Democrats also argue plenty of existing offshore areas are already available to oil companies.
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Its focus on regulatory reform and harnessing federal lands and offshore areas to produce more traditional energy underscore this fact.
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What sounds so simple in theory--opening offshore areas to increase oil production for the energy-price-shocked U.S. populace--turns out to be incredibly complex.
And all Arctic countries are opening their offshore areas to exploration with caution: for oil companies, the Arctic is one of the world's most tightly regulated regions.
Canceling plans to lease offshore areas along the Atlantic coast.
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Those scenarios include development in both federal and state offshore areas, including along Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts as well as in Great Lakes and Hawaiian waters, the agency says.
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In the near term, as we transition to cleaner energy sources, we're going to have to make some tough decisions about opening up new offshore areas for oil and gas development.
The president continues, pointing out that he is opening up more offshore areas to drilling a move that he had committed to make before the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
"The president has failed in his economic policy, and now he wants to say, 'but for drilling in protected areas offshore, our economy would be thriving and the price of gas would be lower, '" Pelosi said.
And it could lead to offshore wind farms eventually being located many miles offshore, away from areas where they cause disruption, Ms Gjorv added.
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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The trade-off, then, is to lift offshore drilling restrictions in certain areas.
The question for us and the challenge for us is get quicker and agile where smaller units can get to back-bay shallow areas, and work offshore to find smaller patches of oil and deal with them as quickly as we can moving forward.
In coastal areas of the United States, offshore resources tend to dwarf the land-based wind component with the exception of California, Texas, Maine and a few other states.
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The same has been true in other areas of our energy debate, from offshore drilling to putting a price on carbon pollution.
More broadly, offshore employment in IT, banking and six other areas will have doubled between 2003 and 2008 to 1.2 million jobs, says McKinsey Global Institute.
About 12, 000 barrels come from offshore UK locations including the CMS and Thames-Hewett areas.
WEAs are areas being considered by state-federal government offshore wind task forces and large public-private wind power consortiums like the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium.
He said that the main threats in Atlantic rainforest coastal areas include chemical pollution, urbanization, fishing and the newly-found offshore oil and gas wells.
In April 2008, I wrote about McMoRan and the vision it had for finding significant oil and gas deposits by going deeper in areas that provided significant discoveries decades ago in the Gulf area, both onshore and offshore, in shallow wells drilled years ago.
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