Posted on 01/01/2025 2:45:44 PM PST by Libloather
The Biden administration is attempting to implement last-minute restrictions on oil and gas drilling in the west just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
On Monday, the Department of the Interior announced plans to pursue a 20-year ban on oil and gas leases in 264,000 acres of Nevada's Ruby Mountains.
The administration submitted an application to withdraw the acreage from any potential leasing, which initiated a two-year ban on new mineral leases in the area during the approval process. The proposal now heads into a 90-day public comment period, which will fall under the Trump administration.
"The Ruby Mountains are an iconic landscape with exceptional recreation opportunities and valuable fish and wildlife habitat worth preserving for the future," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement. "Today’s action honors the voices of Tribal communities and conservation and sportsmen’s groups and marks another important step to protect a treasured landscape."
The Biden administration's lease limitation does not put restrictions on mining in the region.
During Trump's first administration, the Forest Service conducted a study to determine whether 54,000 acres could be leased for oil and gas drilling in the Ruby Mountains.
The proposal was eventually rejected in 2019 after the public comment period saw "thousands of comments from the local area, the state of Nevada, and from across the nation" opposing the idea, according to William Dunkelberger, the forest supervisor who signed the decision.
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Ban all you want, ya fraud. Your day is coming, and that of your cabal.
Burn it down.
Maybe it's true now, I don't know.
Natural gas wells have a tiny footprint.
This has nothing to do with conservation.
Personally I'd like to hear that whatever it was that Michelle Obama had buried in the Rose Garden, during the last few days of her time in the White House, was being dug up and carted off.
DOA
On the afternoon or Jan 20, begin identifying all names behind this and place them on the governmental cost reduction list.
He cannot use an executive order that stops a Trump executive order. But thanks for playing.
One alleged VP talked about being
unburdened by what has been the Biden and passed, or something like that.
Clown thinks he’s Xerxes king of Persia or something. Anything he decrees can be undone in our government.
There is too long of a time period between an election results and the oath of office. In most jobs, when you get fired they escort you out of the building. They don’t leave you hanging around to screw everything up.
Jan 20th — day of the unban
Overrule, cancel., and expunge anything that asshole does at this point . 100%
In the immortal words of Michael "Gentle Giant" Brown's stepfather: Burn this bitch down!
Make it Dec 1st
Biden is not in control. If it can be determined others are making these executive orders, are they valid?
No more Russian gas to Europe.
Of course Biden does this to stop us from selling our gas and keep prices high.
Futile.
Executive Orders......it’s what’s for dinner.
Clinton shut down access to huge coal fields in Utah, Obama caused coal plants from Page AZ to Farmington NM and across the USA to be shut down and destroyed. He also tried to destroy our local plant but failed.
Now Biden is adding to the damage of those two by going after natural gas.
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