Louisiana will be first to benefit from expansion of oil and gas exploration, Obama's Interior secretary says | - NOLA.com
Louisiana will be the first beneficiary of President Barack Obama's expansion of oil and gas development and exploration on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today in announcing an expedited lease sale of 18 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 18.July '09: Obama's Interior Secretary: Still promoting the greatest scientific fraud in human history
"I wanted to come here to New Orleans because the Gulf of Mexico is essentially the place where the lights are green in terms of moving forward with production," Salazar said.
We will not fully unleash the potential of the clean energy economy unless Congress puts an upper limit on the emissions of heat-trapping gases that are damaging our environment. Doing so will level the playing field for new technologies by allowing the market to put a price on carbon, and will trigger massive investment in renewable energy projects across the country.
We are also seeing the dangerous consequences of climate change: longer and hotter fire seasons, reduced snow packs, rising sea levels and declines of wildlife. Farmers, ranchers, municipalities, and other water users in Colorado and across the West are facing the possibility of a grim future in which there is less water to go around.
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