Posts Tagged ‘drilling’
Deep Gulf drilling thrives 18 mos. after BP spill (AP)
AP – Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean’s surface than ever before.
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Bachmann says she’d consider Everglades drilling (AP)
AP – Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Sunday that she would consider oil and natural gas drilling in the Everglades if it can be done without harming the environment.
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Sportsmen monitor gas drilling in Marcellus Shale (AP)
AP – Fishermen are gearing up and hunters are taking aim at Marcellus Shale gas drilling.
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Senate blocks GOP bid to speed offshore drilling (AP)
AP – A GOP bid to expand and hasten offshore oil drilling in the face of $4-a-gallon gasoline prices suffered an overwhelming defeat in the Senate on Wednesday, four days after President Barack Obama directed his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production.
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President Obama will increase oil and gas drilling in the US in attempt to lower fuel prices
President Obama announced Saturday that he was ramping up oil and gas drilling in the U.S. – but city drivers fed up with sky high gas prices said it was too little, too late.
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Interior allows some suspended drilling to resume (AP)
AP – The Obama administration said Monday it will allow 13 companies to resume deepwater drilling without any additional environmental scrutiny, just months after saying it would require strict reviews for new drilling in the wake of the BP oil spill.
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Obama rejects drilling in eastern Gulf of Mexico (AP)
AP – Pointing to the BP blowout and risks of a new environmental disaster, the Obama administration reversed itself Wednesday and promised not to pursue offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or anywhere else along the nation’s East Coast.
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