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Shell Oil's Gamble: Will It Be Able to Drill in the Beaufort Sea?
By Bob Reiss - Politics DailyIt's called a "controlled crash landing." The twin-engine Saab turboprop plane chartered by Shell Oil circled warily above the volcanic peaks of the Aleutian Islands Dutch Harbor last week. It dived through a tiny opening in the clouds and the wheels smacked down amid driving snow. Inside sat about two dozen Alaskan Eskimos and a handful of Shell oil executives. At stake on the trip may be America's next big oil find. Shell wants to drill at least one exploratory oil well north of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea in 2011. The company insists it can do it safely. Members of the Inupiat and Yupik ...
Obama Bans New East Coast Offshore Drilling: 3 Possible Reasons
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 1) -- Don't drill, baby, don't drill. Reversing its pre-BP oil spill disaster position, the Obama administration announced today that it will not engage in offshore drilling on the East Coast of the U.S. and the eastern Gulf of Mexico region, according to The Associated Press. The original policy, announced three weeks before the gulf oil spill, would have permitted authorized drilling from the Delaware coast to waters near central Florida, as well as in northern Alaska. The new policy, however, does maintain the possibility for drilling near Alaska. "Our revised strategy lays out a ...
New Drilling Banned in Eastern Gulf, Atlantic Coast
By Laura Parker - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- The Obama administration announced today that the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has prompted it to scuttle plans to open waters off Florida and along the Atlantic coast to offshore oil and gas drilling for at least seven years. The change, detailed by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in a conference call, reverses key components of a sweeping energy plan President Barack Obama announced last March. "We are adjusting our strategy in areas where there are no active leases," Salazar said. "Our most appropriate course is to focus on areas with existing leases and not ...
Obama: No Offshore Drilling in East Coast Waters
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- In a reversal, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will not pursue offshore drilling off the East Coast of the U.S. and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. A senior administration official told The Associated Press that because of the BP oil spill, the Interior Department will not propose any new oil drilling in waters off the East Coast for at least the next seven years. President Barack Obama's earlier plan - announced in March, three weeks before the April BP spill - would have authorized officials to explore potential for drilling from Delaware to central Florida, ...
Tony Hayward Defends BP's Safety Record
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Sept. 15) -- Outgoing BP boss Tony Hayward defended his company's safety record during a grilling by British parliamentarians, saying there was "no evidence" that cost-cutting had contributed to the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Speaking before the U.K. Parliament's Energy and Climate Change Committee, Hayward said the oil giant had invested heavily in safety since he took control of the firm in 2007. "In the last three years, we have made safety our first priority at BP," he said, stressing that this "is about more than just rhetoric." Hayward told the committee BP had invested $22 ...
Gulf Coast Residents Still Support Oil Drilling Despite Spill, Poll Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyDespite the significant economic, environmental and emotional toll of the BP oil spill, residents of the Gulf Coast still overwhelmingly support off-shore drilling, according to a new poll. Three-quarters of respondents in a ABC News-Washington Post survey released Wednesday said drilling should resume at its existing level, or be expanded. And by a margin of 60-38 percent, residents of Gulf states are against the six-month moratorium on drilling ordered Monday by the White House. This poll was based on results among 1,288 respondents nationally and from an extra sample of randomly ...
Energy Industry's Lobbying Outlay: $2.9 Billion Since 2000
By David Sessions - Politics DailyLarge energy industries, led by oil and gas, have spent a combined $2.9 billion over the past decade on electing candidates, lobbying for industry-friendly policy, and swaying regulators in their favor, according to a report released Tuesday by Common Cause, a nonpartisan organization that monitors money in politics. Since 1990, donations to lawmakers from employees of energy companies and their political action committees have increased more than 300 percent, according to the report, which is based on public data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a government watchdog group. While ...
Is Obama's Oil Spill Panel Biased Against Drilling?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyBack in May, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating a seven-member commission to recommend how we might prevent future oil spills. He then ordered a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling (which has now been overturned twice by the courts). In June, he asked Congress for $15 million to finance the commission. The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling convened its first public meetings in New Orleans this week to "hear directly from the people of the Gulf Coast whose lives and livelihoods have been so profoundly affected by the BP ...
BP Moves Up Date for Capping Busted Oil Well
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 8) -- BP is under mounting pressure from the White House to stop the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and hopes to completely shut off flow by later this month -- weeks earlier than the company's previous public forecasts. The White House is sending BP a series of written questions about its attempts to cap the well and has demanded that the company respond within 24 hours, Reuters reports. The head of BP's Gulf Coast restoration unit, Managing Director Bob Dudley, told The Wall Street Journal that "it's possible to be ready to stop the well between July 20 and July 27." But ...
Offshore Drilling Ban Nixed: Judge Calls Obama Edict 'Overbearing'
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIn stern and unsparing language, a noted federal trial judge in Louisiana Tuesday blocked the Obama administration from implementing its heavily publicized and politically charged sixth-month moratorium on offshore drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The Justice Department and the White House immediately announced that the ruling would be appealed in an effort to revive the moratorium, which was quickly issued on May 28 as the scope of the Gulf oil spill became more fully understood. "If some drilling equipment parts are flawed, U.S. District ...
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