Drilling Plans Off Cuba Stir Fears of Impact on Gulf
September 30, 2010
New York Times
Clifford Kraus
HOUSTON — Five months after the BP oil spill, a federal moratorium still prohibits new deepwater drilling in the American waters of the Gulf of Mexico. And under longstanding federal law, drilling is also banned near the coast of Florida.
Yet next year, a Spanish company will begin… Read more »
The Real Gulf Disaster
The Wall Street Journal
September 22, 2010
Editorial
On Sunday Federal spill-response chief Thad Allen declared BP's ruptured well "effectively dead." Now if only Gulf residents weren't stuck coping with the disaster the government created after the accident—namely, the federal drilling moratorium.
The White House has been struggling to justify this ban,… Read more »
AP ENTERPRISE: A look at who got gov't Gulf work
Associated Press
Sharon Theimer
Monday, September 13, 2010
WASHINGTON – The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former… Read more »
Gulf Drilling Ban Would Cost 23,000 Jobs, Regulator Estimates in Memo (Bloomberg 8/23/10)
Gov't: 23K workers affected by Gulf oil drill ban (AP 8/22/10)
Admin. Estimated 23,000 Jobs Lost to Moratorium (RedState 8/23/10)
U.S. Saw Drill Ban Killing Many Jobs (WSJ 8/21/10)
Report: Interior pins 23,000 job losses on deepwater drilling ban (The Hill 8/21/10)
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On Friday, the House of Representatives debated the CLEAR Act (HR 3534), which included taking a vote on Rep. Charlie Melancon’s (D-LA) amendment to supposedly end the deepwater drilling moratorium. As word gets out that this amendment won’t actually lift the Obama Administration’s job-killing moratorium, Rep. Melancon is scrambling to explain his actions.
Here are five facts about Rep.… Read more »
Just as predicted, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Democrats have decided to skip town without even voting on an oil spill response bill, leaving their House Democrat colleagues to defend their recent vote on the job-killing, new-$22-billion-energy-tax-imposing CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534) during the August recess. This is just another example of House Democrat leadership forcing… Read more »
Today during floor debate on the CLEAR Act, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) emphasized the lost jobs, increased spending and higher taxes that would result from passage of the bill. He also questioned why an “oil spill response bill” would include a $22 billion energy tax and $30 billion in spending if BP is 100% accountable for paying for the… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following statement on the House floor today regarding the Democrats’ CLEAR Act - a bill that would kill jobs, raise taxes and increase spending:
Click here to watch the floor speech
Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume and ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my… Read more »
Statement of Republican Policy
Amendment to H.R. 3534, the CLEAR ACT
Republican Leader John Boehner
America Facing Higher Energy Costs, Fewer Jobs Under Dems’ Energy Bill
Boehner: Dems Exploit Gulf Tragedy for Job-Destroying Tax on American Energy
House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence
Pence Warns of Democrats’ New Job-Killing Energy Bill… Read more »
Gulf Coast Can't Afford CLEAR Disaster
By Rep. Bill Cassidy
Friday, July 30, 2010
Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Two man-made disasters have hit the Gulf Coast: the BP oil spill and the President’s moratorium on energy production. A third disaster is scheduled for a vote in the House today.
Two hundred twenty-six… Read more »
