Plan for Coastal (and Rocky Mountain)Drilling Emerges w/o clean air/EPA

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-drill3oct03,0,3909533.story?track=tottext

Plan for Coastal Drilling Emerges
Pointing to Katrina's hit to fuel supplies, some in Congress seek to diversify by loosening a ban covering areas such as offshore California.
By Richard Simon and Kenneth R. Weiss
Times Staff Writers

October 3, 2005

WASHINGTON — Citing hurricane damage to the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico, key lawmakers are trying to relax a decades-old federal ban on new drilling off California and the Atlantic Seaboard and to encourage energy prospecting in the Rocky Mountains.

Congressional proposals also aim to waive some air pollution rules to encourage expansion of oil refineries and to authorize oil drilling beneath Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Yet opponents in Congress point to the 191,000 barrels of oil that have gushed into the gulf from ruptured pipelines and hurricane-battered oil facilities as a reminder of the difficult-to-contain disasters that can accompany offshore production. Spills brought about by Hurricane Katrina amount to about 80% of the oil that despoiled Alaskan waters when the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in 1989.

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It would allow new exemptions from environmental rules, shorten public comment periods and limit lawsuits over leasing decisions made by the Bureau of Land Management.
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It would allow a waiver of the National Historic Preservation Act on private lands, so that oil and gas development could proceed without assessing potential effects on Native American burial or archeological sites.

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The above is the - Last week approved by the House Resources Committee Bill to opt-out of the 1981 Mass/California (expanded in 1985 to include most of the rest of U.S. coastal waters) moratorium Bill - a moratorium that has been renewed every year since.

[papau]

1. Forgot to mention "coastal" becomes Nationwide if drilling for Natural Gas

A surprise amendment to Pombo's legislation, by Rep. John E. Peterson (R-Pa.), would lift the offshore moratorium nationwide for companies seeking to drill for natural gas.

[FreeMason]

2. You whine too much

Get over it...you pollute the air every time you fart.

Humans use the earth, it's what we do, using the earth changes the earth, you want to know what the largest polluter is?

Coral...they have changed the earth so significantly, creating an erosion cycle that has become the most effective transferer of energy compared to any other planet in the Solar System.

Another polluter...trees.

They take in their precious carbon-dioxide and replace it with O2.

Thankfully polluters such as ourselves take O2 and replace it with CO2.

All these changes are not friendly, it killed the sulfer-eating dominant life-forms.

The changes are always adaptable though...

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Dude, aren't you late for an Intelligent Design symposium somewhere?

Enjoy your stay, and may it be a short one. :rofl: