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Promises on new OCS leasing tend to be backwards

04/19/2010
By Bob Tippee
Listening to the Obama administration discuss expanded Outer Continental Shelf leasing is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope. Everything seems backwards.The administration on Mar. 31 announced plans to proceed with leasing of federal acreage off Virginia and later to consider leasing elsewhere off the middle and southern Atlantic states. It also will include new acreage in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico in lease sales after 2012."Today we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration, but in ways that balance the need to harness domestic energy resources and the need to protect America's natural resources," Obama said.Interior Sec. Ken Salazar was mo...
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