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douglas9

(4,359 posts)
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 09:52 AM Apr 2017

Trump signs executive order to expand drilling off Americas coasts: Were opening it up.

President Trump signed an executive order Friday that aims to expand offshore drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, as well as assess whether energy exploration can take place in marine sanctuaries in the Pacific and Atlantic.

The “America-First Offshore Energy Strategy” will make millions of acres of federal waters eligible for oil and gas leasing, just four months after President Barack Obama withdrew these areas from possible development. In late December, Obama used a little-known provision in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to bar energy exploration in large portions of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, and a string of canyons in the Atlantic stretching from Massachusetts to Virginia.

At the signing in the Roosevelt Room, where the audience included Vice President Pence and members of Congress, Trump emphasized that the U.S. has abundant offshore oil and gas reserves, “but the federal government has kept 94 percent of these offshore areas closed for exploration and production, and when they say closed, they mean closed.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/28/trump-signs-executive-order-to-expand-offshore-drilling-and-analyze-marine-sanctuaries-oil-and-gas-potential/?utm_term=.05a6cb257884

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Trump signs executive order to expand drilling off Americas coasts: Were opening it up. (Original Post) douglas9 Apr 2017 OP
Better go to the beach now 2naSalit Apr 2017 #1
EVERY DAY.... PearliePoo2 Apr 2017 #2

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
2. EVERY DAY....
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 12:08 PM
Apr 2017

Every fucking day, he has to destroy something.

Come on FBI, Rep. Schiff, Rep. Cummings, Senator Warner and all real American patriots. Put the entire corrupt cabal behind bars!

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