Sentence examples for debate drilling from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, in the current energy debate, drilling for oil and gas, and mining for coal -- the planet-heating "business as usual" strategies championed by John McCain and Sarah Palin -- are viewed as far more manly and macho.

He is not using a lectern for mock debate drills, despite suggestions from some on his coaching team that simulating a one-on-one debate is good practice after the primary debates that featured several rivals.

"We are debating drilling in the ANWR so oil companies can export oil to China, Japan and other parts of the world," he said.

But whether it was PR panache on the inspector general's part or a happy coincidence, yesterday's reports came just as Congress is set to debate expanding offshore drilling.

Congress must debate offshore drilling on its own merits without using resource revenue to buy votes.

I object to the way "A New York Village's Debate Over Drilling Turns Personal" (front page, Oct. 30) paints a picture of divisiveness in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Amid the noise on either side of the debate over drilling, members of the Marcellus Shale Documentary Project have been quietly canvassing the Pennsylvania countryside to document the people and places caught up in the state's gas boom.

A leading question in the debate over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska is whether wilderness can coexist with oil wells on America's only Arctic coast.

Consider the debate over drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Leaky gas wells loom large in debate over drilling's impact on water quality.

But the oil companies are clearly piling on, and the debate about drilling off our beaches is just an attempt to change the subject.