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State, industry criticize Virginia's absence from 5-year OCS plan

12/12/2011
By Nick Snow
US Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar's two stated reasons for keeping a sale off Virginia out of the proposed 2012-17 Outer Continental Shelf program—lack of infrastructure and possible interference with military activities—make no sense, one of the state's top officials said. Witnesses from two oil and gas industry associations also criticized Salazar's decision as they testified Dec. 6 at a US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management hearing on the program's draft programmatic environmental impact statement. "As you well know, in regard to having the requisite infrastructure, it should be self-evident that [it] will develop around the process," Virginia Natural Resources Sec. Douglas ...
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