[Mb-civic] Big Oil Wields Ultra Deep Influence AND U.S. Pushed to Ratify Deep Sea Treaty

[Harold Sifton]

Nice going America, what environmental catastrophe will be next?

Later H


> Big Oil Wields Ultra Deep Influence
> Industry demands tax breaks, regulatory changes to hunt for oil at the
> bottom of the sea.
>
> WASHINGTON, December 20, 2004 - In the spring of 2001, at a cocktail
> party on Capitol Hill, a staff member of the House Committee on Science
> brought up a subject of great interest to a lobbyist for the Gas
> Technology Institute, a Chicago-area organization that provides research
> and development for the natural gas industry: Rep. Ralph Hall, an
> 11-term Texas Democrat who sat on both the science committee and the
> Committee on Energy and Commerce, was interested in ultra-deepwater
> drilling and research collaborations between industry and government. In
> fact, the staffer let on, the science committee was drafting a bill
> proposing that the government subsidize technology for extracting
> natural gas and oil from hard-to-reach sources such as sand, rock and
> the deepest waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
>
> To read the full report log on to http://www.publicintegrity.org.
>
> ALSO
>
> U.S. Pushed to Ratify Deep Sea Treaty
> U.N. Law of the Sea will divvy up deep ocean bottom for oil and gas
> drilling.
>
> WASHINGTON, December 20, 2004 - Energy companies prospecting for oil and
> gas in the Gulf of Mexico have used advanced technologies to drill in
> the deepest waters of U.S. territory. But what happens when they have
> the capacity-some say they already do-to drill beyond those borders into
> the high seas? Many believe the answer lies in the United Nations
> Convention on the Law of the Sea.
>
> Read the full report at http://www.publicintegrity.org.
>
>
> Nathan Kommers
> Center for Public Integrity
> 910 17th St. NW
> Washington, DC  20006
> ph: 202-481-1221
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