What percentage of those ports' activity is directly related to offshore oil and gas?
What I am scared to death about is that for energy companies and related industries, all of a sudden, the political risk in the United State...
I want to go back to the broader issue of not just the formal moratorium in deepwater, but the de facto moratorium in shallow water and the ...
I am very disappointed that our witnesses don't include any representative of the Obama Administration.
The economic threat continues worse than ever because of this moratorium.
if the formal and de facto moratoria continue for six months or more, what revenue impact will your jurisdiction and your local school syste...
If this moratorium continues even a few more months, we will lose more jobs because of it than we will lose from the oil itself.
Right. And just to be clear for the record, as of three weeks ago, the number of those new drilling permits in shallow since the Deepwater H...
This moratorium is not about big oil. It is rather about the Calais, the Sheramies, Depueys, the Roberts, the Boudreauxes, and the Thibodaux...
We cannot close down the Gulf offshore oil and gas sector without devastating economic impacts to our region, increased environmental risk t...
Oil and gas is the lifeblood of our economy, from top to bottom, and that blood has stopped pumping due to nothing more than political postu...
I ask the Administration to please lift the moratorium, not in October or November or September, but today.
the moratorium's spillover effect could mean 12,000 jobs and nearly three billion nationwide.
The decision to stop virtually all new energy exploration in the Gulf was uninformed, in my view, and it borders on reckless.
This ill-conceived and heavy-handed action by the Federal Government does not meet our environmental needs, our national security needs, and...
I am going to put the full weight of this committee behind the lifting of this moratorium as soon as possible.
I believe the action to impose this moratorium has actually increased environmental risk to our oceans and coastal wetlands.
Our Federal Government has a responsibility, particularly in these difficult times, to make sure that these paychecks do not turn into pink ...
