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Obama axes Atlantic drilling plan

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has slugged the US oil patch once again, using his final year in office to abandon plans for oil and gas drilling in Atlantic waters after strong opposition from the Pentagon and coastal communities.

Obama axes Atlantic drilling plan

The US had planned to auction off more than 100 million acres of the mid- and south-Atlantic in 2021 as part of its next five-year plan for lease sales, but Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell...

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