However, the loan offer was made in 2009, when no drilling ban was in effect in the Gulf.
"This is 'yes, but no drilling in Alaska, no drilling in the Eastern Gulf, no drilling inside 50 miles, ' " Pence said.
True understanding of cement came from the oil industry over the last hundred-plus years and without cement, there would be no drilling.
The Gulf of Mexico--Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have no offshore drilling hang-ups--has already proved to be a treasure trove.
However, at the moment, he says the company doesn't have any oil in storage, and holds just 240 net acres in oil and gas leases in Missouri with no active drilling.
The debate should be over anyway, say both state regulators and the drilling company Rex Energy, because multiple independent reviews found no contamination from drilling at all.
Finally, there is no competition for drilling from the oil and gas industry.
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About this, it should be stressed that this writer has no problem with drilling offshore, in Alaska, or anyone else in these fifty states.
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No matter who is drilling these wells they cost a couple of hundred million to drill those down 30, 000 feet.
The documents released Wednesday also show the Hallowichs agreed there was no medical evidence that drilling harmed their health or their children's health.
Even in areas with no nearby oil and gas drilling, the water quality in some aquifers changes naturally, groundwater experts say.
Obama says he is dedicated to opening new federal lands for drilling, yet no President has ever offered fewer offshore leases.
Most of these firms were relatively small until the 1980s, when several oil companies decided that humdrum drilling chores were no longer worth doing in-house.
There was a lot of verbiage tossed around about the dangers of deep-water drilling, that no one had any experience with this kind of thing, yada, yada, yada.
Independent fact checkers have said that offshore drilling will have no short-term, and little long-term, impact on gas prices, but McCain has said it would be useful as a symbolic gesture to signal U.S. resolve not to be dependent on foreign oil.
The town board in Sanford, about 100 miles southwest of Albany in Broome County, passed a resolution in September saying there already had been hours of public comment for and against gas drilling and that no further discussion would be allowed during board meetings, although residents could still submit comments in writing.
Britain, Norway and the Netherlands permit vigorous offshore drilling programs, and no one would accuse those countries of being environmentally insensitive.
Britain, Norway and the Netherlands permit vigorous offshore drilling programs, and no one would accuse those countries--or the rest of Europe--of being environmentally insensitive.
After plaintiffs' attorneys rested their case Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled there was no evidence that BP's drilling fluids contractor M-I LLC made any decision that led to the blowout of BP's Macondo well.
The oil drilling vessel, which has no engines of its own, was being towed for maintenance when it ran aground during a powerful storm on New Year's Eve.
Yet Benton Baugh, president of Radoil, said that in at least two separate hour-and-a-half phone calls among Interior and the experts, there was no discussion of a moratorium on existing drilling.
Showing that there are no doubts about the importance of deepwater drilling in the oil and gas industry, General Electric announced a plan to purchase 100% of subsea pipeline manufacturer Wellstream Holdings .
The speculation is that something went wrong with the circulation of this drilling mud such that it could no longer control the reservoir pressures.
In December, Cuadrilla said it had no intention "at the moment" of drilling to the area south of the village, where it now has permission to drill a borehole for oil and gas exploration.
Cuadrilla insists the process is safe, but says it has no intention "at the moment" of drilling in the area south of the village, where it has permission to drill a borehole for oil and gas exploration.
Hurricane Katrina and other storms in 2005 blew away offshore drilling platforms--and there were no spills to speak of.
No doubt the industry will eventually crack the Arctic drilling conundrum.
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But the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
"The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all, " she said.
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