Obama drilling plan upsets environmentalists
Environmentalists did not receive the news of President Obama opening up offshoring drilling off the east coast well. Obama's plan will open tracts off the coast of Virginia to exploration and expand leases for prospecting off the western coast of Florida. It will also authorize scientific research off Alaska in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
"What we need is bold, decisive steps towards clean energy, like the new clean cars regulations announced this week, not more dirty, expensive offshore drilling," said Michael Brune of the Sierra Club.
The plan "will further our national addiction to oil and contribute to global warming, while at the same time directly despoiling the habitat of polar bears, endangered whales, and other imperiled wildlife.
Edward Markey, the Democrat head of the House of Representatives panel on Energy Independence and Global Warming, said he will reintroduce legislation that would impose an escalating fee on oil drilling rights not being used by oil companies.
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