Oil Worker United State Industry Protest New Deepwater Drilling Gulf
United State oil industry workers to protest lift the moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and head off new taxes and punitive measures in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill. Workers said they were concerned that the longer the moratorium went on the more jobs would be lost. Brenda Barnard, a Chevron employee, said she remembered how her father had been affected by the oil bust of the 1980s: “The longer this continues, eventually it will reach everybody.’’
Companies ranging from Chevron to Apache bussed in up to 5,000 employees to the Houston convention centre to underline to Washington the industry’s contribution to the country. The Houston rally was one of three held across Texas on Wednesday. Others are planned for Ohio, Illinois, New Mexico and Colorado in the next two weeks.
Organisers, which included the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s national trade organisation, said the oil and natural gas industry supported more than 9.2m jobs nationwide and accounted for 7.5 per cent of the US economy. It has invested nearly $2,000bn in US capital projects since 2000.
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