72-Year-Old Fisher Hunger Strikes to Press Biden to Revive Crude Oil Export Ban
Diana Wilson s truck, Rosie, parked at the causeway of Texas Lavaca Bay at Point Comfort on April 20, 2021.
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Seventy-two-year-old, fourth-generation retired shrimper Diane Wilson has been without food for 16 days. Her 1995 red Chevy, nicknamed âRosie,â has become a mobile campsite, and each morning she posts up on a causeway at the waterfront of Texasâs Lavaca Bay, expending just enough energy to switch out a sign displaying the number of days sheâs been on hunger strike and drape a banner off the side of the truck blaring the message: âSTOP THE DREDGING. STOP OIL EXPORT.â
Key Leaders & Groups Urge Biden Administration To Deny Pending Deepwater Port Fossil Fuel Export Facilities Proposed export facilities would accommodate the global export of massive quantities of crude oil on shipping vessels known as Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs)
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Today, a coalition of local, regional and national environmental and community groups sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging them to take necessary action to stop several deepwater port terminals proposed throughout the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts. If built, these terminals would drive the global export of massive quantities of domestically-extracted crude oil on shipping vessels known as Very Large Crude Carriers (“VLCCs”), each as large as the Empire State Building.
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US crude oil exports face challenges amid lower output
US crude oil export flows that managed to stay afloat for much of 2020 are expected to sink in 2021 as decreased US output and recovering domestic refinery runs will mean fewer barrels to export.
Production is expected to average only 10.44 million b/d in 2021 but will gradually recover to pre-COVID levels around 12.8 million b/d by late 2023, according to Platts Analytics.
With fewer barrels available for export, total US crude exports are expected to decline to an average of 2.2 million b/d during 2021, down 1.0 million b/d from 2020 and far below the pre-COVID forecast of around 4 million b/d.