Offshore Oil Drilling

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/anti-arctic-drilling-activists-white-house_n_1518664.html?1337109177 Lucia Graves lucia@huffingtonpost.com Posted: 05/15/2012 3:12 pm Updated: 05/15/2012 3:36 pm WASHINGTON — Because sometimes to get your point across you need to dress up as an Arctic Tern, scores of anti-drilling activists on Tuesday gathered outside the White House dressed in ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.chron.com/business/article/Obama-challenges-oil-companies-to-drill-existing-3561090.php Houston Chronicle: Obama challenges oil companies to drill existing leases By Jennifer A. Dlouhy Published 08:37 p.m., Tuesday, May 15, 2012 WASHINGTON – The White House on Tuesday pushed back against the oil and gas industry’s claims that the Obama administration is blocking domestic ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html?_r=2&smid=fb-share Published: May 9, 2012 GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.” If Canada ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/05/04/46224.htm By CAMERON LANGFORD HOUSTON (CN) – Exposure to chemical dispersants BP used in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill left a commercial diver with seizures, unable to walk and going blind – and two members of his dive team committed suicide, the man claims in Harris County Court. David Hogan and his wife sued BP and NALCO Co. – ...Click Here to Read More.

Friday April 27, 2012 Atlantic City, NJ – On Friday, April 27th, in Atlantic City, the United States Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM), held the last in a series of East Coast hearings on a proposal to blast seismic shockwaves from Florida to the Delaware Bay searching for offshore oil to drill. The hearing was held at 1pm in room 301 of the Atlantic City Convention Center. ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/your-world-cavuto/2012/04/27/house-democrats-push-probe-oil-market-speculators Fox News Published April 26, 2012 | Your World Cavuto | Neil Cavuto Special Guests: Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. This is a rush transcript from “Your World,” April 26, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Watch the latest video at FoxNews.com NEIL ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/26/1086617/-Gulf-Coast-Waters-Closed-to-Shrimping THU APR 26, 2012 AT 10:34 AM PDT “We’re continuing to pull up oil in our nets. People who live here know better than to swim in or eat what comes out of our waters.” The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources acted this week to close waters along the Gulf Coast to ...Click Here to Read More.

http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/223191-action-needed-on-drilling-reform By Bob Graham and William Reilly – 04/23/12 06:52 PM ET Every few months we seem to read about yet another offshore oil or gas rig leaking. Some have presented significant risks to the safety of the crews and even, in the case of the Total gas rig in the North Sea, to nearby rigs. Those of us who investigated the BP ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/22/v-fullstory/2762927/exploratory-oil-drilling-off-cuba.html Posted on Sunday, 04.22.12 Fears are renewed as a search for oil begins near Cuba. But some think chances of a spill hitting the Keys is low BY CAMMY CLARK CCLARK@MIAMIHERALD.COM KEY WEST — In Cuba’s North Basin, the Spanish company Repsol has begun risky exploration for oil and natural ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/opinion/a-stain-that-wont-wash-away.html?_r=2 Published: April 19, 2012 TWO years after a series of gambles and ill-advised decisions on a BP drilling project led to the largest accidental oil spill in United States history and the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, no one has been held accountable. Sure, there have been about $8 billion in ...Click Here to Read More.

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/04/heavy-metal-oysters -By Alyssa Battistoni | Fri Apr. 20, 2012 1:40 PM PDT On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, evidence of the spill’s ongoing impacts on Gulf people and ecosystems continues to mount. As if eyeless shrimp, toxic beaches, and dead dolphins weren’t bad enough, a new study suggests that Gulf oysters ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/19/deepwater-horizon-aftermath-dolphin-worth?intcmp=122 Two years after the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, BP and US authorities wrangle over how much should be paid in damages Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent Follow @suzyji guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 April 2012 09.59 EDT A dead dolphin marked with spray paint on Queen Bess Island at ...Click Here to Read More.

