BLM suspends oil, gas leases over rare ferretJoe Bauman Deseret Morning News
摘要: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has botched oil and gas lease sales and allowed environmental groups to disrupt the process but needs to get back to work, the Western Energy Alliance said in a lawsuit filed Aug. 11 in a U.S. District Court. 年份: 2016 收藏...
About 20 percent of the oil and about 14 percent of the natural gas produced in the United States is drilled on public lands. Kathleen Sgamma, an official of the industry group the Western Energy Alliance, said the activists trying to delay or stop lease sales were on a "fools' errand,"...
The amendments proposed on Friday would increase protections for greater sage grouse by excluding solar and wind energy development and surface-disturbing oil and gas leases in what’s known as priority habitat management areas. These added measures serve to provide requisite protections for the greater...
When asked whether the BLM could limit oil and gas leases, she emphasized that the BLM can’t do everything the public might want because it has to work within the law. “It’s important to understand that the BLM is guided by laws that mandate our multiple-use and sustained-yield missi...
Biden has said he would halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters, but he has not laid out a method or timeline for realizing that goal. A study by the state of Wyoming last month found that such a ban would cost eight Western states $8.1 billion in tax revenue and $...
Protesting BLM lease salesThe US Department of the Interior has made progress in the last 6 months in responsibly developing oil and gas on public land, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on June 24. It has offered 2.5 million acres, and companies have paid $60 billion in bonus bids and ...
One bill she has introduced is called the Coal Act, which will require the Department of the Interior to start issuing coal leases and permitting again. There is a similar bill for oil and gas permitting. She said, “We are trying to help the President with the bills we are putting forwa...
The US Interior Department and conservation groups have until April 12 to propose a schedule for filing new briefs intended to assist a federal district court judge with "fashioning an appropriate remedy" to flaws found with Interior's environmental review of an oil and gas lease sale held in ...
作者: PON Group 摘要: The US Bureau of Land Management held two oil and gas lease sales covering federal acreage in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Wyoming during the last few days of November, capturing total combined high bids of nearly $26 million across a total 22,054 acres. 年份: 2023 收...