The stumbling block to more offshore oil and natural gas drilling is not the environment or the economy, but rather it’s the view of platforms from shorelines, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) told a House hearing Tuesday. He recommended that lawmakers require companies to make their rigs more eye appealing, as is already being done in some coastal communities in California.
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‘Gang of 10’ Calls for Drilling Off Virginia, Georgia and Carolinas
A coalition of five Senate Republicans and five Democrats — known as the “Gang of 10” — Thursday unveiled comprehensive, bipartisan legislation offering what appeared to be the first real compromise on offshore drilling, proposing to open additional Gulf of Mexico areas and allow the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia to opt into leasing off their shores. The measure would not open coastal areas off states such as New Jersey and California, which have bitterly opposed offshore drilling.
August 4, 2008
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