For Immediate Release: Friday, April 20, 2012 Contact: Clean Ocean Action, 732-872-0111 Public Hearing set for Friday, April 27th, 2012 at 1pm at Atlantic City Convention Center Sandy Hook, NJ – On Friday, April 27th, in Atlantic City, the United States Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM), is holding the last in a series of East Coast hearings on their recent proposal to blast ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.miamiherald.com/oilspill/ INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS * Gulf coast habitats * Methods to contain leaks * How slick might spread * Oil political money * Understanding effects Experts: Another BP-style Gulf blowout all too possible Much more needs to be done to lower the risks of another offshore oil disaster like the BP blowout two ...Click Here to Read More.

Published on Thursday, April 19, 2012 by Robert C. Koehler The AP story on military maneuvers in the Arctic reads like the gleeful report of a mugging. “To the world’s military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasure trove of resources, ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nature.com/news/deep-water-drilling-remains-a-risky-business-1.10464 Donald Boesch argues that the lessons learned from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill should be enshrined in legislation before they fade from memory. 17 April 2012 Two years after the blowout of the BP oil well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the United States is largely failing to act on ...Click Here to Read More.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/17/yergin-gas-solar-wind/?iid=HP_LN%3Ehttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/17/yergin-gas-solar-wind/?iid=HP_LN April 17, 2012: 5:00 AM ET Energy expert Daniel Yergin talks about the impact fracking will have on renewables. Interview by Brian Dumaine, senior editor-at-large Daniel Yergin FORTUNE — Daniel Yergin, author of the new bestseller The Quest: ...Click Here to Read More.

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP92ef5107548c46d886c4ec0384522c82.html Updated April 17, 2012, 3:00 p.m. ET Associated Press WASHINGTON – A look at where President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stand on energy and environmental issues: OBAMA: Ordered temporary moratorium on deep-water drilling after the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico but has ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/04/201241682318260912.html Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause. Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 18 Apr 2012 03:16 New Orleans, LA – “The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. “And in my 20 years working on red ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.emagazine.com/daily-news/bp-spill-two-years-after/ April 15, 2012 | Sharon Kelly | A wide range of species, from dolphins to coral, are still dealing with the long-term results of the spill, which unleashed nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. © U.S. Fish & Wldlife Service This week will mark the second anniversary of the explosion at BP’s Deepwater Horizon ...Click Here to Read More.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303624004577339943866694420.html April 12, 2012, 7:47 p.m. ET Marine Studies Raise Fresh Concern After Early Fears of Environmental Catastrophe From BP Disaster Failed to Materialize By TOM FOWLER Rush Jagoe for The Wall Street Journal David Farizo fishes in Lafitte, a community in Louisiana’s wetlands. New research points out possible ill ...Click Here to Read More.

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/04/12/industry-asks-for-more-time-to-comply-with-drilling-pollution-mandates/ Posted on April 12, 2012 at 2:21 pm by Jennifer A. Dlouhy API President Jack Gerard speaks at an October 2011 news conference in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Two of the oil industry’s leading trade groups today implored federal regulators for more time to comply with ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/oil-from-deepwater-horizon-spill-still-causing-damage-in-gulf-2-years/1225134 TampaBay.com: Oil from Deepwater Horizon spill still causing damage in gulf 2 years later, scientists find By Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writer In Print: Sunday, April 15, 2012 Geologist Rip Kirby examined the skin of a graduate student who swam in the gulf and then ...Click Here to Read More.

