Gulf of Mexico

CEA’s Brent Greenfield was interviewed by E&E News about the importance of ensuring America can benefit from sustainably produced domestic energy.

While industry may be fairly dismissive of the environmental groups now, officials at Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) believe this to be a mistake. They made their own presence known at the gathering yesterday afternoon in downtown Houston, warning that curtailing offshore opportunities risks needless energy shortages and future economic pain, even given the current global oil abundance and industry downturn from the fallen oil price. “We must continue oil and gas development in conjunction with safe environmental protections in the Gulf of Mexico,” said Brent Greenfield, senior policy director at CEA. “The people who are opposing this have no solution. They don’t have an answer. All they say is ‘no’ to energy development.”

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