US and Canada Split Over Lake Erie Drilling (Seems Canada is Not Afraid of Offshore Drilling)

The Buffalo News ^ | July 28, 2008 | Jerry Zremski

[PGR88]

How many gas and oil wells are in Lake Erie? If you guessed 480, you would be correct. How many are American? Zero.

Offshore drilling has become one of the hot political issues in a new era of $4-a-gallon gasoline.

But no one is pushing for drilling off the north shore of the United States — except the Canadians.

As it has for many years, a Canadian oil and gas company is pumping natural gas out of 480 wells in Lake Erie, most of them toward the eastern end of the lake.

Congress, meanwhile, has not undertaken any serious discussion of lifting the long-standing ban on oil and gas drilling in the U. S. waters of the Great Lakes.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[calex59]

This tells you something, as socialist as Canada has become they are still drilling for oil and gas while we, supposedly the bastion of free enterprise(what a joke)sit on our thumbs(which are stuck up a dark place) and let our country run out of energy so we can all be equally poor and destitute.

[Foolsgold]

If you are tired of paying high prices for fuel, These 2 people as "leaders" of congress, Are blocking the vote from coming to the floor. We need to send Mail, good old snail mail, mountains of it, so when they return in September the voice of the people will be heard.
Please send this to all in your email list.

             
Cut fuel prices Drill 4 oil now

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Actually, we Canadians have our own offshore drilling bans — specifically, off the Pacific coast. It's a matter of some controversy now.

[Flycatcher]

A major spill could likely permanently kill one of the Great Lakes.”

Oh, really? Perhaps they should look up the word "permanently" and find out what it means.

[MaineConservative]

Drill here in the GREAT LAKES, Drill NOW.

[polymuser]

Boy, could Michigan ever use some oil funding.

[Oztrich Boy]

A major spill could likely permanently kill one of the Great Lakes.”

That's OK. Lake Erie already died in the 1960s anyway

[headstamp 2]

“A major spill could likely permanently kill one of the Great Lakes.”

That's OK. Lake Erie already died in the 1960s anyway”

That's what I was going to say. Hell, they used to catch fire now and then. I remember watching a show where a father and son used to share quality time shooting rats scurrying across the swill on top of the lake.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Along with the word “kill”.

[VOA]

US and Canada Split Over Lake Erie Drilling
(Seems Canada is Not Afraid of Offshore Drilling)

Well, Pelosi, Reid and millions of American EnviroWingnuts
do have one clear policy:

American Oil Companies getting American oil: BAD
Socialist/Communistic/Kleptocratic companies getting oil any place,
any time, and by any sloppy methods necessary: GOOD.
No, VERY VERY VERY GOOD!!!!!

Surely Pelosi, Reid and those Millions of American EnviroWingnuts
are doing this to make $$$$$ on their trust-fund holdings in
oil companies AND are short-selling the rest of the stock sectors.

Something that that stock-options genius Hillary! Clinton probably
has advised them to do.

[kempo]

But oil makes Harry sick.