Protesters at the London AGM criticise the company’s use of a chemical dispersant and say the ecological disaster is far from over Madeleine Cuff guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 April 2012 11.07 EDT Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Indigenous Environmental Network at a protest outside the BP annual general meeting at the ExCel Centre in London. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images Activists ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2012/04/17/3 Phil Taylor, E&E reporter Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 While federal agencies and industry have made significant safety reforms after the worst oil spill in the nation’s history, Congress has failed to pass a single bill that would help prevent another catastrophe, according to a report from the former members of a presidential spill ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/learning-lessons-from-deepwater-horizon/1224920 By Frank Alcock, special to the Times In Print: Sunday, April 15, 2012 Editor’s note: April 20 will be the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. On April 2, 2010, President Barack Obama defended his decision to open up new areas to offshore drilling by claiming that “oil rigs ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1224936.ece In Print: Monday, April 16, 2012 Above, crew members work in June 2010 to clean up spilled oil from Deepwater Horizon that washed ashore at Pensacola Beach. At left, the Deepwater Horizon rig burns on April 21, 2010. Eleven workers on the rig were killed and more than 200 million gallons of oil were spilled before the well was killed ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.adn.com/2012/04/15/2424853/inupiat-tribal-leader-wins-large.html Cannon claims $150,000 award, continues fight to deny Shell Oil. By LISA DEMER Anchorage Daily News Published: April 16th, 2012 12:56 AM Last Modified: April 16th, 2012 12:56 AM Her father was a Point Hope whaling captain. Her mother taught her how to butcher the bowhead and care for the meat. The family depended on the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nottheanswer.org/ APRIL 16TH, 2012 On June 10, the Emerald Coast Chapter was one of the first local volunteer organizations to begin a Gulf Beach Water Quality Monitoring Program in response to the minimal efforts made by state and federal agencies to monitor against the dangers of the BP oil spill. Local surfers and swimmers have suffered from burning eyes and mouths, respiratory ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/actionlocal/story/Public-meetings-on-offshore-oil-exploration-held/K4fJxZH_S0G3rO3IbvyBXg.cspx Action News Fox 30 WAWS Ch 47 WTEV Monday April 16th, 2012 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The debate over offshore drilling heats up once again, this time in Jacksonville. Just last week, the Obama Administration announced its opening the Atlantic to seismic ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/nelson-48847–.html April 11, 2012 9:12 PM TOM McLAUGHLIN / Daily News View a slideshow of Nelson’s visit. » FORT WALTON BEACH – U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson told local leaders Wednesday that he holds a special place in his heart for them for standing with him in 2009 to oppose opening Florida waters to offshore drilling “when forces were ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/lloyds-london-warns-risks-arctic-oil-drilling?newsfeed=true Insurance market joins environmentalists in highlighting risks of drilling in fragile region as $100bn investment is predicted Julia Kollewe and Terry Macalister The Guardian, Wednesday 11 April 2012 The report, by Chatham House analysts, warns: ‘Other than the direct release of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/oil-drills-close-on-pristine-reef/story-e6frgczx-1226323323869 ANDREW BURRELL From: The Australian April 11, 2012 12:00AM OIL giants Woodside Petroleum and Shell are about to launch a $350 million drilling campaign within 10km of the Rowley Shoals, a premier diving spot off the Kimberley coast that the West Australian government ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.democrats.com/stand-up-to-big-oil?cid= I just read and signed the petition: “Stand up to Big Oil.” Please take a moment to read about this important issue, and sign the petition. Please sign here: http://www.democrats.com/stand-up-to-big-oil?source=dquirolo%40gmail.com. DeeVon Quirolo, Petition Big oil has picked their candidate-and it’s not Barack Obama. Why? ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.thedutchharborfisherman.com/article/1214shell_wins_injunction_greenpeace_looks_at April 6th 2:56 pm | Jim Paulin Shell has won an injunction requiring Greenpeace to keep its distance, 1,000 meters from oil rigs and 500 meters from support boats nationwide, and now the Coast Guard is making a more modest proposal for a 25-yard “safety zone” restricting movements around the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/04/bill-nelsons-camp-calls-connie-mack-out-for-oil-drilling-flip-flop.html Posted by Marc Caputo at 4:37 PM on Friday, Apr. 6 in Bill Nelson, Connie Mack | Permalink Sen. Bill Nelson’s adviser, Dan McLaughlin, declined all day and night to comment on yesterday’s story about challenger Connie Mack’s pipeline-petition plan, but ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.keysnet.com/2012/04/07/437124/keys-oil-spill-drill-draws-scores.html By KEVIN WADLOW kwadlow@keynoter.com Posted – Saturday, April 07, 2012 10:30 AM EDT A week before the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Florida Keys emergency planners gather to confront a second oil spill. Fortunately, the spill this coming Thursday is entirely theoretical. The response ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2012/04/bp_atlantis_whistleblower_alle_1.html Times-Picayune Published: Thursday, April 05, 2012, 11:42 AM Updated: Thursday, April 05, 2012, 11:46 AM By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune A whistleblower who has complained for years that BP didn’t maintain proper engineering documents aboard its Atlantis oil platform, in violation of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.newsherald.com/news/drilling-101686-federal-agency.html Panama City, Florida April 04, 2012 07:00:41 PM RANDAL YAKEY / News Herald Writer @ryakey Get involved: Comments and opinions on this issue can be emailed to boemegomeis@BOEM.gov PANAMA CITY BEACH – “Drill, baby, drill” may be coming to a coastal area near you. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/31/dolphins-sick-deepwater-oil-spill New studies show impact of BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster on dolphins and other marine wildlife may be far worse than feared Peter Beaumont guardian.co.uk, Saturday 31 March 2012 12.15 BST A new study of dolphins living close to the site of North America’s worst ever oil spill – the BP Deepwater ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/u-s-agency-stops-seismic-tests-in-gulf-of-mexico-worries-about-dolphins WORLD APR. 03, 2012 – 06:07AM JST ( 0 ) NEW ORLEANS - With sick and dead dolphins turning up along Louisiana’s coast, federal regulators are curbing an oil and natural gas exploration company from using seismic equipment that sends out underwater pulses known to ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.chron.com/business/article/Bromwich-Offshore-drilling-regulators-need-to-3448986.php By Jennifer A. Dlouhy Updated 06:57 a.m., Sunday, April 1, 2012 Michael Bromwich testifies in 2010 about overhauling the federal agencies that oversee offshore drilling. Now he urges more aggressive enforcement action. Photo: Jay Westcott / Bloomberg News WASHINGTON – The former prosecutor who ...Click Here to Read More.

