Bowles-Burr Debate: on Environment


Erskine Bowles: No offshore drilling off NC coast

Some excerpts from the Bowles-Burr debate: On offshore drilling

BURR: 'We have to make sure that we don't allow exploration off our coast for wells."

BOWLES: "Richard, again your words don't match your action." -- Bowles, saying that Burr had voted six times against legislation to protect the Outer Banks and prevent offshore drilling

Source: Winston-Salem Journal, "NC Senatorial Debate Excerpts"

Richard Burr: No offshore drilling off NC coast

Some excerpts from the Bowles-Burr debate: On offshore drilling

BURR: 'We have to make sure that we don't allow exploration off our coast for wells."

BOWLES: "Richard, again your words don't match your action." -- Bowles, saying that Burr had voted six times against legislation to protect the Outer Banks and prevent offshore drilling

Source: Winston-Salem Journal, "NC Senatorial Debate Excerpts"

  • The above quotations are from North Carolina Senatorial Debate, between Erskine Bowles (D) and Richard Burr (R), Sept. 28, 2004.
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