Ed Markey

The lessons of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy still ring loud and clear.

Rather than legislatively repeating the mistakes that led to the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster we should pass the broad reforms called for by the BP Commission so that our offshore drilling industry can be the safest in the world.

Even the simple and common-sense requirement that oil companies pay for the inspections of their own rigs has been rejected by the Republican Majority.

The Minerals Management Service... had become dysfunctional. Relationships with industry had become too cozy.

There is no longer any excuse for this Committee and this Congress to delay action on the broad reforms that are needed.

Even the simple and commonsense requirement that oil companies pay for the inspections of their own rigs has been rejected by the Republican majority.

You don't have to be Dick Tracey to see the speed-over-safety pattern running through the offshore drilling bills.

We have a choice to make.

Now we are at a crossroads. We have a choice to make--when the reorganization is complete, will those three parts resemble the three wise men or the three stooges.

The majority's discussion draft doesn't provide any dedicated funding stream for the Bureau of Ocean Energy.

The discussion draft could obscure the safety and resource management between the new agencies.

The majority has refused to take action on the broader legislation that Ranking Member Markey and I have introduced

This proposal, because the discussion draft differs from the reorganization of the department, will only delay permitting of drilling.

The safety of the workers is preserved, and that the economic needs of the country are met.

Approximately 70% of the Undiscovered Technically Recoverable Resources currently under lease in all areas of the Federal Gulf of Mexico are not producing or not subject to approved or pending exploration or development plans.

That is what this Administration is currently blocking, while all assuring us that they are really very sympathetic of this cause.

This simple and commonsense solution means vast quantities of hydroelectricity, without a single new dam, and at a cost to the government of precisely nothing.

It is truly mystifying that a nation suffering a prolonged recession... would adopt a willful and deliberate policy of obstructing construction of these inexpensive and innocuous generators.

I want to commend our Subcommittee Members, Scott Tipton and Paul Gosar, who are spearheading the effort to clear away these bureaucratic obstacles.

Through the gentlelady I would like to urge that we have a hearing on the risk premium which DOE and OMB are charging to the nuclear industry for loan guarantees post-Fukushima and post the Wall Street reassessment.

The majority has chosen to politicize this program and it is attempting to discredit clean energy the same way they have tried to do to climate science.

I have to compliment my Republican colleagues on their discipline, but after weighing these relentless and very serious allegations of lawbreaking and inappropriate politicization of the loan guarantee process, I am unconvinced.

This was not knowable in 2009. This was not knowable in 2010. This was a market intervention.

This 42 percent drop this year is as a result of the Chinese intervention in this marketplace.

We know we will never have a hearing on the oil industry or the nuclear industry in this committee.