Petrobras' Cascade and Chinook oilfields are located in the Walker Ridge block, around 300km (180 miles) south of the Louisiana coast, in the Gulf of Mexico.
Drill baby, drill obviously means something else to Mr. Dunham than what regular Americans thought it meant.
Those deposits should be America's, not anyone else.
The exclusive economic zone is the zone where the U.S. and other coastal nations have jurisdiction over economic and resource management
More specifically, the EEZ includes waters three to 200 miles (five to 322 kilometers) offshore (or nine to 200 miles – 14.5 to 322 kilometers – offshore in western Florida and Texas). Coastal states are responsible for inshore waters out to three miles (five kilometers) of the coast (or nine miles, 14.5 kilometers, off the west coast of Florida and off Texas).
I'm so livid I could scream!