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Matt Vespa writes in The San Jose Mercury News: "On June 29 the Bush administration quietly approved a keystone of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy policy: furthering our addiction to oil through the 5-Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program." Vespa continues, "the program governs the sale of all offshore oil and gas leases in federal waters over the next five years and anticipates the drilling of more than 10 billion barrels of oil and more than 45 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in some of our most pristine and sensitive marine habitats."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080907EB.shtml



Quarter of America's Oil Flows Through Sinking Louisiana Land

Nicholas Varchaver reports for Fortune Magazine on a new energy crisis that is occurring as southern Louisiana, the conduit for more than a quarter of America's oil, sinks into the sea.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080907EC.shtml



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