Offshore drilling debate heats up

By: shannond | September 21st, 2009 at 10:36pm
"Opponents of offshore drilling - some of them dressed as salmon and a polar bear - delivered more than 250,000 postcards and letters to the Interior Department on Monday objecting to a proposal to open to oil and gas drilling vast waters off the Pacific and Atlantic U.S. coasts.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar invited public comments on a sweeping blueprint for expanded offshore drilling that was initially proposed in the final days of the former Bush administration.

He did not rule out expanded offshore drilling."
by The Star

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