{"id":812,"date":"2010-05-28T20:58:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T20:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/?p=812"},"modified":"2010-05-28T20:58:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T20:58:39","slug":"ap-highlights-of-obamas-orders-on-offshore-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/05\/28\/ap-highlights-of-obamas-orders-on-offshore-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: Highlights of Obama&#8217;s orders on offshore drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h-3O699qQ-Lz_D4XuXiI_JWy3VZQD9FVGSK80\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h-3O699qQ-Lz_D4XuXiI_JWy3VZQD9FVGSK80<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a01 hour ago May 28, 2010<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Highlights of President Barack Obama&#8217;s new orders on offshore oil drilling safety. Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar discussed the measures Thursday and Salazar&#8217;s office released a 44-page report that night.<br \/>\n___<br \/>\nSAFER DRILLING?<\/p>\n<p>Obama ordered a number of changes designed to ensure offshore drilling is safer going forward, based on a 30-day review by Salazar, including:<\/p>\n<p>_Extending a moratorium on new deep water drilling leases for six months, until the presidential commission on the spill completes its work.<\/p>\n<p>_Suspending Shell Oil&#8217;s plans to begin exploratory drilling this summer on Arctic leases as far as 140 miles off the Alaska coast. Now those wells will not be considered until 2011.<\/p>\n<p>_Canceling pending lease sales off the coast of Virginia and in the western Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>_Suspending action on 33 deep water exploratory wells currently being drilled in the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>_Salazar announced additional safety measures, including requiring more thorough inspections of the &#8220;blowout preventers&#8221; designed to prevent oil spills. The blowout preventer on BP&#8217;s Deepwater Horizon rig failed.<br \/>\n___<br \/>\nOnline:<br \/>\nInterior Department report:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doi.gov\/deepwaterhorizon\/loader.cfm?csModulesecurity\/getfile&amp;PageID33598\">http:\/\/www.doi.gov\/deepwaterhorizon\/loader.cfm?csModulesecurity\/getfile&amp;PageID33598<\/a><\/p>\n<p>special thanks to Richard Charter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h-3O699qQ-Lz_D4XuXiI_JWy3VZQD9FVGSK80 \u00a01 hour ago May 28, 2010 \u00a0Highlights of President Barack Obama&#8217;s new orders on offshore oil drilling safety. Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar discussed the measures Thursday and Salazar&#8217;s office released a 44-page report that night. ___ SAFER DRILLING? Obama ordered a number of changes designed to ensure offshore drilling is safer going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2010\/05\/28\/ap-highlights-of-obamas-orders-on-offshore-drilling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AP: Highlights of Obama&#8217;s orders on offshore drilling<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}