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Monday, July 28, 2014
API survey finds gap between voters, federal officials on development
A substantial gap exists between registered voters’ support for more
US oil and gas development on federal lands, and what they think federal
officials actually are doing about it, according to a recent survey commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute. Nielsen’s random telephone survey of 1,012 largely suburban
registered voters July 11-13 found 77% support more production of US oil
and gas, including 92% of Republicans, 80% of Independents, and 66% of
Democrats, API said on July 23. “But only 28% said the federal
government does enough to encourage domestic oil and gas development,”
API Upstream Group Director Erik Milito noted. “And 68%—including majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and
Independents—say they would be more likely to vote for candidates who
support offshore drilling,” he told reporters. “Clearly, voters do not
think energy should be a partisan issue.” The survey’s results came days after the US Bureau of Offshore Energy
Management (BOEM) moved a step closer to authorizing geological and
geophysical surveys of the South and Mid-Atlantic US Outer Continental
Shelf (OGJ Online, July 18, 2014). “These surveys will give our industry and the government a clearer
picture of the oil and gas resources hidden beneath the Atlantic
seafloor, although there is a lack of scientific support for some of the
constraints the government might place on survey operations,” Milito
said...more
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