Biden administration bans drilling in nearly half of Alaska petroleum reserve in sweeping win for climate advocates
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CNN ^
| April 19, 2024 | By Ella Nilsen
CNN — In a sweeping win for climate and environmental advocates, the Biden administration on Friday finalized a rule to ban fossil fuel drilling on nearly half of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, alongside other major conservation actions. The
Interior Department will block oil drilling on over 13 million acres in the Western Arctic, including about 40% of the land of the NPR-A – a remote area that is home to protected animal species including polar bears and caribou. The reserve is more than 23 million acres of public land and an underground emergency oil supply for the US...
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Biden administration bars drilling in Colorado’s Thompson Divide landscape
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The Hill ^
| 04/03/2024 | RACHEL FRAZIN
The Biden administration on Wednesday barred drilling and mining in a Colorado landscape known as the Thompson Divide, an area of mountaintops, foothills and valleys in the center of the state. The
administration said it would bar drilling and mining in 221,898 acres of the divide’s lands for 20 years as part of an effort to preserve it for the future. “The Thompson Divide area is a treasured landscape, valued for its wildlife habitat, clean air and water, and abundant recreation, ecological and scenic values,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a written statement. “The Biden-Harris administration is committed to...
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Oil Companies Relinquish Last Pacific Coast Drilling Permits to Canada
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Breitbart.com ^
| February 22, 2024 | John Hayward
Canadian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Wednesday that with the voluntary return of 23 permits by Chevron Canada in February, energy companies have surrendered the last of the outstanding permits for oil and gas drilling off Canada’s Pacific coast. “With
these final permits, Natural Resources Canada has officially secured the surrender of all 227 permits in the Pacific offshore,” Wilkinson said, describing the achievement as a milestone in “protecting the ecologically rich waters of Canada’s west coast.” Canada’s provincial and federal governments imposed a moratorium on issuing any new oil and gas exploration permits off its western...
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PA regulators grant approval for natural gas company to resume drilling after water pollution ban
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AP via Fox News ^
| 12/20/23 | Ass Press
A year after pleading no contest to criminal charges, one of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural community where it was banned for a dozen years for polluting the water supply. Coterra
Energy Inc. has won permission from state environmental regulators to drill 11 gas wells underneath Dimock Township, in the state’s northeastern corner - the sweet spot of the largest natural gas field in the United States, according to well permit records reviewed by The Associated Press. Billions of dollars worth of natural gas, now locked in shale rock deep underground,...
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Biden admin finalizes most restrictive offshore oil drilling plan in US history
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Fox News ^
| December 15, 2023 | Thomas Catenacci
'The White House simply ignores energy realities by once again limiting US energy production opportunities,' .. The Biden administration on Friday finalized a plan to dramatically curb the number of offshore oil and gas lease sales over the next five years as it continues to aggressively push green energy development. The
Department of the Interior's (DOI) five-year offshore oil and gas leasing program schedules just three Gulf of Mexico lease sales through 2029, marking the fewest number of sales ever included in such a plan, which the agency is mandated to issue periodically. According to the DOI, holding the sales...
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Oil companies concerned small businesses being harmed by Biden's new drilling regulations...“It really hurts small businesses because they’re asking for 9.2 million in bonds," CEO of Arena Energy, LLC Mike Minarovic said.
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Just The News ^
| October 1, 2023 11:06pm Updated: October 1, 2023 11:06pm | By Charlotte Hazard
Oil companies are expressing concerns over President Joe Biden's proposed restrictions on oil and gas leases -- particularly about how these regulations will impact smaller oil lease operators and ultimately consumers. CEO
of Arena Energy, LLC Mike Minarovic testified before the Small Business Committee’s Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy & Supply Chains on Thursday where he spoke on behalf of the Gulf Energy Alliance. "There are many examples I could cite today to illustrate the burdensome and unnecessary regulations crushing small businesses operating in the GOM," Minarovic said in his written testimony. "And every single one of those examples must...
