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Article: Bush slaps wide ban on offshore drilling
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 27, 1990
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WASHINGTON President Bush on Tuesday banned new oil drilling on
a sizable perimeter of the United States for the rest of the century,
saying more time is needed to study production potential and to weigh
environmental impact.
Bush declared an embargo on leasing activity on 99 percent of
the California coast, the outer continental shelf extending the
length of Oregon and Washington, within a 14 million-acre tract
surrounding the Florida Keys and in an area from Rhode Island to the
Canadian border.
"My desire is to achieve a balance between the need to provide
energy for the American people and the need to protect unique and