Sentences with phrase «year outer continental shelf»

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In April, Trump signed the America First Offshore Energy Executive Order instructing Zinke to revise the current five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf, the waters off the U.S. shore that the federal government governs.

Expanding offshore drilling April 28 In the same executive order, Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to create a new five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf for oil and gas exploration.

Trump's new executive order now urges the U.S. Department of Interior to reassess and replace the most recent five - year oil and gas development plan the Obama administration put in place for the outer continental shelf, which covers federal waters off all U.S. coasts.

As the Interior Department hosts public «listening sessions» through early March to explain its proposed five - year lease plan — which would open 95 percent of the nation's outer continental shelf to potential drilling — a growing chorus of bipartisan opposition is finding its voice.

Darryl Fears reports: «As the Interior Department hosts public «listening sessions» through early March to explain its proposed five - year lease plan — which would open 95 percent of the nation's outer continental shelf to potential drilling — a growing chorus of bipartisan opposition is finding its voice.

One of those items was a five - year lease plan from the Department of Interior, for the years 2017 through 2022, which includes territories the federal government plans on auctioning off for oil and gas drilling on the outer continental shelf.

While technology improvements have lessened the occurrence of oil spills in the last 40 years, the Mineral Management Service a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf, projects about one oil spill per year of at least 1,000 barrels in the Gulf of Mexico over the next 40 years.

The Obama Administration blocked drilling on about 94 percent of the outer continental shelf, but, in April 2017, Trump issued an executive order that called for a review of the 2017 - 2022 Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program finalized under Obama in favor of implementing Trump's so - called «America - First Offshore Energy Strategy.&router continental shelf, but, in April 2017, Trump issued an executive order that called for a review of the 2017 - 2022 Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program finalized under Obama in favor of implementing Trump's so - called «America - First Offshore Energy Stratcontinental shelf, but, in April 2017, Trump issued an executive order that called for a review of the 2017 - 2022 Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program finalized under Obama in favor of implementing Trump's so - called «America - First Offshore Energy Strategy.&rOuter Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program finalized under Obama in favor of implementing Trump's so - called «America - First Offshore Energy StratContinental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program finalized under Obama in favor of implementing Trump's so - called «America - First Offshore Energy Strategy.»

The draft five - year plan that has just been released by the Trump Administration's Interior Department would open up 25 of 26 outer continental shelf regions to drilling.

It is likely to take 10 to 15 years for oil and gas production from the outer continental shelf of Alaska to come online.

Shell has been trying for six years — and has spent billions in the process — to explore its outer continental shelf leases offshore Alaska.

Also newsworthy is the Trump Administration's capricious process for public participation and comment on the release of a draft 5 - year plan for outer continental shelf offshore drilling in U.S. federal waters, including Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's back - and - forth exemption of Florida and the inclusion of Arctic leases.

According to an analysis by the Energy Information Administration, expanded U.S. off - shore drilling in the outer continental shelf would only reduce gas prices by about 3 cents per gallon 20 years from now1.

His 50 - year career in international law and diplomacy has spanned a wide and varied field, including settlement of disputes; the law of treaties; State responsibility; diplomatic and State immunity; maritime delimitation; the law of the Continental shelf; outer space and nuclear energy; the law of international organisations; the UN Security Council; the laws of war and neutrality; international criminal tribunals; and numerous other areas.