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U.S. to pause oil, gas leasing on 2.2 million acres in Colorado over climate impact
Reuters ^ | August 15, 2022 | By Clark Mindock

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: agw; brandon; climatechange; climatechangefraud; colorado; creepstate; deepstate; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; energy; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; leases; leasing; oil; policestate; propaganda; sierraclub; singlepartystate; socialism
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1 posted on 08/15/2022 6:35:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The EPA is more corrupt than the FBI. Enjoy higher energy prices America.


2 posted on 08/15/2022 6:37:49 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That will surely halt inflation in its tracks!............................../😜


3 posted on 08/15/2022 6:38:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thank goodness eh? “They” will never understand that muvver erf don’t care about us. AT ALL! And what season is fast approaching? 🤔😵‍💫🤬🐂💩

The day the climate stops changing will be a REALLY bad day.


4 posted on 08/15/2022 6:39:14 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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P.S. They could still honor the leases but granting permits to work the leases-—————Pfffttttt! Good luck with all the EIS they’d have to endure. That way branDUHn and pals could still claim they’ve leased the land and the oil companies just aren’t using them.


5 posted on 08/15/2022 6:41:27 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: bray
Putin's fault!TM
6 posted on 08/15/2022 6:41:47 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We say that we are fighting Putin and Russia. But all of our actions on energy and weapons procurement seem to be helping Putin and Russia.


7 posted on 08/15/2022 6:42:29 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Remember when Obama said the discussion about global warming is over , so now they go ahead with their insanity all over the world


8 posted on 08/15/2022 6:43:31 AM PDT by butlerweave
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so now they go ahead with their insanity all over the world

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Good point. Their jihad against fossil fuels will not just hurt the U.S., it will also drive up the cost of energy in nations around the world. Many countries will be severely damaged by their policies.


9 posted on 08/15/2022 6:47:30 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change policy is about saving the planet the same way CoupFlu policy is about protecting public health.


10 posted on 08/15/2022 6:47:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: bray

Evil Bastards


11 posted on 08/15/2022 6:49:32 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Communists smile!


12 posted on 08/15/2022 6:50:01 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: rktman

So they can claim the oil companies have leases that they refuse to drill on. I yell at the TV every time I hear that rubbish.


13 posted on 08/15/2022 6:50:19 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SMH...the absurdity of believing you can understand the GLOBAL climate impact of an oil lease.

And people wonder why gas is so expensive.


14 posted on 08/15/2022 6:52:06 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oil and gas activity does not impact grouse. Wind energy does. They fear tall structures because of raptors, so wind energy towers shrink their habitat.


15 posted on 08/15/2022 6:55:49 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Thunder90

“We say that we are fighting Putin and Russia. But all of our actions on energy and weapons procurement seem to be helping Putin and Russia”.

That’s right.


16 posted on 08/15/2022 6:56:13 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: fuzzylogic

If we get into a situation where energy isn’t just expensive, but is unavailable, we are going to be in a world of hurt.


17 posted on 08/15/2022 6:56:21 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


18 posted on 08/15/2022 6:56:27 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Rusty0604

Me too.


19 posted on 08/15/2022 6:59:37 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is just one more round in the lucrative “sue and settle” game played by the leftists in EPA and green ngo’s. A rigged game at that: the greenies sue and the government is only too happy to “lose” and thereby impede American well-being one more notch. The greenies collect another bonus check..


20 posted on 08/15/2022 7:00:07 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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