On Thursday, the House Committee on Natural Resources approved an amendment to House Bill W000821, which mandates the immediate resumption of quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales on federal lands, aiming to revitalize domestic energy production.
The amendment, introduced by Congressman Bruce Westerman of Arkansas, requires the Secretary of the Interior to promptly resume quarterly lease sales in compliance with the Mineral Leasing Act.
It stipulates that lease sales must be conducted immediately upon completion of all legal requirements and says that each fiscal year, the secretary of Interior must conduct a minimum of four oil and gas lease sales in states with available federal lands, including Alaska, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Nevada.
In these sales, at least 50% of all nominated parcels that are available and eligible must be offered. If a scheduled lease sale is canceled, delayed, or results in a high percentage of unbid parcels, a replacement sale is mandated within the same fiscal year.
The amendment represents another reversal of Biden-era lockdowns in oil and gas producing states that have the vast majority of federally controlled lands.
The bill, with the approved amendment, is scheduled for further discussion in the House Committee on Natural Resources on May 6. If it advances, it will proceed to the full House for debate and a vote.
This is what winning looks like.
Now, act on construction permits for access, so they can actually USE the leases, rather than trying to sell landlocked leasesthat can’t be developed
The wheels of progress are turning and hopefully we’re climbing out of the darkness of the Biden years.
Is Earth Justice preparing a legal action against the US House for violation of laws because they did not do the bidding of 3 ‘native’ communities with a combined population of 0 before proceeding with the Committee’s work in this matter? Are BSNC and Kawerak going to use confiscated taxpayer funds laundered through USAID to connive with activists pretending to be government Agency “experts” and directors to claim cultural, environmental and sustenance impacts in order to steal the pipeline systems and the proceeds of the enterprises?
why don’t we just keep buying it from foreign countries? We don’t need the jobs or the income.
When will the US House committee advance the mandate for the immediate resumption of OFFshore oil and gas leases?
What is the plan to rid the nation of insane permitting and other costs that make no sense? Will our leadership declare a National Security Crisis to remove all barriers to oil and gas exploration, production and transportation?