Interior chief (Salazar) cool to offshore drilling, wants wind projects

[kristopher]

Interior chief cool to offshore drilling, wants wind projects

By STACY SHELTON

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is applying the brakes on a Bush administration plan to open the Atlantic and Pacific coasts — including Georgia’s — to oil and natural gas drilling, while promising a “new way forward” for offshore wind projects.

Salazar on Tuesday criticized the Bush administration’s “drill only approach,” saying the U.S. needs a comprehensive energy plan that considers all the potential resources in the oceans.
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“I intend to do what the prior administration failed to do … incorporate the great potential for wind, wave and ocean tides,” Salazar said.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the Atlantic coast does not have great potential for either oil or natural gas production.

Turning wind energy into electricity could prove more fruitful. A 2007 estimate ...

continued at http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/02/10/drilling_off_Georgia.html

[msongs]

1. tap into the Gulf Stream - 4mph of endless constant energy waiting for us...

must be a useful way to do this. especially if oil companies cannot be included in this project.

Msongs