The federal government last week announced it was moving forward with
an aggressive five-year plan to expand offshore drilling for oil and
natural gas, but a vast, three million acre track of ocean off the
mid-Atlantic Coast is not part of the short-term plan.
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM) last week announced it had completed its analysis of a
five-year plan from 2012 to 2017 to begin exploring and ultimately
tapping into the nation’s vast oil and natural gas reserves in several
areas around the country in a continued effort to wean the U.S. off its
dependence on foreign oil. Conspicuously absent from the five-year plan,
however, is a vast tract totaling nearly three million acres off the
mid-Atlantic coast just about 50 miles from Ocean City.
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1 comment:
We have a moratorium on extracting oil in the Gulf but we are studying off shore drilling in the Atlantic? That's total BS.After the oil companies spent billions on planning to drill off the coast of Alasks this same government entity shut the project down for fears of air pullution.They are exploring the Atlantic but won't let us pipe oil from Canada?The government again is not telling the truth and spoon feeding us BS because they think we are stupid and believe anything they send our way.
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