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

[richard haase]

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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> > ph: 202-481-1221
> >
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