Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Johanna Mendelson-Forman, a senior fellow with the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Cheney Oil Comment Attacked."
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Johanna Mendelson-Forman, a senior fellow with the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Cheney Oil Comment Attacked."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney's office acknowledged on Thursday that he was mistaken when he asserted that China, at Cuba's behest, is drilling for oil in waters 60 miles from the Florida coast.
There is no actual drilling yet. ... There is exploration," said Johanna Mendelson-Forman, a senior fellow on energy and Latin America at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
She said China's oil company, Sinopac, has conducted exploratory drilling on a lease on land in western Cuba, but is not involved in the offshore development.
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