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US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar defended plans to increase oil and gas royalties and fees on federal leases as he testified Mar. 3 before a US Senate committee on his department’s fiscal 2011 budget request.
Independent producers converged on US Senate and House members’ offices Mar. 2 to advocate for federal policies that encourage the development of natural gas.
US Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) urged House Natural Resources Committee leaders to schedule hearings on the economic costs of continued delays in offshore oil and gas development a week after the first major report on the subject was released.
Repeating a point that he made in his State of the Union address on Jan. 27, US President Barack Obama told business executives that his administration is willing to make tough decisions on opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development.
Approval by Virginia’s senate and house of a bill allocating future offshore energy royalties and revenues to transportation and alternative energy research signals that the state is ready for environmentally responsible development off its coast, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell said.
We are all too familiar with George Santayana’s admonition that “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat.” Of course Mark Twain thought that “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” In either case memory is short especially when it comes to making policy.
 Snow worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining Oil & Gas Journal as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He began writing about energy in 1975 with an award-winning series of articles about western boom towns as a reporter for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, where he worked for seven years. |