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-03-26/us/us_gulf-oil-coral_1_deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-coral-communities?_s=PM:US OIL SPILL March 26, 2012|By Matt Smith, CNN * Researchers found coral at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico covered with “black scum” and gooey brown mixture of materials. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill damaged coral formations deep beneath the surface of the Gulf ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/03/30-3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 30, 2012 1:37 PM CONTACT: Friends of The Earth Kelly Trout, 202-222-0722, ktrout@foe.org Michal Rosenoer, 202-222-0734, mrosenoer@foe.org WASHINGTON – March 30 – Legislation introduced yesterday in both the U.S. House and Senate would provide liability protection for oil companies, gas retailers and engine ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/03/no-sign-of-oyster-recovery-two-years-after-bp-oil-spill/ BY DAN FLYNN | MAR 30, 2012 With the second anniversary of the BP oil spill fast approaching, attention is once again returning to the damaged Gulf environment, especially to its greatly diminished oyster production. The worst man-made environmental disaster in U.S. history put 200 million gallons of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/23555 Sustainable Business 03/29/2012 03:42 PM Interior to Begin Seismic Exploration for Oil Drilling Off East Coast SustainableBusiness.com News The Department of Interior announced yesterday that it’s moving forward to open offshore oil and gas exploration off our Mid- and South Atlantic coastline. To determine where ...Click Here to Read More.

https://www.data.boem.gov/homepg/data_center/other/gmaillist/subscribe.asp U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region SPECIAL INFORMATION The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is the Federal agency responsible for managing offshore energy and mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). A ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iv89QKpZjnaph6QdlnsDtby41ltA?docId=82dca068b01949aeba9d768e2b79c8fd Associated Press Report: Oil spill culprit for heavy toll on coral By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press – 52 minutes ago NEW ORLEANS (AP) – After months of laboratory work, scientists say they can definitively finger oil from BP’s blown-out well as the culprit ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120322/us-cuba-oil-drilling/ JENNIFER KAY | March 22, 2012 05:40 PM EST | MIAMI – If a future oil spill in the Caribbean Sea threatens American shores, a new federal plan obtained by The Associated Press would hinge on cooperation from neighboring foreign governments. Now that Cuba is the neighbor drilling for oil, cooperation is hard to ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Oil/6084508 Washington (Platts)–22Mar2012/1237 pm EDT/1637 GMT After defending his approach to oil and gas development for five weeks, President Barack Obama traveled to the heart of the US oil pipeline network Thursday and promised to accelerate permitting for TransCanada’s Oklahoma-to-Texas pipeline. Obama signed a memorandum ...Click Here to Read More.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46840201/#46840201 NBC Nightly News March 23, 2012 Dolphins still sick from BP oil spill Scientists say the dolphin population in Louisiana’s Barataria Bay, one of the areas hit hardest and longest by the BP oil spill, are severely ill. NBC’s Anne Thompson ...Click Here to Read More.

