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California Must Support 'No New Offshore Drilling' From Alaska, to North Carolina

by Tomas DiFiore
China (SINOPEC) and Malaysia (Petronas) both state owned companies, under repressive regimes, own leases and drilling rights from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. America's Resources are being exploited for the sake of foreign countries. As Americans look towards renewables and clean energy, corporate international trade policies are selling the dirty polluting resources and drilling rights, to willing buyers – Asia, which have to commit to leaving their own hydrocarbon reserves in the ground.
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California Must Support 'No New Offshore Drilling' From Alaska, to North Carolina

As a part of the proposed 5-year offshore oil and gas development plan, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is required to consider direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental impacts of oil and gas activities that could result from lease sales under the proposed program.

In its most recent assessment report, the IPCC states that about two-thirds of existing fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground in order to have a likely chance of avoiding a global temperature increase of 2°C or higher – a level of warming that the Obama Administration has recognized would lead to catastrophic climate change.

It therefore makes no sense for the BOEM to offer vast areas of federal land for companies to explore and develop oil and gas resources that we know we cannot burn in a climate-safe world. The science is clear that developing these unexplored resources creates an unacceptable environmental risk.

Urge BOEM to consider not only the direct greenhouse gas emissions associated with oil and gas drilling activities, but to also prohibit leasing of any areas that cannot be developed under reasonable scenarios that stay within the 2°C limit.

Subject: Public comment on the proposed 2017-2022 offshore oil and gas leasing program.
http://action.priceofoil.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17503

China (SINOPEC) and Malaysia (Petronas) both state owned companies, under repressive regimes, own leases and drilling rights from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. America's Resources are being exploited for the sake of foreign countries. As Americans look towards renewables and clean energy, corporate international trade policies are selling the dirty polluting resources and drilling rights, to willing buyers – Asia, which have to commit to leaving their own hydrocarbon reserves in the ground.

Leave It In The Ground!

Visit Oil Change International
http://priceofoil.org/

In January 2015, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released the 2017-2022 Oil and Gas Leasing Program, a proposed 5-year plan for U.S. oil and gas development that includes ten potential lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, three in the Alaskan Arctic, and one in the Atlantic. The BOEM will prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to consider the environmental impacts, including climate change, of oil and gas development in these federally-owned areas.

In its most recent assessment report, the IPCC states that about two-thirds of existing fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground in order to have a likely chance of avoiding a global temperature increase of 2°C or higher – a level of warming that the Obama Administration has recognized would lead to catastrophic climate change. It therefore makes no sense for the BOEM to offer vast areas of federal land for companies to explore and develop oil and gas resources that we know we cannot burn in a climate-safe world. The science is clear that developing these unexplored resources creates an unacceptable environmental risk.

Given that we cannot afford to burn the vast majority of known reserves, the Administration should strengthen its ongoing efforts to transition the U.S. away from reliance on fossil fuels, rather than promoting development of some of the world’s most environmentally and financially risky oil and gas resources, like the Alaskan Arctic and deepwater offshore resources in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean.
http://action.priceofoil.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17503

Tomas DiFiore
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