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Federal Judge Smacks Down Biden's Attempt to Restrict Oil, Gas Drilling in Gulf of Mexico
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Federalist, ^
| September 22, 2023 | Steve Straub
In a significant ruling late Thursday, Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana sided with American energy advocates, striking down the Biden administration’s eleventh-hour restrictions on a pending offshore oil and gas lease sale. The
injunction, favoring the plaintiffs – the State of Louisiana, the American Petroleum Institute (API), and energy giants Chevron and Shell – puts a halt on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) restrictive measures concerning Lease Sale 261. This crucial sale, encompassing vast expanses in the Gulf of Mexico, was scheduled for the following week. The ruling by Judge Cain reiterates the federal...
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Biden admin proposes 50-year drilling, mining ban for thousands of acres of land in New Mexico
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Just the News ^
| 9/18/23 | Ben Whedon
The Department of the Interior on Monday announced a proposal to bar oil and gas development in large swathes of New Mexico in a bid to protect sensitive lands that some Indian tribes consider sacred. The
ban would affect more than 4,000 acres within Sandoval County, and aims to "safeguard sacred Tribal lands, boost important local recreation opportunities, and support wildlife habitat connectivity," the agency stated. Prohibitions would last for 50 years but not impact existing development rights. "Today we’re responding to calls from Tribes, elected leaders, and community members who want to see these public lands protected. We look...
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Navajo Leaders Challenge Chaco Canyon Drilling Ban. Climate Advocates Should Listen.
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Real Clear Investigations ^
| August 28, 2023 | Ethan Brown
On June 2, the U.S. Department of the Interior blocked oil and gas leasing for the next twenty years within a ten-mile radius of Chaco Canyon — the site of a Puebloan civilization in now-northern New Mexico dating back over a millennium. Despite
some support from people within the Pueblo tribes and Navajo Nation which surround the land, the vast majority of Navajo leaders have opposed these drilling restrictions. It’s essential that climate advocates hear them out. Between high-profile cases of extractive industries seizing and polluting Indigenous land and the fact that climate change exacerbates the many environmental and economic...
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Biden: I Wanted ‘to Stop All Drilling’ on the Coasts and Gulf, Got Blocked by Courts
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Breitbart ^
| 08/08/2023 | Ian hatchett
During an interview with The Weather Channel that is set to air on Wednesday, a portion of which aired on Tuesday, President Joe Biden said that he “wanted to stop all drilling on the East Coast and the West Coast and in the Gulf” but was blocked by the courts from doing
so. Weather Channel Meteorologist Stephanie Abrams asked, “Let’s talk Gen Z, because they’re going to play a big role in the next presidential election, and many of them are angry about the 7,000 oil and gas permits you approved since you’ve been in office. You promised no new...
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Drilling in the ANWR and President Bush
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Trump has talked about getting this done. It
was debated a lot in the first year of the GWB Administration, and I believe John McCain cast the vote defeating it by voting with the Democrats. Why didn't President Bush try to get this passed again once the Republicans had control of the Senate after the 2002 Midterms? Was this Bush not fighting the Democrats?
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Native American activists for and against drilling outside Chaco Canyon clash, derailing official visit (New Mexico)
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The Albuquerque Journal ^
| June 12, 2023 | Ryan Boete, Susan Montoya Bryan
Native American activists verbally clashed outside Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Sunday, derailing a visit by U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who was there to celebrate a 20-year buffer around a World Heritage Site in northwest New Mexico. Haaland’s trip to Chaco on Sunday was canceled when a group of Navajo
land allotment owners blocked the road, upset with the Biden administration’s recent decision to enshrine for the next 20 years what previously had been an informal 10-mile buffer around the World Heritage site. The buffer protects the area from future federal mineral development, including oil and gas drilling....
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Biden Admin Closes Off More US Lands To Oil And Gas Drilling
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Daily Caller ^
| 6/2/23 | John Hugh Demastri
The Biden administration on Friday ordered a 20-year ban on new oil and gas drilling leases within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, according to multiple reports. The
moratorium — which the Department of Interior initially began considering in November 2021 — is a long-sought goal of several local politicians, conservation groups and Native American tribes that want to preserve the centuries-old Pueblo ruins located there, although some tribes have opposed the ban for limiting future economic opportunities, according to E&E News. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, herself New Mexican and the nation’s first Native...
