Gov. LePage's Membership in Drilling Group Unlikley to Change Gulf of Maine as Unlikely Site for Exploration
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Press Herald] By Tux Terkel - March 3, 2015 -
A coalition of U.S. governors pushing for more offshore oil and gas drilling turned heads in Maine last month when it announced that Gov. Paul LePage had become a member.
But LePage’s participation doesn’t foreshadow oil rigs off the Maine coast – the latest federal research suggests that the Gulf of Maine lacks the right geology to hold commercial deposits of oil or natural gas.
The assessment by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, updated last year, trimmed the already modest estimates in the North Atlantic to levels that virtually eliminate the...
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