Published on Thursday, March 22, 2012 by Common Dreams Obama: indefinite ‘development of oil and gas infrastructure’ - Common Dreams staff Today, President Obama has endorsed a southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline. “As long as I’m president, I’m going to keep encouraging the development of oil and gas infrastructure,” Obama said in a speech in ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.lcv.org/act/ Gene Karpinski, League of Conservation Voters 9:00 AM (2 hours ago) March 24th, 2012 Dear DeeVon, End Big Oil Handouts Tell your senators: Stand up for the American people, not Big Oil. Did you know that over the past decade, the big five oil companies – BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell – have earned more than $1 trillion in profits? At the same ...Click Here to Read More.

Contributions to Coral-list discussion posted March 22, 2012 Hi, I’m another Canadian reef scientist (wow! there are at least two of us). I support Mike Risk’s description of tar sands oil and the situation in Canada. I have not had the opportunity to speak directly to our government, although I’d love to take our Prime Minister on a dive on a coral reef. I have previously ...Click Here to Read More.

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http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/22/10811855-drillers-environmentalists-not-buying-obamas-energy-pitch Mandel Ngan / AFP – Getty Images President Barack Obama speaks at the TransCanada Stillwater pipe yard in Cushing, Okla., on Thursday. FirstRead on Obama’s support for Keystone’s southern leg Data show increasing US oil supply won’t lower prices Keystone ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.ogj.com/articles/2012/03/boem-seeks-comments-on-proposed-eastern-gulf-lease-sales.html?cmpid=EnlDailyMarch192012 WASHINGTON, DC, Mar. 19 03/19/2012 By Nick Snow OGJ Washington Editor The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it will open a public comment period and hold four public meetings concerning two proposed oil and gas lease sales in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. OCS Lease ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120317/WIRE/120319638/1033/news?Title=How-an-oil-and-gas-boom-is-interrupting-greening-of-America By CAROLINE BAUM Published: Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 16, 2012 at 10:18 p.m. Anecdotes are no substitute for hard data. But when they start to reach a critical mass and they all tell the same story, you know something ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-15/bp-whistleblower-seeks-immediate-trial-in-atlantis-safety-case.html By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk – Mar 15, 2012 9:01 PM PT Fri Mar 16 04:01:01 GMT 2012 BP Plc (BP\)’s Atlantis facility remains unsafe, according to a whistle-blower who said in a court filing that the company’s second-largest oil producer in the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/18/u-s-oil-executives-trapped-in-brazil-following-court-order/ March 18, 2012 Published: 11:27 AM 03/18/2012 By Gregg Re George Buck, president of Chevron’s subsidiary in Brazil, speaks to media in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday Nov. 21, 2011. Rio de Janeiro state’s environment secretary, Carlos Minc, says Brazil is expected to fine Chevron nearly $28 ...Click Here to Read More.

