“Today we’re embarking on a new path for energ
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Posted On: 04/18/2018 6:12:22 PM
“Today we’re embarking on a new path for energy dominance in America,” U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said during a conference call with reporters.
If you care at all about the future of our country, if you have grandchildren, if you just love our country, this idea should shake you to your core!
You have to go back to 1984 with President Reagan when drilling off the California coast was halted. The plan would allow oil and gas companies to lease 47 areas off America’s coastlines from 2019 to 2024, totaling up to 90 percent of the offshore areas where oil drilling is potentially allowed. Of those, seven of those areas would be in the Pacific Ocean — two off Northern California, two off Central California, two off Southern California and one off Washington state and Oregon.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee vowed Thursday to fight the plan.
“They’ve chosen to forget the utter devastation of past offshore oil spills to wildlife and to the fishing, recreation and tourism industries in our states,” said the Democratic governors in a joint statement. “They’ve chosen to ignore the science that tells us our climate is changing and we must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. But we won’t forget history or ignore science.”
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., echoed those remarks.
“The Trump administration’s reckless ‘drill, baby, drill’ approach threatens our oceans and coasts while doing nothing to increase our energy independence,” Feinstein said, citing the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, which resulted in more than 3 million gallons of black crude from a Union Oil platform coating beaches for miles. “California neither needs nor wants risky new offshore oil rigs, and I’ll do all I can to oppose this plan.”
“The administration is using the shock-and-awe approach,” said Haifley, executive director of O’Neill Sea Odyssey, an organization that teaches children about the ocean. “Shock at the plan’s size — and awe at the huge task ahead in fighting it. It won’t work. Instead, it will unite Americans to fight for their oceans.”
If you care at all about the future of our country, if you have grandchildren, if you just love our country, this idea should shake you to your core!
You have to go back to 1984 with President Reagan when drilling off the California coast was halted. The plan would allow oil and gas companies to lease 47 areas off America’s coastlines from 2019 to 2024, totaling up to 90 percent of the offshore areas where oil drilling is potentially allowed. Of those, seven of those areas would be in the Pacific Ocean — two off Northern California, two off Central California, two off Southern California and one off Washington state and Oregon.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee vowed Thursday to fight the plan.
“They’ve chosen to forget the utter devastation of past offshore oil spills to wildlife and to the fishing, recreation and tourism industries in our states,” said the Democratic governors in a joint statement. “They’ve chosen to ignore the science that tells us our climate is changing and we must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. But we won’t forget history or ignore science.”
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., echoed those remarks.
“The Trump administration’s reckless ‘drill, baby, drill’ approach threatens our oceans and coasts while doing nothing to increase our energy independence,” Feinstein said, citing the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, which resulted in more than 3 million gallons of black crude from a Union Oil platform coating beaches for miles. “California neither needs nor wants risky new offshore oil rigs, and I’ll do all I can to oppose this plan.”
“The administration is using the shock-and-awe approach,” said Haifley, executive director of O’Neill Sea Odyssey, an organization that teaches children about the ocean. “Shock at the plan’s size — and awe at the huge task ahead in fighting it. It won’t work. Instead, it will unite Americans to fight for their oceans.”
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