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Posted at 06:16 PM ET, 06/28/2012
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Republicans pounced on President Obama on Thursday afternoon for his
administration’s failure to include Virginia in the final five-year plan for
offshore oil and gas drilling.
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But it wasn’t just Republicans complaining. Sen. Jim Webb (D) joined the
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“I regret that the administration failed to include Virginia in its proposed
final five-year lease plan,” Webb said. “Energy exploration . . . would
boost domestic energy production, while benefiting the commonwealth’s
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The plan announced Thursday postpones drilling off Virginia’s coast until
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“Once again, the Obama administration has demonstrated that they will
not allow the safe and responsible development of oil and gas energy
resources off of Virginia’s coast,’’ Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) said.
“Offshore energy exploration and development would mean thousands of
new jobs and millions in new revenue here in the commonwealth.
Virginians need the jobs and America needs the energy.”
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Most of Virginia’s elected officials, regardless of political party, have
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expressed interest in drilling, saying production would bring thousands of
jobs and millions of dollars to the financially strapped state. But many
have expressed caution after the deadly explosion in the Gulf of Mexico
last year that created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
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Obama had announced that Virginia would become one of the first East
Coast states to drill offshore. But the administration postponed lease
sales after the spill and never included Virginia in subsequent plans.
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The last study of the Atlantic Ocean by the federal government,
conducted two decades ago, estimates that at least 130 million barrels of
oil and at least 1.14 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could be off Virginia’s
coast. That’s equal to the amount of oil used in six days and the amount
of gas used in less than a month in the United States.
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Many experts think tests in similar geographic areas in other parts of the
world and limited seismic work off Virginia’s coast indicate that there is
far more oil and natural gas offshore, although no one has been able to
show accurately what is there because of federal restrictions.
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