We are moving forward with holding annual lease sales in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
The President announced that we would be holding 3 lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico by June 30th of next year.
I think that would be very bad public policy.
We believe that with flexibility... we could reduce lease terms and, therefore, incentivize a more rapid development of oil and gas.
We learned nothing. We have no energy policy. We are still more dependent than ever.
The President voiced his support for a lease extension with respect to Gulf of Mexico wells that were directly impacted by the events of the...
I don't want to see the coal companies subsidized. I don't want to see the fossil fuel subsidized.
You're saying new coal fired plants without CCS is being built?
Here's my concern. We're competing with all these manufacturing, these Third World developing countries, whether it be China coming on so st...
But the reality is is the Federal Government is not giving any permits. We're not expanding. You can't build anything. You can't do a thing.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To all of you, thank you for being here.
So CCS is about the only viable option that we have right now?
But basically you all agree that the Federal Government has taken a position, everything stops, nothing happens unless CCS is implemented.
his belief is that CCS is not a fully-developed, commercially-available technology and, yet, EPA regulations are requiring permit applicants...
That doesn't make sense to us as Americans why we would lose more jobs because of our high cost of manufacturing when we don't have the prov...
Would it be a fair statement to say that we don't have the technology in place to basically that would handle the CCS, if you will, carbon c...
this is Kay Bailey Hutchison's and Jay Rockefeller's main agenda item for this 2-year period.
I don't think people appreciate that manufacturing is this country's principal source of R&D and innovation.
