2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 27 Apr 2006 16:09:55 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Navy opposes oil drilling off Virginia
 
Military opposes offshore Va. drilling plan

By DALE EISMAN
The Virginian-Pilot
April 27, 2006


WASHINGTON - The military wants oil and gas drillers to stay out of waters off the Virginia coast, where it says energy exploration would interfere with weapons tests and the training of thousands of service members each year.


The Pentagon told a key regulatory agency this month that a proposal to open the area to drilling also could endanger oil company employees and equipment.

"The Navy requires unencumbered access to the full expanse" of this area, and other service branches also use it extensively, Donald Schregardus , the service's deputy assistant secretary for environment, wrote in a letter to the federal Minerals Management Service.

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For the entire article, see
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=103567&ran=37829

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