West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said he was “appalled” by an internal memo suggesting the Interior Department set the highest possible royalty fee on potential oil and gas development before last year’s Cook Inlet lease sale.
from the U.S. Interior Department suggesting that the agency set the highest possible royalty fee on potential oil and gas development before last year’s Cook Inlet lease sale is drawing blowback from the Democratic chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
The 24-page memo was written in November by Amanda Lefton, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and is addressed to, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be an assistant Interior secretary of land and minerals management. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management oversees the federal offshore oil and gas leasing program.
“Nevertheless, because of the serious challenges facing the nation from climate change and the impact of from fossil fuels, is not recommending this option since it would not include an appropriate surcharge to account for those impacts,” the memo says.Daniel-Davis signed off on the memo, approving the higher royalty fee for the sale.
Murkowski also issued a statement condemning the document, saying in a statement Friday that “it shows a policy of working against domestic production, rather than promoting it. This administration may never feel the consequences, but Alaskans sure will, and that is completely unacceptable.”“The Inflation Reduction Act, which mandated this lease sale, is first and foremost an energy security bill,” Manchin said.
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