[CPEO-MEF] Navy opposes oil drilling off Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military opposes offshore Va. drilling plan

By DALE EISMAN
The Virginian-Pilot
April 27, 2006


WASHINGTON - The military wants oil and gas drillers to stay out of 
waters off the Virginia coast, where it says energy exploration would 
interfere with weapons tests and the training of thousands of service 
members each year.

The Pentagon told a key regulatory agency this month that a proposal to 
open the area to drilling also could endanger oil company employees and 
equipment.

"The Navy requires unencumbered access to the full expanse" of this 
area, and other service branches also use it extensively, Donald 
Schregardus , the service's deputy assistant secretary for environment, 
wrote in a letter to the federal Minerals Management Service.

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http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=103567&ran=37829

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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