NOAA administrator discusses Inlet oil, gas industry, belugas

U.S. Sen. Mark Begich and a top Obama administration official sat down Tuesday with Cook Inlet gas and oil interests to discuss whether exploration and production could get a boost by streamlining requirements for protection of endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales.

Begich said he is trying to create an environment for increased natural gas production. He called natural gas critical to Southcentral Alaska's economic health. Utilities have said they expect a shortage by 2014.

Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the group that NOAA knows it must work with industry.

"I think there is uniform agreement that we need to get our act together and be good partners with many different entities and certainly private sector looms large among those," she told the group.

http://www.adn.com/2011/08/23/2028626/noaa-administrator-discusses-inlet.html



I guess driiling the Arctic isn't enough for this Administration.

Didn't you get the memo?

why not just eliminate them entirely...

totally corrupt