US Interior Secretary breaks with ‘drill-only’ energy policy

WASHINGTON (AFP)


What Salazar called a “midnight action” by the previous administration favored big oil while ignoring developers of renewable energy.

It would have moved forward from 2012 to 2010 the creation of a new energy development plan that would affect some 300 million offshore acres on the outer continental shelf (OCS), from the US eastern seaboard to the Pacific Ocean off California, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

Salazar also decried the previous administration’s decision to give the public just six weeks to comment on the proposal.

AFP