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• Philippines' offshore oil field starts work
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines announced Thursday that it had begun pumping crude oil from its first oil field development in 16 years — a relief to the country amid ongoing global financial woes. Officials estimate that the Galoc oil field ...
• N.J. vows to 'race to the sea' for wind power
Garden State Offshore Energy won a license to build a wind farm off New Jersey and says this illustration is indicative of what turbines would look like off the coast at various distances. The GSOE plan is to build turbines 16-20 miles offshore ...
• Clinton's rejoinder: Jobs, baby, jobs
McCain and GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin back more offshore oil drilling; Palin favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Clinton said Democrats have a better answer: "Jobs, baby, jobs." Earlier in the day, she told about ...
• Biden decries 'unbecoming personal attacks'
Accusing businesses and wealthy individuals of using "offshore tax loopholes" to hide $100 billion a year in income, Biden told the crowd Sunday, "It is unpatriotic when you earn your money in the United States of America and you hide it offshore to ...
• Tropical storm hits Mexico's gulf coast
Mexico's state oil company said it had had evacuated 33 workers from four offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, closed six wells and shut down a natural gas processing plant in Veracruz state ahead of Marco's arrival. Mexico's Communications and ...