"Federal regulators approved Wednesday the first new Gulf of Mexico oil well since President Barack Obama lifted a brief ban on drilling in shallow water, even while deepwater projects remain frozen after the massive BP spill.
The Minerals Management Service granted a new drilling permit sought by Bandon Oil and Gas for a site about 50 [...]
I just read this headline and cannot believe my eyes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080707/ap_on_re_us/wild_horses_euthanasia
I admit I have not read article yet, mainly because I hate news dealing with unnecessary death of animals. But unless these horses are sick or a danger to human beings, why destroy them???
If OIL has indeed reached its peak, and even if there’s still [...]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100513/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_poll
The poll also found that the public still supports the idea of drilling offshore for oil and gas. By 50 percent to 38 percent, more people favor increased coastal drilling for oil and gas than oppose it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080712/ap_on_re_us/gas_drilling
This time, the environmental nazis managed to get a federal court to rule against drilling for oil and gas in northern Michigan on 3 acres of a tract of land measuring almost 6000 acres, in large part because it might hurt the Kirtland’s Warbler, a small bird which is apparently more important to environmental whackos [...]
WASHINGTON – House Republicans on Thursday scuttled a bill that Democrats hoped would help lower gasoline prices by forcing the Energy Department to release 70 million barrels of oil — about a three-day supply — from the national stockpile.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_go_co/congress_energy;_ylt=AiqH_gP7nLKWRdX7ZsCrF3ys0NUE
They keep claiming that drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf will bring immediate relief–but as the [...]
Yahoo had this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices_51 and this: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gas14nov14,1,1475055.story?coll=la-headlines-business on its homepage news at the same time. I have heard election and Republican conspiracy theories but please don’t post a response like that without hard evidence.
Exxon Mobil says it has begun drilling at Alaska’s Point Thomson oil and gas field.
Patrick McGinn, a company spokesman, says drilling operations were launched Friday.
In February, Exxon returned eight of its Point Thomson leases that were part of 13 added to the field in 2002. Exxon had promised to drill wells and begin producing oil [...]
This from an article on U.S. Oilfield Deaths:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_on_re_us/oilfield_deaths;_ylt=Aut7FWxCweTuflAVBY9AtV9H2ocA
"A dramatic increase in drilling, spurred by record-breaking oil and natural gas prices. The number of workers in oil and gas jobs shot up from 290,000 in 2002 to 428,000 in 2007. In July 2002, 740 land-based oil and gas rigs were operating in the United States; today, [...]
READ FIRST:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080722/bs_afp/norwayoilpricetaxclimate
Norway is the 5th largest exporter of oil, yet there gas prices are even higher than ours. What is going on here? Clearly, the gas prices are NOT related to how much you drill in your own country…
ARLINGTON, Va. – Sen. John McCain said Monday the federal moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling should be lifted, and individual states given the right to pursue energy exploration in waters near their coasts.
McCain’s presidential rival, Sen. Barack Obama, opposes an end to the moratorium
The current drilling moratorium is a perennial cause for [...]
I read a news story about a US Judge blocking oil drilling in a Michigan forest http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080712/ap_on_re_us/gas_drilling
But I know lots of landowners who would love to have an oil well on their land if the money be in it… so why is oil drilling so hazadous to the environment>
The Democrats have already wrecked the US economy by forcing banks to make risky home loans to unqualified borrowers….now, the Democrats won’t to make the US more dependent on dictators with oil…can’t they see what Russia is doing to Europe?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090107/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_ukraine_russia_gas
I see on Yahoo Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.
Can anyone give a heads up on what to expect? Less drilling/more drilling?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081109/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama