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BLOGASSAULT on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:13:50 PM
Salazar told reporters he will soon launch a 45-day comment period on a planned study of how drilling would affect the ocean floor. He said federal officials know little about the Atlantic Coast because of a long-standing moratorium on oil and gas exploration across much of the nation's Outer Continental Shelf. Congress lifted the moratorium in 2008.
Information on the possible effect of Atlantic drilling "is 30 years out of date," Salazar said Monday. He said six companies have filed applications to do more seismic exploration in the Atlantic and three others have indicated interest.
And it will be another 30 years out of date after they shelve this one as well. The fact is, I believe this is a ploy for Obama to look as if he is leaning more to the right, just as he is trying to spin his new expense cuts in tomorrows State of the Union address. As long as the democrats run the eastern states legislatures, there will never be any drilling off the eastern coast, just like there won't
be any wind farms in Cape Cod. It's all good, as long as it's somebody else's backyard.