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

[Harold Sifton]

Yes I am aware of that Richard, I was just forwarding a concern.
It seems that no matter which party is in, America's thirst for fossil fuel 
is infinite and unchanging by the vast majority.
With over a 100% increase in oil/gas prices in the past 3 years, there has 
not been a change in purchasing habits by the American people/consumer. It 
will take a change in American consumer needs/wants/habits before this 
exploitation of resources will change, and I doubt that.
America is only 5 % of the worlds population yet it consumes well over 25% 
of its resources, and that % of consumption is still growing.
So what are that 50 % who did not vote for Bush doing about their consumer 
habits?
It is these consumerism habits/wants that drive these corporate/political 
initiatives/exploitations!
If the need was not there, then these corporate monsters would fail or move 
into the direction of the market that the people purchase in, i.e. wind 
farms, organic fuel, bio diesel or what ever..........

Later H

PS When I say America, I do not refer to the political, I refer to the 
general public.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "richard haase" <hotprojects at nyc.rr.com>
To: "Harold Sifton" <harry.sifton at sympatico.ca>; <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Mb-civic] Big Oil Wields Ultra Deep Influence AND U.S. Pushed 
toRatify Deep Sea Treaty


> harry rouhgly 50% of us did not vote for bush and are lefties
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harold Sifton" <harry.sifton at sympatico.ca>
> To: "MB Civic" <MB-civic at islandlists.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 6:52 PM
> Subject: [Mb-civic] Big Oil Wields Ultra Deep Influence AND U.S. Pushed
> toRatify Deep Sea Treaty
>
>
>> 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
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>> > Washington, DC  20006
>> > ph: 202-481-1221
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