A bipartisan group of Virginia lawmakers say the Interior Department move to open up Virginia’s coast to drilling is raising more questions than answers.
Some proponents of drilling off Virginia’s coast are dubious. The maps of natural resources off the eastern coast haven’t been updated in three decades, and Virginia Republican Congressman Rob Wittman says he thinks energy companies are dubious of this administration’s energy policies and won’t want to invest the resources necessary.
“I’m hopeful that the administration is going in a serious way to allow the development of the resource there, which I think accelerates the exploration there which I think is going to have to happen in order to determine what’s there, how much is there and how do you develop it.”
Virginia’s two Democratic Senators aren’t happy with the offshore proposal because it doesn’t allow the commonwealth to share the revenue with the federal government from drilling.
