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Trump administration to bring back offshore drilling staff during shutdown
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/425501-trump-administration-to-bring-back-offshore-drilling-staff-during. . .
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Offshore Energy Management (BOEM) updated its plan for the ongoing partial federal government shutdown last week to state that 40 workers would be brought in for offshore drilling, in addition to the 84 others who have already been working during the shutdown.
The employees are working in four areas: geological testing for offshore oil and natural gas in the Atlantic Ocean; the administration’s proposal last year to allow offshore drilling in the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans; environment review for that proposal and preparations for two upcoming offshore drilling lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.
Other BOEM responsibilities, like opening offshore areas for wind energy development, remain closed.
Each of the areas is being financed through “carryover funds,” BOEM said.
Most federal employees who are being asked to work during the shutdown are there for a variety of very limited reasons, including “protection for life and property,” since federal law severely restricts who can work.
But BOEM made clear that the workers newly exempted from the shutdown are there to carry out President Trump’s agenda.
“In order to comply with the Administration’s America First energy strategy to develop a new OCS Oil and Gas leasing program, work must continue toward issuing the Proposed Program per the Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Act requirements,” BOEM said of bringing back workers for the plan to expand drilling.
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Offshore Energy Management (BOEM) updated its plan for the ongoing partial federal government shutdown last week to state that 40 workers would be brought in for offshore drilling, in addition to the 84 others who have already been working during the shutdown.
The employees are working in four areas: geological testing for offshore oil and natural gas in the Atlantic Ocean; the administration’s proposal last year to allow offshore drilling in the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans; environment review for that proposal and preparations for two upcoming offshore drilling lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.
Other BOEM responsibilities, like opening offshore areas for wind energy development, remain closed.
Each of the areas is being financed through “carryover funds,” BOEM said.
Most federal employees who are being asked to work during the shutdown are there for a variety of very limited reasons, including “protection for life and property,” since federal law severely restricts who can work.
But BOEM made clear that the workers newly exempted from the shutdown are there to carry out President Trump’s agenda.
“In order to comply with the Administration’s America First energy strategy to develop a new OCS Oil and Gas leasing program, work must continue toward issuing the Proposed Program per the Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Act requirements,” BOEM said of bringing back workers for the plan to expand drilling.
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