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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump administration to allow/expand drilling off ALL U.S. continental waters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/01/04/trump-administration-plans-to-allow-drilling-off-all-u-s-waters/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.32c863da6544The Trump administration unveiled a controversial plan Thursday to permit drilling in most U.S. continental shelf waters, including protected areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic, where oil and gas exploration is opposed by governors from New Jersey to Florida, nearly a dozen attorneys general, more than 100 U.S. lawmakers and the Defense Department.
More than 3 billion barrels of oil is recoverable on the outer continental shelf, along with more than 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to the Interior Department, which announced the plan. States stand to gain royalties from extraction of these natural resources, and drilling could create hundreds of jobs.
But the plan faces a wave of bipartisan state opposition, led in part by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, who has said: Im not in favor of offshore drilling. A catastrophe on the scale of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil leak in 2010 would be disastrous for one of the states most precious resources, the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) is opposed out of concern over drillings impact on the states natural resources. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fired off a letter to the Interior agency that issues permits saying the state strongly opposes any waters off our coastline being considered for inclusion in this leasing program, citing its $44 billion beach tourism industry that creates more than 300,000 jobs.
The Democratic governors of North Carolina and Delaware are also opposed. Republican Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, where beach tourism on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts generates nearly $50 billion dollars and a half million jobs annually, according to a Florida Atlantic University report, said Thursday that he adamantly opposes drilling off the states coast and requested a meeting with Zinke.
More than 3 billion barrels of oil is recoverable on the outer continental shelf, along with more than 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to the Interior Department, which announced the plan. States stand to gain royalties from extraction of these natural resources, and drilling could create hundreds of jobs.
But the plan faces a wave of bipartisan state opposition, led in part by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, who has said: Im not in favor of offshore drilling. A catastrophe on the scale of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil leak in 2010 would be disastrous for one of the states most precious resources, the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) is opposed out of concern over drillings impact on the states natural resources. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fired off a letter to the Interior agency that issues permits saying the state strongly opposes any waters off our coastline being considered for inclusion in this leasing program, citing its $44 billion beach tourism industry that creates more than 300,000 jobs.
The Democratic governors of North Carolina and Delaware are also opposed. Republican Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, where beach tourism on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts generates nearly $50 billion dollars and a half million jobs annually, according to a Florida Atlantic University report, said Thursday that he adamantly opposes drilling off the states coast and requested a meeting with Zinke.
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CousinIT
Jan 2018
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Cattledog
(5,919 posts)1. Green Party F@%k you!
And everyone who said Trump and Hillary were the same.
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)2. and here we go again...
back to the numerous lawsuits etc. filed by states back in the old days (80s?) to resist offshore drilling...and w/ the glut of oil on the marketplace this effort is not going to go anywhere anyway...
Liberal In Texas
(13,574 posts)3. And they just relaxed regulations put in place after the BP disaster.
The Trump administration is undoing the safety and environmental regulations put in place by President Obama after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 people and, for weeks, dumped millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, amounting to the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The catastrophic environmental event killed nearly 1 million birds along the Gulf Coast and led to BP paying $18.7 billion in civil penalties and damages. According to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the regulatory changes will save extraction companies some $288 million over 10 years.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/12/trump-is-ending-safety-regulations-enacted-after-catastrophic-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/12/trump-is-ending-safety-regulations-enacted-after-catastrophic-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill.html
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,192 posts)4. Bound and determined to be a one term president
Maybe less than that even.