(Oil & Gas 360) – The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has finalized its plan to add nearly 50% more public lands to generate more solar energy. The agency’s Western Solar Plan, which first targeted 22 million acres across Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah in its original plan in 2012, has been expanded to 31 million acres
Nasdaq A Biden administration report on federal oil and gas leasing is undergoing an interagency review and should be published soon, an Interior Department official said on Tuesday. “Reports like this that come at the direction of an executive order do go through an appropriate interagency and White House review process,” Laura Daniel-Davis said during a Senate Energy and Natural
From Reuters Trump administration infighting is holding up approval of the first major U.S. offshore wind energy project, with agencies sparring over whether the proposal does enough to protect the fishing industry, according to interviews and agency documents. The delays are a setback to President Donald Trump’s efforts to fast-track big energy infrastructure projects and could threaten the administration’s plans
Interior Department Reorganizes into 12 “Unified Regions” – To What Effect on The Ground? From the National Law Review Department of the Interior (“DOI”) Secretary Ryan Zinke announced on August 29, 2018, DOI’s “final” version of its new reorganization plan, which creates 12 new “Unified Regions” primarily intended to coordinate and expedite decision making related to the land, water, resource
March 2018 BOEM sale offers 76.9 million acres for lease – oil & gas development in the Gulf of Mexico U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has announced the nation’s largest ever federal lease sale—almost 77 million acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico–offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The proposed region-wide lease sale, offering an
Some views are meant to be preserved It looks like a breathtaking Western painting that might be hanging in a museum in Denver, or Cody or Jackson, but it’s actually a photograph of the real thing taken by the National Park Service: one of America’s most magnificent legacies: Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming, just south of Yellowstone National Park. It’s a
President Obama ‘turning his back on the livelihoods of Alaskans who depend on resource development’ Today, the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released 348 pages of new Requirements for Exploratory Drilling on the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf. Today’s rule addresses certain key factors associated with conducting offshore oil and gas activities on the Arctic
Representatives from 11 states want U.S. Interior Department to explain why number of new federal leases issued has fallen by 57% in the past 8 years On Dec. 16, 15 U.S. congressmen delivered a letter to Janice Schneider, Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Interior, expressing serious concerns with the Bureau of Land Management’s repeated postponement of lease sales. In particular, the members
Arctic Offshore Leases Cancelled Through 2017; Shell, Statoil Fail to Extend Leases The Chukchi Sea’s 29 billion barrels (U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s estimate of BOE) will have to wait for better times. The U.S. Department of Interior announced last Friday that it will put a halt to future auctions for the current leasing program, which runs through 2017. In
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit against the United States Interior Department on February 19, 2015, alleging the violation of three federal laws for oil and gas development offshore California. The results from the lawsuit could potentially affect the oversight of all offshore activity, including those in the Gulf of Mexico. The Center cited several reasons behind its
Department of Interior looking to triple federal offshore acreage for wind development In a press release on Monday, the Department of Interior announced that more than 742,000 acres offshore Massachusetts will be offered for commercial wind energy development in a January 29, 2015, competitive lease sale. According to an analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy
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