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...shale deposits which require expensive hydraulic horizontal drilling (fracking); and on to the really expensive off shore oil and gas in Brazil's Santos Basin, at depths from which oil has not previously been produced.Michael Klare, author...
...has also blocked Keystone, hampered, or denied federal oil and gas exploration in the Bakken Field, denied many off-shore oil permits, and has hamstrung our economy, with a health care system, that is burdensome for businesses,and for...
...the Legislature and money from Congress. The federal money probably would come from a fund that uses royalties from off-shore oil and gas drilling to buy land for national forests. Identifying parcels outside the BWCA that all sides could agree...
...The power plant idea was part of what Sand calls his seven-point American energy policy. It included increasing off-shore oil drilling permits and refinery capacity, approving two new transcontinental pipelines, and making the Environmental...
...There is enough known uranium sources to last at least a thousand years. Time and time again Congress has blocked off shore oil drilling. The same goes to building new oil refineries. The current gas pump prices can clearly be attributed to...
...resources and break this dependence on foreign oil. The politicians have stopped the building of refineries, drilling of off shore oil, and allowed the prices to rise to unforgivable levels. Our elected officials must unite for us and stop acting only...
Spurred on by Sen. McCain's July 28 promise that off shore oil "could be exploited in a matter of months," the clamor to start poking more expensive holes in the ocean floor has reached a...
...than a decade ago, established a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, a move that would have shielded profits from off-shore oil drilling operations that Harken was starting near Bahrain, an island nation in the Persian Gulf, if the work had...
...Current DOI offers in Alaska have attracted major support. Shell Oil alone has bid $2.1 billion in recent Alaska off shore oil sales. For onshore, Secretary Ken Salazar said on February 9 that the DOI in 2010 will hold 38 oil and natural gas...
The recent Gulf oil spill has caused a slowdown in U.S. off shore oil drilling, as we assess the risks. Cuba doesn't share our concern. Spanish oil company, Repsol, will begin test drilling...