Senate Backs Offshore Energy Inventory

By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer
17 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Tuesday to conduct an inventory of offshore oil and gas resources, including in areas that have been off-limits to drilling for nearly a quarter century. Opponents called it a prelude to eventual gas development in areas now under a drilling ban.

"This gives Americans full information of what is there," maintained Sen. Mary Landrieu (news, bio, voting record), D-La. "This is not a drilling amendment."

But senators from a number of coastal states argued vigorously against the inventory, saying the Interior Department already has a good idea of oil and gas resources beneath the Outer Continental Shelf and doesn't need a new accounting.

"It's the first step to drilling. It's the proverbial camel's nose under the tent," declared Sen. Bill Nelson (news, bio, voting record), D-Fla., who brought to the Senate floor the Interior Department's last inventory in 2003 and said another one is planned for this summer.

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All the big money and tourism beach areas in FLA. It will only take one accident during the "inventory" to spoil the beaches for years.

Drive away the tourism, drive away the money and you drive away Jeb.

I have a dedicated swimsuit for swimming in the Texas Gulf of Mexico beaches. It is covered with tar stains. I usually use a little gasoline on a rag to clean the tar off of my skin. I once spent about 8 hours scrubbing tar off of my sailboat after sailing it in the gulf.

I did not need a dedicated swimsuit in San Diego.

the ocean. What a bunch of putzes.

"Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals rely on their sense of hearing to navigate, to locate food and to communicate with each other. Exposure to this level of sound can cause deafening disorientation and can lead to permanent damage."

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/big-oil-pushes-to-blast-coasts

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Sonic Impact: A Precautionary Assessment of Noise Pollution from Ocean Seismic Surveys

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/press/reports/sonic-impact-a-precautionary

inventory of our very own resources and location thereof is a great idea. It will show all of us what is where and it will expose those denying access for one reason or another. Most of all it will expose the "Not in my back yard" crowd.

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This is an attempt to get infrastructure in place to go ahead and do the drilling. In the end, even if they did drill it all, it would not help the current crisis. We are running out of oil. Do we have to destroy the entire planet just to prove it? Folks who want to keep drilling everything in sight also likely believe global warming is a farce.

Too bad fools and idiots control this country.

Instead, we should be against all new drilling, on shore or offshore, and start really addressing the problems here. Killing off marine life so that a few companies can make some quick profits at our expense (if they fail we pay anyway) is stupid, especially when you know there is not enough out there to make any real difference, certainly not in proportion to the damage.

We need to wean ourselves off oil now, not keep on with pipe dreams about all the oil we want just offshore and other nonsense like that.

you know where all the oil is. Many do not. I do not. Aside from which I did not say I condone drilling where the oil is.

The fact is though wherever oil is it will be harvested sooner or later.

I expect you know that too.

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