The group says drilling plans by Russian energy giant Gazprom are "dangerous" and should be abandoned.
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And Thomas Pyle, President of the Institute for Energy Research, a group that advocates offshore drilling, calls the group's plan an "act of political expedience" that doesn't guarantee the production of any new oil.
McMurdo is also the staging ground for another group of scientists drilling into the continent to look into the planet's past.
Dan Fitzsimmons, leader of the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York, a pro-drilling group, said opposition to hydrofracking is based on politics, not science.
Despite Pelosi and the Democratic leadership opposing efforts to repeal a 1981 law barring most offshore drilling, the Senate group said its plan probably would allow offshore drilling in new areas of the outer continental shelf.
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Oil and gas group Bowleven has started drilling at its exploration well off the coast of Cameroon.
In August, protesters from environmental group Greenpeace tried to stall the drilling of the Alpha well by suspending themselves from the rig.
The House group is not expected to advocate drilling there, either.
Even if the cost cuts work and Big Oil finally agrees to support the group, environmentalists are squarely against the drilling aspect of the plan.
Marcellus Protest, a local group that's critical of the drilling industry, complained about a lack of hearings in nearby communities and that no environmental impact study was done in advance.
After deciding it would no longer take such donations, the group launched a campaign that is critical of the gas drilling industry.
The group in the Senate says its plan probably would allow drilling in new areas of the outer continental shelf, an idea vehemently opposed by Democratic leaders.
Just before Congress shut up shop, a bipartisan group of ten senators suggested a compromise that would allow drilling off Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia, while also raising taxes on oil firms.
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Apache joins the likes of BG Group, Statoil, Shell and Transocean in closing offices and curtailing drilling operations.
The Gang of 16, a group of senators who support a controversial energy plan that promotes offshore drilling and renewable energy, is about to get larger.
While students across the state have spent hours drilling for the annual tests, a small but vocal group of parents is planning to boycott them, saying those hours could have been better spent.
The plaintiffs are a group of 48 villagers who purport to represent an entire region polluted with drilling waste.
The new EPA data is "kind of an earthquake" in the debate over drilling, said Michael Shellenberger, the president of the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental group based in Oakland, Calif.
Structural metal workers and what the BLS calls extractive occupations (mining and drilling) round out the list of the top five most dangerous occupations, though neither group dies on the job at even half the rate of timber cutters.
Given the growing distaste for offshore drilling in the wake of the ongoing BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the coal mining group could receive added attention as a viable alternative.
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