Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Oil Drilling News


OIL/ENERGY POLICY

EDITORIAL: Give Me the Permits, or Else


Drilling dilemma: Oil industry leases untapped

"They have the drilling rights to an area of public land the size of Minnesota where they could and should be drilling," Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey, a Democrat, said in a statement to CNNMoney. "But instead [they] are coming back and asking Congress to allow drill rigs off our beaches up and down the East Coast."

FLORIDA


Another drilling threat

U.S. officials must work to safeguard Florida from a rig off Cuba.


NEW JERSEY

Offshore drilling arguments belie the truth