Posted on 02/22/2006 8:56:13 PM PST by ncountylee
One of California's greatest treasures is its coastline. Millions of people enjoy and benefit from California's coast, from south of San Diego to the Oregon border.
Yet California's coastline, which has already experienced the damage that can occur with oil drilling, has been further threatened by provisions in the 2005 Energy Bill that would allow preliminary steps to be taken for new oil drilling in the region.
Because of this threat to California's coast, I am leading the effort with Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara) to permanently protect our majestic coast from the threat of new offshore drilling.
Together, we have introduced the California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act, which would provide permanent protection for California's coast from future drilling and from efforts to assess and inventory oil and gas resources off the coastline.
Many years ago, Californians decided that the potential benefits of additional offshore oil and gas development were not worth the risk of destroying our priceless coastal treasures. But despite years of bipartisan support for the moratoria on new offshore drilling, our coast continues to be threatened. When it becomes law, the California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act will finally provide the permanent protection against future drilling that Californians have demanded for a generation.
I will be working with Senator Feinstein and Congresswoman Capps to ensure that future generations of Californians will be able to wade in the tide, swim in the waves, and enjoy California's wonderful coast.
- Barbara Boxer is one of California's two United States Senators.
BTTT
I live on the west coast and support offshore drilling as well.
I wonder if eminent domain could trump these NIMBY's that don't care about America's startegic needs.
Funny thing that my neighbors all support drilling also and we are right on the sand.
Offshore platforms are pretty at night and the technology is lightyears safer than it ever was before.
Di-fi and Boxer can sit at home in the dark. Since their only answer is conservation, I guess that is their plan. I prefer to have electric power and gas in my hybrid, thank you.
I look forward to those pretty lights when I walk with my sweetie on the shore. So romantic. Also a good way to get back at those pesky birds which seem to like my truck so much.
As a Louisina citizen I could say so much right now to this
Lois Capps was born Lois Grimsrud, my good friend Tom's big sister. Their father was the pastor at the lutheran church kitty corner across the street in Kalispell, MT. Her grand father was the main guy at the lutheran seminary in Fargo, ND. Her uncle, by marriage, was Kenneth Arnold(remember "flying saucers"). I remember Lois very well, Freda is her and Tom's little sister. O'Reilly once took her to task for a bill to fund lasar removal of tattoos. Our mutual friend, also in that church and HS classmate, is Myron Nordquist, Sen Conrad Burns'(R-MT)private attorney. As dems go, Lois isn't all that bad, her liberalism is more from a christian perspective, not the hollywood-porn crowd. Point : not all dems are bad people, wrong on many issues but their heart is right; I think of them as the "santa claus" party...
I'll do one better, I'm a Louisiana citizen that works in the oil & gas industry, and I'm on a dive boat in the Gulf of Mexico repairing the pipelines that were damaged by both hurricanes. I'll say what you are too much of a gentlemen to say:
To all of those that don't want offshore drilling: You can sit and freeze in the dark!
AMEN.
Boxer seems to forget the beaches were littered with oil globs before drilling began from the pressures that forced it through ground fissures in the ocean. The beaches are much nicer since the platforms started dotting the landscape. I look out at four and have no problem seeing more.
Ditto.
I cant understand why my state (MS), which is sitting on (so Ive heard) untapped oil and natural gas reserves refuses to allow drilling off the coast. Those royalties could go a long way towards rebuilding after Katrina, and generate some good paying jobs along the way.
I look out at two and have no problem seeing more.
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