http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2012/03/suit_challenges_mississippi_de.html Published: Friday, March 16, 2012, 6:13 AM By Harlan Kirgan, Mississippi Press PASCAGOULA, Mississippi — A lawsuit filed by two environmental groups seeks to halt implementation of Mississippi Development Authority seismic and leasing rules for the state’s offshore waters. The Sierra Club and ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57398631/activists-protest-finnish-arctic-drilling/ March 16, 2012 6:35 AM HELSINKI – Greenpeace activists have boarded two Finnish icebreakers in Helsinki to protest oil and gas exploration in the Arctic Ocean. Some 17 demonstrators boarded the icebreakers while others clambered onto cranes with banners demanding that Shell Oil Co. suspend plans to ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/2947c360f0ce4c0aa112ff8617ca7404/MS–Offshore-Drilling-Mississippi/ Columbus, Indiana THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First Posted: March 15, 2012 – 12:05 pm Last Updated: March 15, 2012 – 12:06 pm JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Sierra Club and The Gulf Restoration Network have asked a Hinds County judge to block the state from enacting new ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=652182 Malaysia March 14, 2012 17:11 PM HAVANA, March 14 (Bernama) — Cuba has announced new customs regulations in a bid to boost offshore oil drilling in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Gulf of Mexico. The new rules which regulate personnel, goods and vehicles involved in oil exploration activities would take effect Thursday, ...Click Here to Read More.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/215981-oil-spill-commission By Andrew Restuccia – 03/14/12 10:47 AM ET Members of the national oil spill commission are reuniting to monitor the federal government’s progress in implementing a series of drilling safety recommendations put forward by the panel last year. The seven-member commission, which was tasked by President Obama with ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ibds7AqeOg3lh7BVXKW_UFjG2FAQ?docId=N1110971331747921741A (UKPA) – 5 hours ago March 15th, 2012 Oil companies have defended their plans for how they would respond to a oil spill in the Arctic in the face of accusations they were just “guesswork”. Scottish-based Cairn Energy and oil giant Shell appeared before the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.indypendent.org/2012/03/13/tough-oil-world ISSUE 174 Feb 22 – Mar 20, 2012 BY MICHAEL KLARE MARCH 13, 2012 Oil prices are now higher than they have ever been — except for a few frenzied moments before the global economic meltdown of 2008. Many immediate factors are contributing to this surge, including Iran’s threats to block oil shipping in the Persian Gulf, fears ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-oil-20120313,0,5578659.story The Obama administration claims ‘significant progress’ in cutting foreign oil imports and increasing U.S. production. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar discusses the federal energy report at a Washington news conference. (Carolyn Kaster, Associated Press / March 12, 2012) By Neela Banerjee, ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.vcstar.com/photos/2012/mar/10/159788/ Sanders: House energy bill threatens our fragile coastline By Alan Sanders Posted March 10, 2012 at 3 p.m. The recently passed House transportation and energy bill brings back an old threat of offshore oil spills that has been in the public mind since the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. In the documentary “Stories of the Spill” produced ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.belizemarinetrec.com/2012/03/02/referendum-says-no-to-belize-offshore-oil-exploration/ by Ken on March 2, 2012 COALITION RELEASES REFERENDUM NUMBERS Yesterday was a busy day for the Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage as they held the People’s Referendum, as a way to give a voice to many who were silenced when signatures were rejected from a petition to host a national ...Click Here to Read More.

http://ecowatch.org/2012/109-organizations-speak-out-against-obamas-support-for-fracking/ What is Obama fracking thinking????? DV 3-05-2012 Environmental Working Group On March 5, more than 100 organizations—including environmental, religious and public health groups—expressed concern about President Obama’s endorsement of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas drilling in his recent State ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/01/the_driller_in_chief MICHAEL LEVI Foreign Policy MARCH 1, 2012 (many weblinks in original) It was a strange scene even by the standards of an odd primary season. Rick Santorum, fresh off a narrow loss in Michigan, started waving about a hunk of jet-black rock during his concession speech on Tuesday night, Feb 28. “Yeah, this is oil,” ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i-tw3r6tLDJiitG8gx4zMFX1aTcQ?docId=79dd4556994c46808cecaecf65ba58fe By JULIE PACE, Associated Press – 53 minutes ago. 3/2/12 NEW YORK (AP) – President Barack Obama, turning his political sights on snowy New Hampshire, demanded that Congress eliminate oil and gas company subsidies that he called an outrageous government ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/breakingviews-drilling-alone-wont-fulfil-cheap-us-oil-dreams/ 24 Feb 2012 18:17 Source: Reuters // Reuters (The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) By Christopher Swann NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Republican presidential hopefuls are presenting the American public with a familiar fantasy: by ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/shells-alaska-bound-oil-drilling-ship-occupied-greenpeace-xena-actress Alaska Dispatch: Shell’s Alaska-bound oil drilling ship occupied by Greenpeace, Xena actress Alex DeMarban | Feb 23, 2012 Shell Oil Co. offshore Alaska drilling operations aren’t safe even from “Xena the Warrior Princess.” Lucy Lawless, the actress who played the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204131004577235501591753554.html FEBRUARY 21, 2012 By TOM FOWLER The U.S. and Mexico have reached an agreement that would allow oil and gas drilling on more than 1.5 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, resolving a dispute that has left those areas in limbo for more than a decade. The agreement signed Monday by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary ...Click Here to Read More.

