The Interior Secretary effectively ended any hope for drilling on the outer continental shelf today.
The Obama administration put the brakes Tuesday on a push to expand oil
and gas drilling off America’s coasts and promised to speed development
of offshore wind farms.Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced
he will extend public comments for six months on a last-minute proposal
by the Bush administration to open swaths of the California, Alaska,
Atlantic and Gulf coasts for drilling. He also ordered Interior
Department staff to compile data on the potential benefits from oil,
gas and renewable development offshore and pledged public hearings on
drilling, including one to be held on the Pacific Coast.Salazar also said the department would finalize guidelines for
developing wind and other renewable energy development, which Bush
officials did not complete before leaving office.Salazar called the Bush drilling plan a “headlong rush” based on bad information and tilted toward “old energy.”
“The previous administration,” Salazar added, “was so intent on opening
additional areas for drilling offshore that it torpedoed renewable
energy.” Link
For all the green nitwits out there, I truly hope your car runs on wind, because that is all this administration is going to deliver in terms of energy.
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