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Oil Drilling Plan Fails to Get Support of Most Oklahomans in House |
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By Jerry Hohnen |
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September 17, 2008 |
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The off-shore oil and gas drilling plan proposed by Democrats won approval Tuesday in the U.S. House but without the support of Oklahoma Republican Representatives Tom Cole, Mary Fallin, Frank Lucas and John Sullivan. Representative Dan Boren, a Democrat sided with the majority. "It contains no language to build new nuclear power plants or oil refineries," argued Representative Frank Lucas during floor debate. "While it claims to allow off-shore oil drilling, it actually keeps 88 percent under lock and key." He and and other critics of the plan called it a ruse. Representative Mary Fallin labeled it the 'no energy' bill. "It's political theater," cried Dan Simmons, a spokesman with the Institute for Energy Research who was interviewed Wednesday on KTOK's First News with Reid Mullins. "It's not a good bill if you want additional energy exploration for the simple fact it puts the majority of our energy resources off the table." Under the measure, oil and gas exploration will be allowed only beyond a 50-mile limit off the coasts and each state affected by the drilling would have to okay it. # # # |
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