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Content Inside: Posted on Tue, May. 01, 2007 Off-shore oil drilling plan worries enviros, legislators Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. - Environmentalists and some New Jersey congressmen say a federal plan to allow drilling off the Virginia coast could result in oil spil ls reaching Garden State shores and open the to door to further drilling in the Atlantic. On Monday, the Secretary of the Interior Department outlined a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in more areas of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore in Alaska and - for the first time off the Virginia coast. The plan would allow the federal government to sell leases to drill off the Virginia coast by 2011. But before that can happen, both Congress and the President would have to lift drilling bans limiting oil and gas dev elopment offshore, said Gary Strasburg, a spokesman for the Minerals Management Service, which oversees oil, natural gas and other mineral resources
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Garden ... encourage more oil and gas drilling along other coastal states. ...
Content Inside: Posted on Tue, May. 01, 2007 Off-shore oil drilling plan worries enviros, legislators Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. - Environmentalists and some New Jersey congressmen say a federal plan to allow drilling off the Virginia coast could result in oil spil ls reaching Garden State shores and open the to door to further drilling in the Atlantic. On Monday, the Secretary of the Interior Department outlined a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in more areas of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore in Alaska and - for the first time off the Virginia coast. The plan would allow the federal government to sell leases to drill off the Virginia coast by 2011. But before that can happen, both Congress and the President would have to lift drilling bans limiting oil and gas dev elopment offshore, said Gary Strasburg, a spokesman for the Minerals Management Service, which oversees oil, natural gas and other mineral resources
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