The Biden administration on Friday proposed up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska’s Cook Inlet over the next five years.
The Biden administration on Friday proposed up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska’s Cook Inlet over the next five years- going against the Democrat’s climate promises but scaling back a Trump-era plan that called for dozens of offshore drilling opportunities including in undeveloped areas.
The Interior Department had suspended lease sales in late January because of climate concerns but was forced to resume them by a U.S. district judge in Louisiana.when it canceled the last scheduled lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Cook Inlet during the previous offshore leasing cycle Friday’s proposal sent “mixed signals,” said Marty Durbin, president of the U.S. Chamber’s Global Energy Institute.
“Our public lands and waters are already responsible for nearly a quarter of the country’s carbon pollution each year. Adding any new lease sales to that equation while the climate crisis is unfolding all around us is nonsensical,” said House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona.
“While Americans everywhere are suffering from record high gas prices and disruptions in the global oil market caused by Putin’s senseless war in Ukraine, the Department of the Interior hasn’t held any successful offshore lease sales since November 2020,” the West Virginia lawmaker said.
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