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I can think of two possible reasons why New York Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman said, “We need to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely”
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Wordpress ^
| May 30, 2023 | Dan from Squirrel
New York Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman recently said, “We need to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely.”I can think of two possible reasons why he said this.One is that he doesn’t know that the fertilizer that we use to grow our food is made from fossil fuels.The other is that he does
know it, but he believes that his voters don’t know it.Either one is a pretty scary prospect.Here’s video of him saying those words on CNN:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG3k
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Alaskan Trucking Fleets Promise $150K Driver Salaries Amid Drilling Boom
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Freightwaves ^
| 05/06/2023 | Rachel Premack
As more drilling and mining projects are approved in Alaska, local trucking fleets are planning to hire drivers around the United States to haul equipment, chemicals and other loads — particularly on its fearsome Dalton Highway, a remote, 414-mile road that connects Fairbanks to oil fields near the Arctic Ocean. The developments,
particularly ConocoPhillips Alaska’s Willow project, have been controversial as they may mar some of Earth’s most remote land. However, for the residents of the United States’ third-least-populated state, the new investments could bring an economic boom that many locals say the state needs. The construction of the Trans-Alaska...
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First Native American Interior Secretary At War With Tribe Over Oil And Gas Drilling
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dailycaller.com ^
| 5/4/2023 | TREVOR SCHAKOHL
The Navajo Nation Council voted Thursday to oppose plans by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the country’s first-ever Native American Cabinet member, to ban oil and gas drilling on 351,000 acres of public land around New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park and establish a buffer zone surrounding the site. The
Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management formally proposed withdrawing the 351,000 acres of public land surrounding Chaco Canyon in January 2021, with Haaland and other New Mexico congressional Democrats having co-sponsored legislation in 2019 to establish a 10-mile buffer zone around the historical park. The Navajo Nation Council passed a...
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House, Senate bills would ban Atlantic offshore drilling
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CoastalReview.org ^
| 4/28/2023 | Staff Report
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., met in their home state Monday for a roundtable discussion, where they pushed to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling in the Atlantic Ocean while emphasizing the need to fight the climate crisis and protect marine mammals and their habitats. The
New Jersey senators are among a handful of lawmakers, including Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Rep. Deborah Ross, D-N.C., behind reintroducing the Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism, or COAST, Anti-Drilling Act. The bill would permanently prohibit the Department of Interior from issuing leases for the exploration, development, or production...
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Fossil Fuel Pushback: Biden Administration Forced To Expand Gulf Drilling
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Breitbart ^
| 03/30/2023 | Jacob Bliss
The Biden administration was forced to offer up 2,600 square miles of federal oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico this week, following a deal made by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) in exchange for his support of the left’s climate legislation last summer. Major
oil companies have offered bids on more than 2,600 square miles (6,700 square kilometers) of federal oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico in a sale mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Wednesday’s auction was the first in over a year and was expected to draw interest from...
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Breaking News Commentary: Kissing Murkowski Biden Approves Alaska Oil Drilling For Lisa's Energy Industry Friends
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Nextrush Free ^
| 3/13/2023 | Nextrush/Self
Why would Joe Biden irritate his Left to allow oil drilling in Alaska? Well consider this Never Trumper US Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and de-facto Biden ally has been a long-time friend of the energy industry. Her
father Frank Murkowski ousted in 2006 as Governor of Alaska after Sarah Palin figured out how corrupt the Energy Commission Murkowski appointed her to was. Palin irritated the energy industry by wanting them to pay a fee to help pay for Alaska's state government. Murkowski Republicans had no such notions they kissed energy industry backside like business as usual politicians are supposed...
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Ed Markey Rages at Biden over ‘Disastrous Decision’ to Approve Oil Drilling Project
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Breitbart ^
| 03/13/2023 | Ashley Oliver
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) issued a scathing rebuke Monday of President Joe Biden’s administration after it approved a scaled-down version of an oil drilling project in a petroleum-rich region of northern Alaska. Markey, a climate hawk and cosponsor of the failed Green New Deal, called the administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project,
a multibillion-dollar oil drilling endeavor in the federal North Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, a “disastrous decision.”
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