Environment News Service: The Bush administration is putting plans in place to approve more than 118,000 new gas and oil wells on public land across the western United States, double the current amount of producing wells on public lands throughout the Rocky Mountains. The plans are documented in a new report released Wednesday by The Wilderness Society, which the drilling boom would have devastating impacts to wildlife and local communities. ... Bush's Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has hand-picked former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond to lead an influential study to develop policy solutions to America's energy crisis! In no way can we allow ExxonMobil and Big Oil to decide our energy future! Tell Sec. Bodman to pull the project from Lee Raymond and his oil industry cronies and give it to an independent body NOT tangled up in Big Oil. When the future of our environment hinges on buying and burning less oil, isn't it obvious that the last people who should be charting that course are the ones in the oil industry itself? ExxonMobil's Lee Raymond doesn't hold his opinions back: he has repeatedly criticized policies to help combat global warming, attempts to achieve energy independence, and investments in renewable energy. » Link Original news (via EcologicalInternet.org& hugg.com)Oct 20, 2006
Exxon & Massive Increase in Oil and Gas Wells
Environment News Service: The Bush administration is putting plans in place to approve more than 118,000 new gas and oil wells on public land across the western United States, double the current amount of producing wells on public lands throughout the Rocky Mountains. The plans are documented in a new report released Wednesday by The Wilderness Society, which the drilling boom would have devastating impacts to wildlife and local communities. ... Bush's Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has hand-picked former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond to lead an influential study to develop policy solutions to America's energy crisis! In no way can we allow ExxonMobil and Big Oil to decide our energy future! Tell Sec. Bodman to pull the project from Lee Raymond and his oil industry cronies and give it to an independent body NOT tangled up in Big Oil. When the future of our environment hinges on buying and burning less oil, isn't it obvious that the last people who should be charting that course are the ones in the oil industry itself? ExxonMobil's Lee Raymond doesn't hold his opinions back: he has repeatedly criticized policies to help combat global warming, attempts to achieve energy independence, and investments in renewable energy. » Link Original news (via EcologicalInternet.org& hugg.com)