Biden’s Dept. Interior: Agency Is ‘Moving Forward’ on Oil, Gas Leases on Public Land

[mystery-ak]

Biden’s Dept. Interior: Agency Is ‘Moving Forward’ on Oil, Gas Leases on Public Land

Penny Starr 19 Mar 2022

With prices rising at the gas pump — and a court order that allows climate change consideration when developing the agency’s policies — President Joe Biden’s Department of the Interior announced on Friday it will resume plans for issuing oil and gas leases on federal land.

Biden had halted any oil and gas development on public land in the early days of his presidency and the issue has been in and out of the courts since. The case is the Louisiana v. Biden, Case No. 22-30087 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District.

The Biden administration was fighting to include a climate change metric in its leasing decisions, while red state governors sued, claiming lease restrictions on federal land hurt American workers and states’ economies.

No announcement is posted on the Dept. of Interior’s official website as of press time, but Interior spokesperson Melissa Schwartz emailed a statement to press contacts following the court ruling issued earlier this week.

“With this ruling, the department continues its planning for responsible oil and gas development on America’s public lands and waters,” Schwartz said in the statement.

“We have heard directly from [the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)] that the district court ruling caused them to stop progress because they would have had to change the analysis, but now that’s not the case, they can move forward,” Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, said in an email.

The BLM is the entity at Interior that manages federal lands and resources.

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[Fishrrman]

"Biden’s Dept. Interior: Agency Is ‘Moving Forward’ on Oil, Gas Leases on Public Land"

"Moving forward".
At .00001 mile-per-hour...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

They will be slow-walking this, then blame the companies for not acting = Windfall Profits

[sneakypete]

"Biden’s Dept. Interior: Agency Is ‘Moving Forward’ on Oil, Gas Leases on Public Land"

"Moving forward".
At .00001 mile-per-hour...

@Fishrrman

Well,you don't really expect them to start issuing permits until the bribe bidding war for those permits has ended,and all the deposits cleared,do you?

After all,to get the maximum bribes,they had to shut down production in order to get the price per barrel up to the point where their greed was satisfied.

[Smokin Joe]

“With this ruling, the department continues its planning for responsible oil and gas development on America’s public lands and waters,”

Y'all missed the key word. RESPONSIBLE

Which means whatever they want it to mean, right down to requiring every blade of grass and stick of sagebrush be restored to the exact spot it occupied before oil drilling--they set the rules, and they can ramp the nonsense up from cost-prohibitive to insane at any time.

The BLM (Bureau of Land Management) even specifies the colors for the production equipment so it blends into the landscape.

Side note: Notice the Marxist founded organization BLM arose about the time that Cliven Bundy was having his little problem with the Bureau of Land Management, immediately muddling search engine responses querying "BLM"

Still does.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Y'all missed the key word. RESPONSIBLE

Which means whatever they want it to mean, right down to requiring every blade of grass and stick of sagebrush be restored to the exact spot it occupied before oil drilling--they set the rules, and they can ramp the nonsense up from cost-prohibitive to insane at any time.

The BLM (Bureau of Land Management) even specifies the colors for the production equipment so it blends into the landscape.

Side note: Notice the Marxist founded organization BLM arose about the time that Cliven Bundy was having his little problem with the Bureau of Land Management, immediately muddling search engine responses querying "BLM"

Still does.

You are correcto.

I visited a rig in California near the bay area and found out our oil company had to pay for a fulltime envrionmentalal assessment specialist on site.

Among other things, a small pool of water in the grass about 8' around roped off with a sign "Sensitive Environmental Area"

Meanwhile. California cares less for the senseless slaughter of almost extinct Condors butchered by windmill blades and solar panels, as well as any other bird, insect or creature that ventures close to them

[christian]

The environmental movement's sole purpose was to deny America its own resources through bureaucratic psychobabble obstruction of Capitalism.  The Communists have manipulated feelings of useful easy manipulated feelings fools, and therein a great advantage was handed over to Communists by denying America her resources.  These same Communists are silent when Communists nations build dams and other projects that they openly fight and deny to America.  As seen so repetitively, they, the Soros elitist, act like they own our Nation, not just our politicians.  Still wonder why they don't and won't represent you and your concerns?   Their votes are already bought and paid for.