They plastered the town with flyers reading "Denton moms oppose drilling ban" and warned that the ban would hurt city schools.
Shortly after the report appeared, the technical advisers angrily complained that while they had endorsed a number of the safety recommendations, they had not concurred that a blanket deepwater drilling ban was needed.
According to Shoemaker, Ocean Saratoga, which the company leased from Taylor Energy, is one of six Diamond Offshore floating rigs in the Gulf of Mexico but is not affected by the deep water drilling ban because it is working in less than 500 feet of water.
Eds: CORRECTS that Congress, not Obama, ended drilling ban and Obama recently announced plans to open some new areas.
As he has promised to do with so many of Obama's previous actions aimed at combatting climate change, Trump will likely try to do away with Arctic drilling ban.
The shallow water drilling ban recently lifted by President Barack Obama has given way to the approval of a new Gulf of Mexico oil well situated just 50 miles off of the coast of Louisiana and south of the state's Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge.
The drilling ban, he said, is costing thousands of Louisianans their jobs.
Until recently, states whose beaches attract lots of tourists have supported the drilling ban.
In New York in September, a Denver exploration company sued Dryden, a town near Ithaca, over a drilling ban.
Earlier this week, another state judge upheld a drilling ban in the town of Dryden in Tompkins County.
But on the drilling ban, it is clear she sees her position as the one that should carry the day.
