Sorry, Kay, but you're an ignoramus, a very dim fluorescent bulb.
Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/14/2009 5:57:27 PM PST by markomalley
Environmental activists and prominent Virginia Democrats banded together Tuesday to tell the federal government to abandon plans to open the state's coastline to oil and natural gas drilling by the end of 2011.
Congress allowed a ban on offshore drilling to expire at the end of September, and the U.S. Department of the Interior has been collecting feedback from citizens, elected officials and environmental groups on plans to open up tracts off the state's coastline in the next three years. As the comment period ended Tuesday, a handful of conservation groups sent letters to the federal Minerals Management Service saying that potential damage from drilling far outweighs the amount of buried resources.
"Climate change is already causing stress on the wildlife that make the ocean so special in this area," wrote Kay Slaughter, an attorney with the Southeastern Environmental Law Center. "Virginia Beach is rated 10th in the world in terms of expected impacts from climate change; drilling would only exacerbate this situation."
In addition to the law center, the letter was also sent on behalf of the Virginia chapter of the Sierra Club, the Virginia League of Conservation Voters and Environment Virginia.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine requested that federal officials do more research and extend the public comment period until the end of February so that the incoming members of President-elect Barack Obama's administration have time to weigh the potential advantages and drawbacks that come with new drilling. Obama has said that he supports more offshore drilling, but only if it is part of a broader approach that also develops renewable and alternative energy sources.
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No changing tune, these are the same folks who believe that $4.00 per gallon is too low of a price!
Amazing how they change their tune at $1.50 a gallon vice $4.00 a gallon.
-———————————————————————————————They They never have changed their tune...they were just hiding until it was safe to scamper out from underneath their rock.
You are right! And they will cut off their nose and tear out their eyes to spite their face. Purely DUMB...
Oil is what makes America go! Access to it must be stopped! - Enviro Neanderthals and their VA Commie Dem buddies.
Exactly!!!
>>>>only if it is part of a broader approach that also develops renewable and alternative energy sources.<<<<<
Check out this excellent article from Family Security Matters which calculates the true and staggering environmental cost of several “renewable and alternative energy sources” such as switchgrass, sugar cane, electric cars, solar, biomass, etc.
July 2, 2008
Ending Our Oil Addiction: Reality Check
by Raymond Kraft
Kraft shows that they are all destined for failure, and the envirowhackos are either too duplicitous or too stupid to grasp the truth.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.506/pub_detail.asp
Sorry, Kay, but you're an ignoramus, a very dim fluorescent bulb.
Follow the link and you will see the benefits to the ocean environment with more rigs
The new congress will kill the newly approved offshore drilling bill and it will go away so we need to get back to pushing all involved understand that we cannot be dependent on foreign oil and allow a windfall tax on the oil companies. (I got a letter from Boxer and she took pride in the fact that she sponsored that bill)
Save the offshore drilling and Help Sarah open anwr
Its all about National Defense, Drill for Oil Now
League of Conservation Voters = Neo-Nazi neanderthals
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