Biden administration moves toward approval for major Alaska oil drilling project: Takes step toward approving the $8 billion Willow plan that climate groups have long condemned.
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CNBC ^
| 03/13/2023 | Emma Newburger
Key PointsThe Biden administration on Wednesday recommended a scaled-down version of a major oil drilling project in the North Slope of Alaska, taking a step toward approving the $8 billion Willow plan that climate groups have long condemned.The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management released an environmental analysis that proposes lowering the
number of drilling sites from five to three under the project, which is led by ConocoPhillips, Alaska's largest crude oil producer.The federal government has 30 days to issue a final decision on whether to approve the project. President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday recommended a scaled-down version of...
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Joe Biden's "9,000 unused drilling permits" lie: Even his own administration is acknowledging that’s wrong.
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Hotair ^
| 03/01/2023 | Jazz Shaw
This is a story that most of you are familiar with by now. Ever
since taking office, Joe Biden has received complaints about the high price of gasoline and other fuels as well as the slow collapse of America’s energy grid. Critics point to Biden’s own policies, specifically the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline and his failure to issue any more drilling permits beyond the bare minimum mandated by law. (And he’s missed some of those targets as well.) In response, Biden points the finger of blame at the oil and gas industry, claiming that the oil companies are...
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Biden appears to go off script to say US needs oil, gas drilling...'We are still going to need oil and gas for a while,' Biden remarked at State of the Union address
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FOX News ^
| February 8, 2023 | By Thomas Catenacci
President Biden appeared to go off script during his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, saying that the U.S. would need oil and natural gas for many years to come. "We
are still going to need oil and gas for a while," Biden said during his speech. Biden's comments were quickly met with a mixed reaction as some Republicans appeared to cheer the remarks. The president then told an anecdote in which an oil executive asked him why his company should invest in fossil fuel projects in light of the negative business atmosphere for oil and gas projects. Biden...
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Biden administration recommends oil drilling in Alaska
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Associated Press ^
| February 1, 2023 | Becky Bohrer
The Biden administration issued a long-awaited study Wednesday that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska’s North Slope, and the move — while not final — drew immediate anger from environmentalists who saw it as a betrayal of the president’s pledges to reduce carbon emissions and promote clean energy sources. ConocoPhillips
Alaska had proposed five drilling sites, and the alternative proposed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management calls for up to three drill sites initially. Even as the land agency released its report, the U.S. Interior Department said in its own press release that it has “substantial concerns”...
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Los Angeles City Council approves ban on oil and gas drilling within city limit
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The Hill ^
| 12/05/2022 | Brad Dress
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday unanimously approved a ban on oil and gas drilling within the city limits, finalizing steps toward a ban that were first made at the beginning of the year. Council
members approved 12-0 a resolution enacting an immediate ban on all new oil and drilling. The city will also decommission existing oil wells and operations within 20 years, according to a fact sheet. Before the vote, City Council President Paul Krekorian called the city’s forthcoming ban a “watershed moment” for climate action. “Part of [the city’s] economic growth was because of the oil and...
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U.S. to Auction Almost 1 Million Acres Off Alaskan Coast for Oil Drilling
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breitbart.com ^
| 11/28/2022 | Jacob Bliss
(No search results) The United States will auction nearly one million acres off the Alaskan coast for new oil and gas drilling in December, mandated in the so-called “Inflation” Reduction Act (IRA). The United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), inside the Department of Interior, will put hundreds of thousands of
acres off Alaska’s southcentral coast up for auction on December 30 for new oil and gas drilling projects. The lease sale has to be completed by the end of the year to comply with the IRA, which was added to the piece of legislation to win support from...
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US rule would limit methane leaks from public lands drilling
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AP via Breitbart ^
| 11/28/2022 | AP
The Interior Department on Monday proposed rules to limit methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on public lands, the latest action by the Biden administration to crack down on emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming. The
proposal by Interior’s Bureau of Land Management would tighten limits on gas flaring on federal land and require energy companies to better detect methane leaks that add to planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution.
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L.A. City Council Votes Unanimously to Prepare Ordinance to Ban Oil Drilling
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Breitbart ^
| 11/22/2022 | JOEL B. POLLAK
The city council of Los Angeles, once a hub of the American oil industry, voted 10-0 on Tuesday to instruct the city attorney to prepare an ordinance that would ban oil drilling within a city that is still dotted with pumpjacks. The
Los Angeles Daily News reported: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a similar ordinance earlier in October. The City Council in January unanimously approved a series of recommendations aimed at banning new oil and gas wells. The draft ordinance would phase out all such oil and gas extraction activities by immediately banning new oil and gas...
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Northeast Faces Winter Energy Crisis as Biden Promises ‘No More Drilling’
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The Washington Free Beacon ^
| November 7, 2022 | Philip Caldwell •
Joe Biden and other Democrats promise to curtail U.S. domestic oil production, the northeastern United States could face a historic energy crisis as temperatures fall this winter, burdening an energy economy already beset by record-high prices and oil shortages. Signs
of vulnerability in the Northeast have been apparent in recent months, Bloomberg reported, with retailers already rationing oil as stockpiles of diesel and heating oil are at a third of their normal levels. Those unfavorable conditions could bring about challenges to the Northeast's energy infrastructure that would be unprecedented in most Americans' lifetimes, according to Bloomberg: Add some cold to...
