# OBAMA CAN’T RENEGE ON WETLAND PROMISE

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2015/02/obama-cant-renege-on-wetland-promise/
- Published: 2015-02-04T03:10:32-05:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

## America’s WETLAND Foundation Calls on President to keep national promise

New Orleans, La. – Following years of hard fights in Congress to gain recognition
of the role played by Louisiana in supporting energy security. For the moves by 
the Obama Administration today to take back Outer Continental Shelf revenues shared
with Gulf states. Well it has the America’s WETLAND Foundation (AWF) calling foul.

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It was a bi-partisan act of Congress led by former Senator Mary Landrieu and Senator
David Vitter that finally passed an increase in revenues coming to energy producing
states from offshore oil development. Appearing on WWL Radio’s Garland Robinette
show, AWF’s senior advisor, Sidney Coffee, called the reneging of a promise by the
U.S. “_unfortunate but not surprising_.”

### **Wetlands Need a Promise by Americans**

First of all, what happens on our coast affects everyone. Especially all throughout
the nation. That’s because we support America’s energy development. Yet we don’t
look at the  impacts. So we deserve the support; it is not an entitlement to have
a clean environment.

> _“In the back of our minds, when we built the national coalition in Congress to
> get this passed, we worried that the closer the time came for the money to kick
> in, there would be a grab for the money, and this is what we’re seeing now. This
> legislation passed as essential to the national economy and not a give-away in
> any sense,” Coffee added._

The irony of the Administration’s move is that interior states share royalties on
minerals to the tune of 50% and Louisiana and other Gulf Coast producing states 
share a fraction of that amount, only moving higher in 2017.

**_Source: America’s WETLAND Foundation _****_[http://www.americaswetland.com](http://www.americaswetland.com)_**

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