Sentences with phrase «offshore oil drilling make»

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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.

Additionally, it comes at a time when oil prices are on the rise, but stuck in a range that makes multibillion - dollar projects in new offshore areas unattractive for many drillers.

The resulting climate change is part of what makes drilling for oil offshore in the unfreezing Arctic possible, just as it has opened once mythical shipping routes such as the Northwest and Northeast Passages.

Man - made sounds such as offshore drilling, seismic testing for deep sea oil, and even the hum from that Spanish cargo ship permeate the ocean at ever - increasing levels.

Kaufman dismisses as «nonsense» any promises that offshore drilling could make the U.S. «oil independent.»

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...

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.

«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 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.

«This tragic spill makes it clear that the miniscule benefits of offshore oil drilling are not worth the consequences,» says Jim Moriarty, Surfrider Foundation's CEO.

Our opportunity here isn't only about protecting the ocean waters of America, marine life, a favorite surf break, jobs or a given beach community; it's about demanding that our government utilize the best available science and data and listen to the massive outpouring of public opposition to destructive offshore oil and gas development, to shift the tides of energy development instead away from fossil fuels and toward renewables; it's about holding our President and federal agencies accountable for decisions they make about the management of the ocean; it's about protecting the ocean and every coastline from the atrocity and injustice of offshore drilling and exploration; it's about protecting clean water, air and beaches now and for the future; it's about protecting one another, and the Earth.

HEMP is a good answer — no wars were fought for hemp and cooking oil, no harmful pipelines were built and leaked for that oil, no ocean life was ruined due to offshore drilling, no one's health was effected for that vegetable oil, the air is cleaner with that oil due to no green house gases released — this oil can be recycled from our food — hemp can replace fibers, pulp, plastics and it still makes food and grows in under 3 months (and it does not need much water, no fertilizer and cleans the air!!

and George Bush, perhaps with an eye towards the fuel riots going on around the world, jumps and proposes the new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: 1) drilling offshore, 2) drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 3) adding refineries, and 4) extracting oil from shale, which makes the Alberta Tar Sands look environmentally benign.

To illustrate, I bring you the 7 stupidest things said about the BP oil spill so far... Some of these statements are made out of pure ignorance, while others are clearly intended to downplay the impact of the event, and any ramifications it might have on offshore drilling in general.

The oil spill sealed the fate of the Kerry - Lieberman bill, making any push to expand offshore drilling untenable in the short term.

This BP representative probably was correct was way off base in his Congressional testimony, made back in November of 2009, that offshore oil drilling in the Gulf has a long history of being «safe.»