A barge company responsible for a Mississippi River oil spill that significantly damaged shoreline habitat in south Louisiana in 2008 has agreed to pay $2.1 million in damages and buy and preserve a wildlife habitat just miles from downtown New Orleans.
Louisiana gov urges feds to resume offshore leases in months
Louisiana’s governor urged the federal government on Thursday to resume offshore oil and gas leasing within months.
The head of the federal agency that runs offshore lease sales didn’t say whether sales will resume.
it’s important to support the oil and gas industry even as the nation moves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, said Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat who has set ambitious climate goals in a state where petroleum fuels the economy and underwrites coastal restoration.
“I’m a governor of an energy producing state but also a state that’s on the front lines of climate crisis,” he told the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources..
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Louisiana’s governor urged the federal government on Thursday to resume offshore oil and gas leasing within months.
The head of the federal agency that runs offshore lease sales didn’t say whether sales will resume.
it’s important to support the oil and gas industry even as the nation moves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, said Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat who has set ambitious climate goals in a state where petroleum fuels the economy and underwrites coastal restoration.