NOIA Echoes Call for Interior to Retain Proposed Atlantic OCS Lease Sale
February 29, 2016
National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi issued the following statement supporting the Atlantic Offshore Energy Caucus's call for DOI retention of proposed Atlantic lease sale:
"I am pleased that the Congressional Atlantic Offshore Energy Caucus has reinforced their support for oil and gas exploration and production off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia by calling on Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to keep the proposed Atlantic lease sale in the 2017-2022 OCS oil and gas leasing program. NOIA members also strongly support the proposed lease sale in the Atlantic OCS, an area which has not been included in a leasing program since the 1980’s. In fact, over 85 percent of the outer continental shelf has been shuttered to exploration for decades. It is time that this decades-old ban is lifted.
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