Oregon Legislature Seeks Extended Ban on Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling
By
Johnny Kilroy
on February 16, 2010 
Today, February 16, 13:15 PST, the Oregon Senate’s Environment and Natural Resources Committee will hold a public hearing on a bill that would prevent drilling off the Oregon coast for oil and gas.
February 8, the Oregon House of Representatives passed the new bill, HB 3613, to extend a now expired drilling moratorium to 2020.
If the bill passes, then it will once again bar oil and gas leases in Oregon coastal waters, which stretch for three nautical miles from the shore. Past that point is purview of the Federal government.
(Oregon coast, near Charleston. Photo: Johnny Kilroy)
Representatives Ben Cannon (D-Portland) and Deborah Boone (D-Cannon Beach), who introduced the new legislation at the end of last year, took an active stance against the future potential of oil and gas development.
Cannon initially sought a permanent ban, telling the Portland Tribune that allowing the moratorium to expire “would send the wrong message.”
Opposition came out of the woodwork, though. Brian Doherty, of Western States Petroleum Association, opposed the permanent ban in his testimony before the House Environment and Water Committee in a public hearing, February 2.
“We don’t think permanent bans make sense,” Doherty says. “I would say you ought to revisit it every four or five years.”
(Steve Law, Portland Tribune, 10 Dec 2009)
Oregon’s coast is not rich in oil and gas, and so it hasn’t beckoned developers.
(Offshore drill rig. Photo: Shutterstock.com)
Those who oppose offshore oil and gas development include people in the environmental, fishing, renewable energy, and tourism communities, which would all be adversely impacted by drilling operations.
Some believe that oil and gas exploration would drive down the overall affluence of Oregon’s coastal economies. Environment America, in an October 2009 report, said that on the entire Pacific Coast sustainable business has about three times the value of non-renewable oil and gas extraction. Liz Hamilton, of Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association, told the Oregon Statesman Journal that the economic benefits of tourism, as well as sport and commercial fishing, have more than ten times the value of extractable oil and gas in the region.
To date, the has been entirely one of contingency, with no actual project proposals in sight.
But then…“Drill, baby, drill.”
Follow the progress of the bill, here.
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