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http://www.chron.com/business/article/U-S-oil-gusher-blows-out-projections-3341919.php More Information: Bouncing back After declining to levels not seen since the 1940s, U. S. oil production began rising again in 2009: More rigs: The number of rigs in U.S. oil fields has more than quadrupled in the past three years to 1,272. Bright forecast: The U.S. Energy Information Administration hiked ...Click Here to Read More.

http://flaglerlive.com/34477/everglades-drilling-castor FLAGLERLIVE | FEBRUARY 19, 2012 Last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would compel the federal Bureau of Land Management to lease potentially up to half a million acres of federal land in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming to oil companies to “research” and explore oil shale and tar sands development, two ...Click Here to Read More.

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/dcblog/2012/02/us_house_passes_bill_to_allow_1.html By William Gibson February 17, 2012 11:31 AM House Republicans, including seven from Florida, voted late Thursday to end the ban on drilling along Florida’s west coast. But the bill has almost no chance of becoming law. It would open the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, Pacific and ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-the-us-should-work-with-cuba-on-oil-drilling/2012/02/14/gIQAGLFiKR_story.html Cuba’s first deepwater oil rig, Scarabeo 9, began drilling last month 70 miles south of Key West, Fla. Cuban officials believe the rig may tap as much as 20 billion barrels of oil. (U.S. officials estimate a quarter to half that amount.) If Cuba’s estimates bear ...Click Here to Read More.

– February 16, 2012 We know that the environmental movement has had an impact on Florida politicians. Because today, when they want to do something bad for the quality of our water, the health of our forests or the integrity of wildlife habitat, they are always sure to say that they want to protect the environment. Then they go ahead and do the bad thing. So in the interest of protecting ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-17/keystone-pipeline-advances-as-house-passes-oil-drilling-bill-1-.html Bloomberg Keystone Pipeline Advances as House Passes Oil-Drilling Bill By Katarzyna Klimasinska – Feb 16, 2012 4:01 PM PT Fri Feb 17 00:01:41 GMT 2012 Enlarge image TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline is opposed by groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpps/news/bill-aims-to-open-up-oil-exploration-in-florida-dpgapx-20110215-to_17966787 Updated: Wednesday, 15 Feb 2012, 1:15 PM MST Published : Wednesday, 15 Feb 2012, 1:15 PM MST TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – A bill that would encourage public-private partnerships in exploring for oil and gas in Florida now has been restricted to the state’s Panhandle. The ...Click Here to Read More.

https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/455/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9501 February 14, 2012 24 hours to prevent senators from reviving Keystone XLUpdate: We have blown past 600,000 signatures. But we still need yours! Add your name to the petition and stand with us when we deliver our message to the Senate this afternoon. We have 24 hours to keep the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/13/146635957/u-s-watches-closely-as-oil-drilling-begins-off-cuba by GREG ALLEN Listen to the Story All Things Considered [4 min 35 sec] *February 13, 2012 There are big plans for oil exploration in the Caribbean, not far off the coast of Florida. A Spanish company recently began drilling in Cuban waters – just 55 miles from Key West. The well is the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/ Posted: Monday, February 13, 2012 4:00 am The crowd was modest, but the topic was vital. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, what should be done to restore what the public lost in environmental damage to the Gulf of Mexico? The Department of the Interior, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and several state agencies were at Texas ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.wlox.com/category/194069/video-center?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6732667#.TzZqiKHT8OU.facebook Gulf Restoration Network: United for a healthy Gulf of Mexico Great work by our coalition fighting drilling in Mississippi! The state did admit that most folks don’t want drilling – they wouldn’t share how much they’ve spent on their slick ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.truth-out.org/what-koch-brothers-say-online-wont-say-under-oath/1328906640 Friday 10 February 2012 by: Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation | Op-Ed David Koch. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) Why will Charles and David Koch produce a video about their position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline and not testify before Congress about it? The Koch brothers have refused to ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2012/02/national_park_service_mississi.html Published: Friday, February 10, 2012, 7:30 PM By The Associated Press The National Park Service says it opposes offshore drilling rules proposed by the Mississippi Development Authority. The federal agency said allowing drilling within one mile of Horn and Petit Bois islands would spoil the islands’ ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/296258/20120210/gulf-mexico-florida-coast-guard-cuba-oil.htm By PIERRE BERTRAND: Subscribe to Pierre’s RSS feed February 10, 2012 12:54 AM GMT Cuba’s fledgling oil industry has for the first time dropped an offshore rig into the waters off the Florida Keys, a move that has U.S. officials and environmentalists warning that the island nation’s ...Click Here to Read More.

