2016 LA Senate race: on Energy & Oil

Foster Campbell: Build Keystone pipeline; no farcking regulation for now

A: Yes

Q: Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?

A: Yes

Q: Do you support increased regulations on the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") industry?

A: No. I will continue to listen to and study scientific evidence that would support further regulation.

Foster Campbell: Regulate greenhouse gases; incentivize reducing emissions

A: Yes

Q: Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?

A: Yes. I will continue to incentivize reducing emissions so that we don't damage the economy while we save the environment.

Thomas Clements: No cap and trade; no taxing carbon emissions

A: New Technology should [be developed] in a free trade˙market of private enterprise.˙No cap and trade taxing carbon emissions.

Foster Campbell: Charge 6.25% oil refining tax and wipe out income tax

Currently, foreign oil refined in Louisiana is not taxed by the state, Campbell said. If a tax were enacted, it would generate $5 billion or more, making it possible to wipe out the income tax and improve the state's education, highway and medical systems. "We have squandered our natural resources," Campbell said. "The politicians have been too cozy with the oil companies." Simply taxing international oil corporations isn't enough, however. Campbell also plans to ask them to pay the state for damages they have caused to its coast--approximately $20 billion, he said.