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With Big Oil raking $36 billion in profits, on March 1, 2011, Rep. William Keating (D-MA) offered a motion on the House floor, saying, “let’s stop sending taxpayer’s money to the most profitable companies in the world,”
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Tucson -
BP's catastrophe last year in the Gulf of Mexico that spilled more than 205 million gallons of oil into the ocean's waters, the result of fundamental dangers not being addressed, has led to a new report calling for an end to all new offshore drilling.
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Washington -
After investigative reports substantiated allegations of graft among other infractions that occured at one Minerals Management Service (MMS) branch charged with overseeing offshore oil leases and regulations, Ken Salazar has revamped the agency.
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New Orleans -
A judge ruled on a case brought to court by Hornbeck Offshore Services, lifting the US Department of the Interior's six-month ban on offshore drilling.
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L'aquila -
The oil spill disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico does not seem to alarm politicians in Italy, where the government is going ahead to permit offshore drilling a mere five kilometres off the coastline, close to where a 2009 earthquake hit L'Aquila.
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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is behind a plan to dump up to 1,200 liters of crude oil in the Arctic Ocean in a bid to test clean-up responses.
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Toronto -
It has been 40 years since the Earth Day became cause célèbre in North America. We have come a long way and still have a long way to go, according to activists.
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John McCain adjusted his position on offshore drilling in response to high gas prices and public opinion showing the majority of voters are now in favor of offshore drilling. Barack Obama is now indicating that he too is willing to compromise.
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As gas prices rise, the topic of offshore drilling is rapidly becoming an issue going into the November elections. John McCain has recently come out in support of offshore drilling and Barack Obama is against it. Public opinion is favoring McCain's stance
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Offshore drilling Headlines
 Statoil says it has reached a deal for a rig to drill three wells in the Newfoundland offshore in 2012 and 2013.
South Shields-based McNulty Offshore calls in administrators with the loss of 100 jobs.
Search begins for Cuba's offshore oil deposits
Cuba is to begin exploratory drilling in search of oil - this weekend a rig will begin drilling for oil just 100 kilometres from Florida.
Disaster management forces in the Indian capital, Delhi, are to hold a massive drill to assess preparedness in the event of a big earthquake.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation to ban offshore oil drilling, an attempt to curb disasters such as the ongoing BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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