Posts Tagged ‘drilling’
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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Citing BP, Obama rejects East Coast oil drilling (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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Obama: No offshore drilling in East Coast waters (AP)
AP – 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.
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Back in business: US lifts deep water drilling ban (AP)
AP – The U.S. is back in the deep water oil-drilling business. The question now is when work will resume. The Obama administration, under heavy pressure from the oil industry and Gulf states and with elections nearing, lifted the moratorium that it imposed last April in the wake of the disastrous BP oil spill.
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Gov’t: Offshore oil drilling ban to be lifted (AP)
AP – The Obama administration is lifting the six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed after the BP oil spill, officials said Tuesday.
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