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Biden Promises ‘No More Drilling’ Just Days After Demanding More Drilling
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Forbes ^
| Nov 7, 2022,06:48am EST | David Blackmon - Senior Contributor
Just a day after not exactly apologizing to West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin for promising a San Diego audience to replace coal fired power plants with wind farms, President Joe Biden turned to promising a New York audience to shut down drilling for oil instead. Stumping
for embattled New York Gov. Kathy Hochul at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers Sunday, the President responded to a shouted question from an audience member about his longstanding promises to shut down fracking and new drilling on federal lands and waters by saying “no more drilling...there is no more drilling...I haven’t formed any new...
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Ahead Of Midterm Elections, Biden Snaps At Rally: ‘No More Drilling! There Is No More Drilling!’
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Daily Wire ^
| NOVEMBER 7, 2022 | Staff
President Joe Biden (D) snapped at a young woman who attended a political rally that he hosted on Sunday at Sarah Lawrence College in New York for gubernatorial candidate Kathy Hochul. “No more drilling. There
is no more drilling,” Biden snapped at a young woman in the crowd. “I haven’t formed any new drilling.” “There are at least five more years of offshore drilling,” the woman shouted back. “— in the Atlantic or the Pacific but in the Antarctic and off the gulf of New Mexico.” “That was before I was president,” Biden responded. “We’re trying to work on that...
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Biden says there will be 'no more drilling' as he almost falls off stage at NY rally for Gov Hochul - just a day after he was blasted by key Democrat Manchin for 'ignoring severe economic pain' with vow to close coal plants
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Daily Mail ^
| 6 November 2022 | KATELYN CARALLE
Joe Biden said during an event in New York Sunday there would be 'no more drilling' in the U.S. one day after Joe Manchin blasted him for vowing to close coal plants - while the president nearly took a spill on stage. The
president could be heard at one point telling someone in the crowd 'No more drilling. There is no more drilling. I haven't formed any new drilling. No.'
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Joe Biden Declares He's For "No More Drilling" Just Days Before Midterm Elections
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GOP War Room ^
| 11/6/22 | Joe Biden
During A 11/6/22 Speech, Joe Biden Declares He's For "No More Drilling" Just Days Before Midterm Elections
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Joe Biden Complains Oil Companies ‘Should Be Drilling More’ After Vowing to End Fossil Fuels
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Breitbart ^
| 11/03/2022 | Charlie Spiering
President Joe Biden complained that oil companies were not drilling enough for oil, despite his long history of trying to block oil and gas production in the United States. “We haven’t slowed them down at all, they should be drilling more than they’re doing now,” Biden said. “If
they were drilling more we’d have more relief at the pump.”
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Biden to create Camp Hale monument today, Thompson Divide measure also being announced (Ban drilling & mining)
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel ^
| October 12, 2022 | Dennis Webb
President Biden today is scheduled to designate the new Camp Hale ━ Continental Divide National Monument during a visit to Colorado in which the Biden administration also plans to announce a proposal to withdraw more than 200,000 acres in the Thompson Divide area southwest of Glenwood Springs from new oil and gas
leasing and mining claims.
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Report: Biden Leases Fewer Acres for Oil and Gas Drilling Than Any President Since 1940s
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One America News ^
| September 15, 2022 | Daniel Baldwin
A new report from the Department of the Interior shows the Biden Administration has leased fewer acres of land for oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters since former President Harry Truman in the 1940s. The
Department of the Interior has given out leases for 126,228 acres through August 20, 2022, according to analysis from the Wall Street Journal. The last president to lease out less than 4.4 million acres at this point in the first term of his presidency was Richard Nixon in 1969-1970. “Joe Biden has been, I won’t say a closet radical, but simply a...
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Biden proposes strengthening offshore drilling safety regulations loosened by Trump
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WCNT ^
| 9/12/2022 | Rachel Frazin
The Biden administration on Monday proposed to strengthen certain safety regulations for offshore oil and gas drilling that were loosened under the Trump administration. After
the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill that killed 11 workers and released 134 million gallons of fuel into the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration implemented new safety regulations. In 2019, the Trump administration revised these standards, making them more industry-friendly. On Monday, the Interior Department indicated that it would further tweak the rules, although the new proposal does not appear to be identical to what was put forth during the Obama years. “The Biden-Harris...
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Manchin deal with Schumer to spur oil and gas drilling jeopardized by far-left Democrats
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Fox News ^
| 8/19/2022 | Haris Alic
Sen. Joe Manchin's deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for an oil and gas permitting bill in exchange for the West Virginia senator's support for the White House's $739 billion climate change spending and tax hike, signed into law last week by President Biden, is in jeopardy, as progressives say they
are not bound by any agreement and vow to oppose the legislation.
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Federal Court Allows Biden To Pause Oil And Gas Drilling
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The Free Press ^
| 08/17/2022 | Mike Jenkins
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday threw out a lower court's order that would have stopped the Biden admin moratorium on new oil and gas leasing...
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Environmentalists challenge North Sea gas drilling plans in Dutch court. ( Marxist watermelons )
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Reuters ^
| July 15, 2022
Environmentalist groups in Germany and the Netherlands are challenging plans for a new gas field in the North Sea, a German non-profit organisation said on Friday, possibly complicating Europe's hunt for alternatives to Russian fuel. Environmental
Action Germany (DUH) said it had filed the lawsuit with the Court of Justice in The Hague together with Dutch organisation Mobilisation for the Environment (MOB) and a citizens' initiative from the coastal region of East Frisia. Privately-owned Dutch company ONE-Dyas has been given the go-ahead by Dutch authorities to develop its N05-A gas field in the North Sea, straddling German and Dutch waters,...
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