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To the Point

Oil, Gas and Wind on America's Atlantic Coastline

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Obama Administration is granting leases for offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic — while making other parts of the ocean available for developing wind farms. The President's calling for "all of the above," but advocates insist on important differences in energy generated, jobs created and potential threats to the environment.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm a Marnan. I host of To the Point in Which Way, L.A. And thanks so much for listening to our programs.

0:04.7

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0:26.8

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:34.5

In the Atlantic Ocean, is it both oil and wind?

0:41.5

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0:45.3

a daily look at the issues Americans caribout most.

0:48.1

Five years after the Gulf oil spill, the Obama administration has opened up thousands of offshore acres

0:53.4

from Virginia to Georgia for oil and gas drilling.

0:56.8

It's also made the ocean available for wind farms far out to sea.

1:00.6

Abiding by the energy strategy, the president calls all of the above.

1:04.7

State governors pushed for oil and gas drilling to create jobs,

1:08.0

but environmentalists say wind would create twice the energy and twice the

1:12.1

employment without the pollution or the greenhouse emissions. Today's talking point, U.S. diplomats and

1:18.0

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1:53.3

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1:54.5

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1:56.4

The Obama administration is granting leases for offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic while making

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