Posted on 08/15/2022 6:35:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
(Reuters) - The Bureau of Land Management will pause oil and gas leasing on 2.2 million acres of Colorado public land after environmental groups alleged its current management plan failed to consider climate impacts, according to a settlement.
The agreement was filed Thursday in Colorado federal court and requires the government to conduct a new environmental analysis of the climate impacts of oil and gas leasing on public lands in southwestern Colorado. The government also agreed to consider how the leases may impact the endangered Gunnison sage- grouse and its habitat.
The Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity and others said in an August 2020 lawsuit that BLM had violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires the government to take a hard look at the environmental impacts of its leasing decisions, when it approved the current 20-year plan.
The groups said the decision to allow leasing on these public lands would aggravate the climate crisis and that it would be “impossible” to address that impact without “completely transforming the way public lands are managed for fossil fuel exploitation.”
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That should drive the pump price of gasoline down!
Climate change is so important we beg the Middle East to increase production...it’s fine for them but not for us?
This makes President Obama very happy.
The idea is to drive up the price of energy. This way it will force people to drive less. Turn down the AC this summer. Turn down the heat this winter. It will force people to sell the F150 and buy a more fuel efficient vehicle or an electric vehicle.
If this is the way to handle things, Republicans should plan to require similar restrictions on "green" tech which heavily relies on fossil fuels AND child labor mining ConflictCobalt™ and BloodLithium™
We’ll be in the same boat as Europe before this is over.
“U.S. to pause oil, gas leasing on 2.2 million acres in Colorado over climate impact”
Take that, Russia!!!!
Oh but Biden keeps saying they have so much land already to work with and then they take away millions of acres.
Now there should be no diesel or gasoline shipped into Colorado.
The agreement
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That’s all you need to know.
The blm “ agreed” to it.
This is the decades old
EcoNazi/infiltrated Marxist BLM
Tango.
Every “ survey, study” needs to have their numbers checked, cuz that’s where the sausage is hid.
It’s time to abolish EVERY alphabet soup agency! They are all corrupt!
If the Sierra Club cared so much about the climate impacts of oil and coal why are they not doing business in China and India.
Oh wait it’s not America
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Bingo.
BLM and usfs usfw are ALL heavily infiltrated by Marxists.
Project veritas needs to expose them cuz this is the hammer used to destroy our energy production.
They perfected this death tango first with the fishing industry, then Timber industry then energy industry and even ag and ranching industry.
Check
Yep.
I drive thorough a Leftist town on my way to work, and they have all these programmable road signs purchased with the American Infrastructure Investment Act of 2010 (which should have been used to fix bridges, buy new emergency equipment or whatever, but was used to pay health insurance costs for teacher’s unions and buy Dodge Challengers for police departments)
These signs say things like “Peak energy use today-avoid using air conditioning” or things like that.
I want to flip it a double bird every single day.
The US is destroying its energy independence while Russia, China and other countries are strengthening theirs. This will not turn out good.
“The US is destroying its energy independence while Russia, China and other countries are strengthening theirs. This will not turn out good”.
Yes, and that is only a part of what they’re doing to knock down the USA. Every day 24/7 there are constant attacks from every direction aimed at ruining us.
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