Congressman Doc Hastings Moves OCS Legislation With Bipartisan Help - RDC Hears PacRim Coal's Environmental Message - We're Off To The Races!

Congressman Doc Hastings Moves OCS Legislation With Bipartisan Help – RDC Hears PacRim Coal’s Environmental Message – We’re Off To The Races!

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"Mining and Fish" were the focus of the Resource Development Council for Alaska’s (RDC) early morning meeting today in the Anchorage Convention Center when PacRim Coal’s Project Manager Dan Graham (NGP Photo) inventoried the mining-fish relationships and history in Alaska. See Video Here. (Event Photos below.)

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2011 – Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1230, the Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act, with a bipartisan vote of 266 to 149. Introduced by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (NGP Photo), H.R. 1230 requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct oil and natural gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Virginia that have been delayed or canceled by the Obama Administration.

“Gasoline prices are pennies away from $4 per gallon nationally and Gulf oil production is scheduled to significantly decline over the next two years due to Obama Administration’s anti-energy actions. The bill that passed today reverses President Obama’s decision to arbitrarily cancel lease sales that will result in increased American energy production and job creation,” said Chairman Hastings. “Continued tensions in the Middle East serve as a reminder that increased American energy production is as much of a national security issue as it is about jobs and lowering gasoline prices. The United States has the most energy resources in the world and the American people are demanding that we utilize them to lower energy prices, create jobs and make American less dependent on unstable foreign energy. This bill is a good first step and we’ll continue this effort in the coming weeks with additional American Energy Initiative bills.”

Point of personal privilege. Tonight we are bound for the 2011 Kentucky Derby, a business meeting, fashion photos and reunion with Kentucky Colonels at the Churchill Downs Museum. Photos right, 5-1-10 Derby and, left, 5-23-10 making presentation to Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear in Lexington at the summer meeting of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.