US to resume drilling on federally controlled sites

 Washington Examiner:

The Biden administration is taking steps beginning this week toward restarting oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters as it complies with a ruling by a federal judge that found its pause on new auctions to be illegal.

In a filing on Tuesday to a Louisiana federal district court, the Interior Department said it will take procedural steps by the end of this month to prepare for a sale of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. The sale could occur in late September or October. For onshore leases, Interior will post a list of available parcels for auction by the end of August, followed by a 30-day public comment period, likely leading to sales in early 2022.

Interior is acting after Louisiana and other Gulf states filed a motion to a federal district judge earlier this month to compel compliance with his ruling in June blocking Biden’s indefinite leasing pause.

Last week, the Biden administration announced it would appeal the decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, but it also committed to restart leasing during the appeals process.

Interior, however, has signaled it will take a restrictive approach to fossil fuel leasing going forward and that it will demand big changes in the future.

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This comes after OPEC told the Biden administration to pound sand when it asked that group to increase drilling.  The new restrictions may make it difficult to find people willing to lease the sites if they are too onerous.   The Biden administration should also resume leasing on federally controlled sites in the states as well as the Gulf.  The story does not indicate that new drilling will be available in the states.

Biden and most of his Democrat supporters are true believers in the "climate change" theory even though most of the predictions of gloom and doom have not been realized.  The poles are still not ice-free and New York City is still not underwater.  Their serial 10-year timelines to the end times have not been met.

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