshore oil drilling present to our oceans and marine wildlife, fishing industries and coastal economies, in Hands Across The Sand.
The Surfrider Foundation is focused on protecting our coasts from the risky practice of
offshore oil drilling through grassroots advocacy at the federal and state levels.
By this
time offshore oil drilling would add approximately 250,000 barrels a day to the U.S. market, against an overall current demand of about 21 million barrels.
He is still illegally exempting
dangerous offshore oil drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico from all environmental review as millions of gallons of oil gush into the ocean.
Some small measure of sanity... BBC News, CNN, and others are reporting that President Obama will extend a ban on new
deepwater offshore oil drilling for six months, while the causes of the BP oil spill are investigated.
As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to spread, and the Coast Guard investigating reports that oil has begun washing ashore in Louisiana, President Obama has banned
new offshore oil drilling.
I can't help but wonder whether, years from now, I'll still be writing pieces with titles like «Destroying What Remains,» as the Navy continues its war - gaming in an ice - free summer Arctic amid a sea of
offshore oil drilling platforms.
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