This Fact Sheet explains in plain words the dangerous OCS offshore drilling provisions contained in HR 7, which can be used in drafting letters and added into the context of comprehensive fact sheets also covering the Arctic Refuge drilling and other issues. Feel free to use and adapt this as needed. Richard Charter Florida’s Gulf Coast: Waives the bipartisan agreement reached in 2006 called ...Click Here to Read More.

Elana Schor, E&E reporter Published: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 When more than 20,000 barrels of fuel leaked from an oil sands crude pipeline in Michigan in 2010, the government set aside $13 million from a fund formed for spill cleanup — and stretched to its limits by that spring’s Gulf of Mexico gusher. Five months later, the Internal Revenue Service quietly ruled that a ...Click Here to Read More.

http://summitcountyvoice.com/2012/02/06/groups-sue-to-halt-7-year-oil-spill-in-gulf-of-mexico/ Posted on February 6, 2012 by Bob Berwyn Feb. 2 report compiles independent monitoring data By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY- Citing the public’s right to know why an oil rig 11 miles off the coast of Louisiana has been leaking oil for seven years, a coalition of watchdog and environmental groups ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-cuba-oil-idUSTRE8111S620120202 By Jeff Franks Havana | Thu Feb 2, 2012 12:56pm EST (Reuters) – Spanish oil company Repsol YPF has begun drilling the first well in Cuba’s long-awaited exploration of offshore oilfields that the communist country says hold both billions of barrels of oil and the key to greater prosperity, industry sources ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/tracking-a-potential-cuba-oi-spill/1213878 By Robert H. Weisberg, Special to the Times In Print: Sunday, February 5, 2012 Numerous articles continue to be written about oil exploration off the coast of Cuba. Some federal officials, while discussing potential spill mitigation, claim that the swift currents of the Gulf Stream will protect South Florida by ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/31/us-usa-cuba-oil-idUSTRE80U01520120131 By Jane Sutton MIAMI | Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:19pm EST (Reuters) – Since the United States couldn’t stop Repsol from drilling for oil off Cuba’s coast, it should make the Spanish oil giant pay dearly for damages from any spill that threatens neighboring Florida, a congressional Republican said on ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20120131/cuba-offshore-drilling-oil-spill-preparations-120131/ Tuesday Jan. 31, 2012 The Associated Press Date: Tuesday Jan. 31, 2012 9:51 AM ET MIAMI – The U.S. is not ready to handle an oil spill if drilling off the Cuban coast should go awry but can be better prepared with monitoring systems and other basic steps, experts told government officials ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/31/did-cubas-plan-to-drill-near-florida-prompt-presidents-pivot-on-offshore/ by JACKIE MOREAU on JANUARY 31, 2012 While Republican Party candidates face a political drilling in the Florida primaries, Florida prepares for the offshore drilling by a Spanish company just miles away from its coastline, courtesy of our embargoed neighbor to the South. Cuba has ...Click Here to Read More.

Posted on Thursday, 01.26.12 With Scarabeo 9, a Spanish company’s leased oil rig, in place for exploratory drilling off the Cuban coast, response plans are being firmed up in case a spill reaches the United States. BY MIMI WHITEFIELD MWHITEFIELD@MIAMIHERALD.COM The Scarabeo 9 is a state-of the-art oil rig leased by a Spanish company, built in China and Singapore, owned by an Italian ...Click Here to Read More.