Clinton is critical of the department of interior’s draft plan for drilling in areas off the coast of Virginia,North Carolina, South Carolina and GeorgiaHillary Clinton has said she is “very sceptical” of the need to drill for oil or gas off the United States’ eastern seaboard, and despite the Obama administration putting forward proposals that would open up huge tracts of the ocean for fossil fuel extraction.
Clinton’s doubts follow her public opposition to the Keystone oil pipeline,which Obama halted, and Shell’s oil exploration in the Arctic, and which the president allowed only for Shell to then scrap its drilling plans.
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Source: theguardian.com