Bush ends offshore drilling ban
14/7/08
George Bush, the US president, has lifted an executive ban on oil drilling on the US outer-continental shelf, the White House has said, improving prospects for oil exploration projects to go ahead in the region. Dana Perino, a White House spokeswoman, said earlier on Monday that Bush had lifted the executive order because the Democrat-led congress had failed to act on his recommendation in June that restrictions on offshore drilling be lifted. Perino said Bush’s order to drop the ban would not automatically clear the way for exploration because “congress has to act as well” to lift legislative restrictions on drilling activity. The move towards exploiting regions off US shores is strongly opposed by environmentalists.
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/07/ 2008714153729182635.html
Tags: Environment, USA