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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden administration to resume drilling auctions in setback to climate agenda
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/biden-administration-takes-steps-resume-oil-gas-drilling-auctions-2021-08-31/The Biden administration announced plans on Tuesday to open millions of acres for oil and gas exploration as the White House sought to comply with a court order requiring it to resume lease auctions.
The move, which includes some 80 million acres of water in the Gulf of Mexico along with potentially hundreds of thousands more onshore, represents a setback for Democratic President Joe Biden's plans to fight climate change, which included a campaign vow to end new federal oil and gas leasing.
Biden paused drilling auctions after taking office in January pending an analysis of their impacts on the environment and value to taxpayers. That review is ongoing, officials have said. In June, however, a federal judge in Louisiana ordered a resumption of auctions, saying the government was required by law to offer acreage to the oil and gas industry.
The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday said it would offer almost all available, unleased blocks in a more than 90 million acre area in the Gulf of Mexico. The sale could ultimately result in production of up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude oil and 4.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to a sale document posted online.
The move, which includes some 80 million acres of water in the Gulf of Mexico along with potentially hundreds of thousands more onshore, represents a setback for Democratic President Joe Biden's plans to fight climate change, which included a campaign vow to end new federal oil and gas leasing.
Biden paused drilling auctions after taking office in January pending an analysis of their impacts on the environment and value to taxpayers. That review is ongoing, officials have said. In June, however, a federal judge in Louisiana ordered a resumption of auctions, saying the government was required by law to offer acreage to the oil and gas industry.
The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday said it would offer almost all available, unleased blocks in a more than 90 million acre area in the Gulf of Mexico. The sale could ultimately result in production of up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude oil and 4.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to a sale document posted online.
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Biden administration to resume drilling auctions in setback to climate agenda (Original Post)
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
OP
The human race is, by nature, incapable of handling a problem this big.
Binkie The Clown
Sep 2021
#4
joetheman
(1,450 posts)1. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)2. No appeal???????
secondwind
(16,903 posts)3. The review is still ongoing.................
These goddamn federal judges ..... "federal judge in Louisiana ordered a resumption of auctions, etc."
UGH
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)4. The human race is, by nature, incapable of handling a problem this big.
Civilization is doomed. Get used to it.
BootinUp
(46,924 posts)5. Biden should compare this to tfg's wall. Which is the real emergency?
mopinko
(69,803 posts)6. hopefully no one is foolish enough to bid on them.
they would be gambling big time that they ever get to drill.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)7. Afternoon kick.