{"id":5268,"date":"2012-06-27T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2012-06-27T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:20:56","slug":"from-msnbc-some-offshore-arctic-waters-to-be-leased-for-energy-drilling-us-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/from-msnbc-some-offshore-arctic-waters-to-be-leased-for-energy-drilling-us-says\/","title":{"rendered":"(from MSNBC)  &#8216;Some offshore Arctic waters to be leased for energy drilling, US says&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Parts of America\u2019s Arctic waters, long a battleground between environmentalists and the energy industry, will be open for oil and natural gas drilling in four years, the Obama administration said Tuesday &#8212; the same day Shell announced it had successfully tested a new spill containment system for its planned Arctic exploration this summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Details will be released Thursday, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters the idea is to adopt &#8220;targeted leasing&#8221; &#8212; opening some areas in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas for drilling\u00a0while\u00a0protecting others critical for native subsistence and ecosystem health.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/06\/26\/12422295-some-offshore-arctic-waters-to-be-leased-for-energy-drilling-us-says?lite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5269\" title=\"120626_kulluk.photoblog600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/120626_kulluk.photoblog600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/120626_kulluk.photoblog600.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/120626_kulluk.photoblog600-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE JUNE\/JULY Z <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/06\/26\/12422295-some-offshore-arctic-waters-to-be-leased-for-energy-drilling-us-says?lite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 Parts of America\u2019s Arctic waters, long a battleground between environmentalists and the energy industry, will be open for oil and natural gas drilling in four years, the Obama administration said Tuesday &#8212; the same day Shell announced it had successfully tested a new spill containment system for its planned Arctic exploration this summer.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}