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Obama Expected to Announce Today Cancelling of VA Lease Sale 220!

From Politico:

“The President will discuss the conclusions of the 30-day safety review on offshore drilling he directed Secretary Salazar to conduct. He will announce standards to strengthen oversight of the industry and enhance safety, a first step in a process that the independent Presidential Commission will continue. While the Commission performs its work to determine how to prevent this from ever happening again, the moratorium on permits to drill new deepwater wells will continue for a period of six months. In addition, the planned exploration off the coast of Alaska in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas will be delayed pending the Commission’s review, and the August lease sale in the Western Gulf will be cancelled. The lease sale off the coast of Virginia will also be canceled due to environmental concerns and concerns raised by the Defense Department. Secretary Salazar briefed President Obama and senior advisors on the report last evening in the Oval Office.”

Press conference at 12:45.

 

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2 Responses to “Obama Expected to Announce Today Cancelling of VA Lease Sale 220!”

  1. LittleDavid Says:
    May 27th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    Well, deep water well, this does not win praises from me. Just what additional proposals will come from the Obama administration to lesson our dependence on foreign oil? And just which of these proposals will environmentalists themselves be willing to follow?

    OK OK, some environmentalists propose that if we do not all actually become Amish, we should follow their lead. I am unwilling to follow them there and neither are most environmentalists. We all still value our mobility and our internet access don’t we?

  2. David Campbell Says:
    May 28th, 2010 at 9:28 am

    Gov. McDonnell has already responded. According to today’s Virginian-Pilot:

    McDonnell “campaigned last year on paying for road improvements in part with proceeds from oil and gas drilling. While he respects the president’s decision and the need for delay and investigation, McDonnell said, ‘I do not believe outright cancellation was the only alternative given the fact that this sale was not due to occur until two years from now, and actual drilling would likely take place years after that.’”

    Didn’t McDonnell just admit that his plan to fund transportation with revenue from offshore drilling was a sham?

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