Mixed Messages: Virginia’s Offshore Drilling Drama
So, now that President Obama has uttered the words “opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development” to the American people, what’s to come of the planned — and supposedly delayed — lease sale offshore Virginia? If anything, the recent contradiction of statements from the folks, who are supposed to be deciding these things, indicates some backpedaling on the government’s reported plans to delay the sale until 2012 or later. Last week quite a hullabaloo erupted after a regional director for Interior Department’s Mineral Management Service reportedly announced during an offshore industry workshop the Virginia lease sale would be delayed until at least 2012. But wait. A spokeswoman for MMS said Wednesday no decision has been made to delay the 2011 sale of oil and…
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