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Drill Off Alaska Coast? Gulf Mess Renews Debate
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A year after the disastrous Gulf oil spill, the prospect of a major accident in oil's next frontier - the icy waters off Alaska's north coast - has experts even more concerned. Mark Thiessen, AP A fishing boat returns to the harbor Friday in Cordova, Alaska, from Prince William Sound, the site of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. With no roads connecting remote coastal towns, storms and fog that can ground aircraft, no deepwater ports for ships and the nearest Coast Guard station about 1,000 miles away - it would be nearly impossible to respond on the scale that was ...
BP Gulf Oil Spill: A Look Back [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL NewsOn April 20, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered a massive explosion off the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers and releasing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Take a look back at the photos that captured the damage the oil spill caused to the Gulf's wildlife and industries. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=996772&pid=996771&uts=1303223363 ...
Opinion: End Obama's Policy of Higher Gas Prices
By not in system - AOL NewsGas prices are dangerously close to doubling since President Barack Obama was inaugurated. As American drivers and small-business owners feel the pain at the pump, he should reverse course and stop punishing consumers to promote a "green" agenda. Yes, the events in Egypt and Libya have affected global oil prices. But we suffered the highest gas prices for the month of December in our nation's history in 2010 -- before uprisings in the Middle East even began. Unilateral administration action is the first step toward providing economic relief during a fragile recovery. Another View on ...
Contrary to Popular Belief, Sarah Palin Isn't Mama Grizzly's Best Friend
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 22) -- Dogged Sarah Palin critic Andrew Sullivan recently unpacked the ex-Alaska governor's record on bears and found it doesn't mesh with the warmth she professes for them on her TLC reality show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska." "As she coos over them on TLC and anthropomorphizes them for the Tea Party, she tends not to remind people that as governor, she backed a bill called the 'Active Management -- Airborne Shooting' that allowed for aerial shooting of the bears for the first time in Alaska's history," writes Sullivan on his blog for The Atlantic. The bill, which died in the state Senate, ...
Obama Administration Lifts Gulf Drilling Ban
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(Oct. 12) -- The Obama administration today announced an early end to the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling off American shores, but it has added tough safety rules for the drilling companies and a regime of government tests that could delay the start of new operations for weeks or months. The drilling ban had been put in place following the April 20 explosion at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico and was set to end Nov. 30. But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the moratorium would end sooner because the government was satisfied with its new oil and gas safety reforms, the improved state ...
Greenpeace Activists in Chocolate Sauce Protest Deep-Water Drilling
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(Oct. 4) -- Occasionally, you'll hear of people slathering themselves in chocolate sauce because they're feeling a bit kinky -- not because they're making a political statement. Bikini-clad activists in France covered themselves in fake oil to voice a simple message: Oil and water don't mix. Demonstrators from the environmental group Greenpeace put on bathing suits and doused themselves with mock petroleum on Saturday to protest deep-water drilling and a controversial plan to extract oil from oil-bearing sands. According to the Greenpeace website, the demonstrators gathered in Paris, ...
Republicans the Party of No? Au Contraire!
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Now That the Well Is Capped, Should BP Ever Be Allowed to Open It Again?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 6) -- You'd think that after suffering the worst accidental oil spill in history, the rush to drill more new holes in the ocean would be tempered somewhat. But for an oil-addicted planet, simply turning away from the reserves still locked beneath BP's freshly sealed Macondo well may prove too difficult to endure. With the cement from Thursday's static kill operation still not dry, questions are already arising about what will happen to one of the biggest oil discoveries in U.S. history. As reported by The Associated Press, approximately 1.9 billion gallons of oil still remain in the ...
New Offshore Drilling Moratorium Ordered by Obama Administration
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe Obama administration, trying a new approach, is battling to maintain a moratorium on deep-water offshore drilling, despite two court setbacks and protests in the region that the work-stoppage will kill jobs. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has issued a new moratorium that is not based on water depth but rather on the type of rig or floating facility used for deep-sea drilling activities. If it survives legal scrutiny, the ban will remain in effect until Nov. 30. Salazar said evidence is growing "every day of the industry's inability in the deep water to contain a catastrophic blowout, ...
Source: Obama Extends Stop on Deepwater Wells
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (May 27) -- Escalating his administration's response to the disastrous Gulf oil spill, President Barack Obama plans to announce Thursday that a moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling permits will be continued for six months while a presidential commission investigates, a White House aide said. Controversial lease sales off the coast of Alaska will be delayed pending the results of the commission's investigation, and lease sales planned in the Western Gulf and off the coast of Virginia will be canceled, the aide said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of a midday Obama news ...
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