This unnecessary bureaucratic foot-dragging frustrates the people of Virginia to safely explore for natural gas and oil off our coasts. Having worked for years to get Virginia out from this federal moratorium, I know Virginians and Americans would prefer the jobs, opportunities, revenues and resources coming from our lands and waters rather than continuing to be vulnerable to the whims of hostile dictators, oligarchs and cartels.

The current cock-eyed, convoluted policies of our federal government have billions of our American money being loaned to the State-owned oil company of Brazil so that they can extract oil and gas off their coast. Yet, the same government prohibits Virginians from exploring off our coasts and sharing lease revenues with the Commonwealth.

These folks in Washington are running on empty when it comes to common sense and logic. We must keep fighting for American energy freedom utilizing our plentiful coal, as well as oil and gas resources for Americans jobs, competitiveness, our quality of life and national security. We can’t let them get away with thwarting the will of we, the people. -George Allen

US Govt pushes any drilling off Virginia past 2011
Tue, Jan 26 2010
By Tom Doggett

* Earliest date for lease sale off Virginia coast is 2012
* Offshore lease area may hold 130 million barrels of oil
* New Virginia governor wants leasing plan to go forward

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The federal government’s controversial plan to allow oil and gas drilling off Virginia’s coast will be delayed, frustrating energy companies who for years have pushed for access to more offshore areas.

The delay also derails a recent request from Virginia’s new governor for the U.S. Interior Department to lease the offshore tracts to oil and gas companies as scheduled and creates more uncertainty over whether the drilling plan will ever be carried out.

The federal government’s current five-year drilling plan, which was drawn up under the Bush administration, calls for leasing almost 3 million acres in a triangular area located about 50 miles off the Virginia shoreline in November 2011.

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