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Everyone calls it "the play," a stratagem that deploys the ranchers who lease out their land, the crews who drill a well in three days, the landmen who track down mineral rights in hundred-year-old ledgers in county clerks' offices and the lawyers, contractors and equipment suppliers in Gillette, Wyo., who will be making a killing for as long as the boom lasts. Environmentalists worry about damage to the land from the drilling, but everyone agrees that burning natural gas generates far fewer pollutants than oil or coal. "This is a very exciting play," says Terry Dobkins, a vice...
...until recently, President Bush was pretty much ignoring the problem. It may have helped that many of the energy companies that could benefit from the state’s power companies were based in Texas. Or maybe he thought the crisis would boost his argument that we need to drill more oil and make his buddies from the oil industry even richer. But the Dems cut a few deals to bring electricity back to the state’s high but reasonable rates...
...Floridians have spoken loud and clear, and their voices have been heard by President Bush," Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday after Interior Secretary Gale Norton announced the administration would ask Congress to let oil companies drill on about 1.5 million more acres in the Gulf of Mexico. That's just a quarter of the roughly 6 million acres that the Clinton administration first proposed opening for leasing in 1997 and that the Bush/Cheney energy plan had earmarked for drilling...
...that everybody's happy - not even close. Most environmental groups would prefer not to drill at all, and Florida Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson, quickly dubbed the plan "the proverbial camel's nose under the tent." (Norton did say the plan would call for a reconsideration of its limits in six years.) And the energy industry and its friends in Congress are just plain appalled at Bush's lack of backbone...
Engineers then sank 41 parallel tubes diagonally under the foundation. A specialty designed auger--a giant drill bit--was inserted into each tube. A machine turned the augers one at a time to remove small amounts of soil over several months...