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Showing Original Post only (View all)All of the Gulf of Mexico Just Got Sold. [View all]
TOMORROW: Obama Administration To Offer More Than 20 Million Acres in Western Gulf of Mexico for Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Development
November Sale Will Offer All Available Unleased Areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico, Only Latest in a Series of Recent Major Offshore Oil and Gas Sales
11/27/2012
Contact: Blake Androff (DOI) 202-208-6416
John Filostrat (BOEM) 504-731-7815
WASHINGTON Tomorrow, as part of President Obamas all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold an oil and gas lease sale that will make more than 20 million offshore acres available, and represents all unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. The Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale builds on two major Gulf of Mexico lease sales in the past year alone, a 21 million acre sale held last December and a 39 million acre sale held in June.
At President Obamas direction, his Administration continues to implement a comprehensive, all-of-the-above energy strategy, expanding domestic production, reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and supporting jobs, said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Developing public energy resources in the Gulf of Mexico continues to generate much needed revenue for local communities while helping to power our nation and fuel our economy.
The lease sale will be held on November 28, 2012 at 9:00 AM CDT, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisianaand supports the Administrations goal of continuing to increase domestic oil and gas production, which has grown each year the President has been in office, with domestic oil production in 2011 higher than any time in nearly a decade and natural gas production at its highest level ever. Foreign oil imports now account for less than 50 percent of the oil consumed in America the lowest level since 1995.
Tomorrows offshore lease sale will be the first held under the Administrations new Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 20122017 (Five Year Program), which makes available for exploration and development all of the offshore areas with the highest conventional resource potential that together include more than 75 percent of the Nations undiscovered, technically recoverable offshore oil and gas resources. BOEM also recently announced that the next Central Gulf of Mexico lease sale, proposed Lease Sale 227, will take place on March 20, 2013, making 38 million acres available.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/28/1165343/-All-of-the-Gulf-of-Mexico-Just-Got-Sold
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Energy efficiency standards across the board have been raised by Obama and are being raised more.
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#66
You don't think corporations would allow two *fully* different choices for President, do ya?
villager
Nov 2012
#3
You missed your opportunity for redress (6:37 am - 6:40 am, November 7, 2012.)
OnyxCollie
Nov 2012
#16
Really. I held my nose while casting my vote for Obama the 2nd time, because I thought just
Nay
Nov 2012
#31
I was born in and grew up in FL, so this whole thing was a visceral nightmare for me. I almost
Nay
Nov 2012
#48
The guilty DO escape relatively unharmed -- until the planet itself has too much damage and they
Nay
Nov 2012
#88
Like the Tar Sands...will we be assured the oil stays here? Or does it go to China, India
KoKo
Nov 2012
#73
Yeah...Wopping 0.1%...If I yell like hell I can get 0.4% but have to call bank in 3 Months!
KoKo
Nov 2012
#97
You missed the memo; five percent of something is the whole thing now, apparently
Posteritatis
Nov 2012
#42
He alluded to this all along; doesn't make it any easier :-((((((((((((((((((((
patrice
Nov 2012
#22
There are such a thing as green Democrats. I worked for one recently. & What we do if we don't
patrice
Nov 2012
#38
Ain't it funny how all that stuff we THOUGHT the Democratic Party stood for...........
socialist_n_TN
Nov 2012
#45
Some times I vote Green or even Socialist, because the Dems don't seem to get it.
bahrbearian
Nov 2012
#55
So the oil companies destroyed the gulf and rather than punishing them severely were rewarding them?
Initech
Nov 2012
#47
But, but Alabama has nothing but white sandy beaches and fishing's rebounded along the Gulf.
bulloney
Nov 2012
#53
And here I thought I would not wake up to atrocities. Well I really didn't go to sleep.
lonestarnot
Nov 2012
#58
Selling off the Gulf of Mexico offsets the Lilly Ledbetter Act just a lil bit.
OnyxCollie
Nov 2012
#119
I assume everyone complaining about this only ever travels by bike or on foot.
Nye Bevan
Nov 2012
#80
What pisses me off the most is that the companies then sell the oil to other countries.
Marrah_G
Nov 2012
#99