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Government Relations and Policy

NY Times Ad Facts

Need more information on the facts in WWF’s advertisement in the New York Times? Below are the sources for our advertisement.

  • Energy Information Administration, World Proved Crude Oil Reserves, January 2008, at http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/crudeoilreserves.xls.
  • Department of Energy's Annual Energy Outlook 2007 http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html
  • House Committee on Natural Resources report, “The Truth About America’s Energy: Big Oil Stockpiles Supplies and Pocket Profits.” June 2008
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service comments on the Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) 2007-2012 Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. September 21, 2005
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration web site with data on fish catch http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/
  • Economic and non-economic costs of Exxon Valdez oil spill. src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sakhalin/eng/71/steiner5.html
  • Oil Spill Response Challenges in Arctic Waters. Commissioned report by WWF, developed by Nuka Research and Planning Group, LLC. October 2007
  • U.S. Minerals Management Service, Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2007-2012, Final Environmental Impact Statement (April 2007), available at http://www.mms.gov/5-year/2007-2012_FEIS.htm.
  • Proponents of more oil and gas drilling on federal public lands and waters to lower gasoline prices ignore the reality that the United States has more oil and gas rigs operating today than the rest of the world in its entirety:
  • According to Baker-Hughes, the Houston oil industry service company, as of July 8, the U.S. had 1,928 drilling rigs operating on our lands and waters, compared to 1,512 rigs operating throughout the rest of the world. (http://investor.shareholder.com/bhi/rig_counts/rc_index.cfm)
  • Moreover, the U.S. has over 800,000 producing oil and gas wells (on federal and non-federal lands).  According to EIA data, the U.S. has 466,641 producing natural gas wells (http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/ng/ng_prod_wells_s1_a.htm), and 336,088 oil wells (http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petrosystem/us_table.html).
  • Between 2001 and 2007, the Bush Administration offered over 343,663,225 acres of leases in the Outer Continental Shelf, and sold over 33,237,574 acres to oil and gas companies. (http://www.mms.gov/stats/OCSleases.htm)

 

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