Biden wanders to Leadville Colorado and claims another “monument” which adds another 53,000 acres to the U.S. land holdings. Not done there he looks to block all offshore leases everywhere which is totally illegal and the courts have ruled it thus.
First the latest:
LEADVILLE, Colo., Oct 12 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared a rugged, mountainous section of Colorado a national monument during his first stop on a tour of the U.S. West.
Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument to protect the 53,804-acre (21,770-hectare) area during a ceremony at the site.
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Biden also announced that he is blocking new mining claims and mineral leases on approximately 225,000 acres (91,050 hectares) in the Thompson Divide area of western Colorado for at least two years and possibly for two decades.
Let’s not stop here. Biden admin weighs complete block on offshore oil drilling as gas prices keep rising
We posted previously about this. The ninety day posting of intent has ended.
The Biden administration is nearing a decision on the future of federal offshore fossil fuel drilling and hasn’t ruled out a complete block on new leases.
On Thursday, the 90-day comment period for the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) proposed five-year offshore leasing plan ended, paving the way for the agency to issue a final decision. In July, the DOI unveiled the plan which gutted a Trump administration proposal, ruling out any leasing in the Atlantic or Pacific and opening the door to an unprecedented scenario where no lease sales would be held through 2028.
Under the DOI’s proposal, the federal government could choose to hold anywhere between 0-11 offshore lease sales, compared to the Trump administration’s version which called for 47 such sales. Federal law mandates the interior secretary to issue offshore leasing plans every five years laying out prospective oil and gas lease sales.
However, the administration dragged its feet on a replacement plan as it considered objections from environmental groups, which oppose all new fossil fuel leasing, and pressure from industry as gas prices surged. In her statement announcing the proposal on July 1, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reaffirmed her and President Biden’s “commitment to transition to a clean energy economy.”
“Every previous administration, whether Republican or Democrat, has recognized the strategic advantages of U.S. offshore domestic energy and fulfilled their statutory obligation to maintain an offshore leasing program and continuously hold lease sales,” Frank Macchiarola — API’s senior vice president of policy, economics and regulatory affairs — told reporters on a call Thursday. “Yet, the Biden administration has failed to address current and future U.S. energy needs.”
“Announcing a program with zero new lease sales would be the exact wrong policy at the wrong time,” he said.
From Fox
Recall 90 days previously this post:
Interior Secretary Humiliated at Hearing Over Energy Leases
July 14, 2022 — bunkerville
Native American Secretary Haaland is the head of the Department of Interior. She controls the oil and gas leases on Federal land and she doesn’t plan on going anywhere with them regardless what the court says. The lease plan was due by law, and reinforced by court order to be due June 30, 2022. NOTE: This Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) back in May confronted Sec. of the Interior Deb Haaland about a statement the department released in the middle of a hearing.
‘My God… This Shuts It Down!’: Manchin Confronts Haaland With Statement From Her Dept On Drilling
WATCH: Sen. Manchin asks Interior Secretary Deb Haaland about memo cancelling oil drilling leases.
MANCHIN: “It looks like you all are going to shut everything down.”
HAALAND: “I am sorry. I am sitting in this hearing…”
MANCHIN: “My God.
Murkowski, a Republican, questioned Interior Secretary Deb Haaland about the department’s proposed five-year offshore drilling plan, which includes 10 lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and another in Cook Inlet. The Biden administration has made clear that it may not move forward with any of the proposed sales.
Murkowski raised concerns that the administration would not follow through on the lease sale, especially after the Interior Department canceled a different sale in Cook Inlet in May.
“I think there was a lot of concern in May when the department canceled lease sale 258 citing lack of industry interest, and I can say with real certainty that was not the case,” Murkowski said.
President Joe Biden’s Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said she was “not sure what to say” when fact checked on cancelled energy leases, during a Senate Appropriations committee hearing on President Joe Biden’s 2023 budget for the Department of the Interior on 7/13/2022.
More lies, spin, spin, spin. There never was any intention of giving out leases.
Biden Interior Sec Can’t Say If It’s Better To Produce Oil In US Than Venezuela: “Not An Economist”
Wander over to the post for more of this sheer nonsense and her ridiculous behavior here
Biden is following Obama’s old playbook with using the Monument Act to land grab as well as refuse leasing apparently. But this is a very different time.
Interior Dept. held in Contempt Over Oil Drilling Ban
February 3, 2011 — bunkerville
The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling after the Gulf oil spill held the Interior Department in contempt Wednesday, and ordered the federal agency to pay attorneys’ fees for several offshore oil companies.
After Feldman overturned the government’s moratorium in June, the agency issued a second nearly identical suspension.
“Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the reimposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium and in light of the national importance of this case, provide this court with clear and convincing evidence of the government’s contempt of this court’s preliminary injunction order,” he wrote
Is Biden just wanting to stick it to us? With the entire world in turmoil over energy one has to question his cognitive process and making such a decision now. He gets angry with the Saudi’s for what? Not bailing him out for the November election when we are up to our own eyeballs in resources? We got a glimpse of it when he was in Fort Myers. We heard the same thing regarding the Prosecutor in the Ukraine.
We should pay attention to it. Senility doesn’t always go quietly into that dark night.
The very best of the swamp.
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