As President Joe Biden’s policies continue to generate poor outcomes for Americans, an announcement from the Department of the Interior Friday heading into a holiday weekend suggested an attempt at course correction that appears only to be drawing more ire from both sides of the domestic oil production debate.
At the onset of his presidency, Biden introduced a moratorium on drilling leases for oil and gas on federal lands. While the legality of that action makes its way through the courts and following the decision for an ongoing release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) quietly announced the beginning of a “reset” on the “use of Americans’ resources” in an effort to address high fuel costs.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland released a statement Friday to announce the resumption of drilling leases on select federal lands, declaring, “How we manage our public lands and waters says everything about what we value as a nation. For too long, the federal oil and gas leasing programs have prioritized the wants of extractive industries above local communities, the natural environment, the impact of our air and water, the needs of Tribal Nations, and, moreover, other uses of our shared public lands.”
“Today,” she noted, “we begin to reset how and what we consider to be the highest and best use of Americans’ resources for the benefit of all current and future generations.”
For too long, the federal oil and gas leasing programs have prioritized the wants of extractive industries above local communities, the natural environment, the impact on our air and water, the needs of Tribal Nations, and other uses of our shared public lands.
— Secretary Deb Haaland (@SecDebHaaland) April 16, 2022
After analyzing 646 parcels from nearly 733,000 acres of federal land in states like Alabama, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming, the BLM concluded that they would offer about 173 parcels on around 144,000 acres. This, they say is “an 80 percent reduction from the acreage originally nominated.”
As would be expected, climate activists were none too pleased with the decision as The Wall Street Journal reported that Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians climate and energy program director, stated, “This is pure climate denial. While the Biden administration talks a good talk on climate action, the reality is, they’re in bed with the oil and gas industry.”
However, that argument negates the decision by the BLM to increase the royalty rate on the leases to 18.75 percent from the current 12.5 percent on the value of extracted resources. This decision, along with the administration’s continued hesitancy to unleash American energy production, is leaving the industry leery of the long-term impact of these policies.
Chief Operating Officer C. Jeffery Eshelman from the Independent Petroleum Association of America noted that the announcement timed with Passover and Easter didn’t help and stated, “This administration has begged for more oil from foreign nations, blames American energy producers for gouging and sitting on leases. Now, on a late holiday announcement, under pressure, it announces a lease sale with major royalty increases that will add uncertainty to drilling plans for years.”
Likewise, Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president with the American Petroleum Institute, told Fox News, that while the move is a step in the right direction, and is in line with what the law dictates, “we are concerned that this action adds new barriers to increasing energy productions, including removing some of the most significant parcels.”
“At a time of high energy costs, these changes to long-standing fair and reasonable lease terms may further discourage oil and natural gas investment on federal lands,” Macchiarola added. “We look forward to seeing the additional details of the leasing proposal.”
Anne Bradbury, chief executive for the American Exploration and Production Council echoed Macchiarola’s statement.
“While today’s announcement is a step in the right direction, to really unleash American energy the Biden administration should continue to hold ongoing lease sales pursuant to the Mineral Leasing Act, issue permits more expeditiously and provide consistent regulatory certainty,” she said, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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This is not enough! He needs to open our pipeline and let us get our own oil, and stop emptying out our reserves. He puts more restrictions on those places to drill, when we were doing a good job with the pipeline, even able to sell some.
He is doing this at a much higher lease cost….which keeps gas & oil prices high! He MUST finish the Keystone and other pipelines! Go back to total energy independence!
LGB FJB
Too little to late!
Joey is just doing this until the mid-terms, then he will revert to kissing the derriere of AOC and the rest of the climate crazies.
Wonder what puppet master pulled these strings? That’s right…there is an election coming up!
i said last year they would say lets drill its a election year thats all it is . if they stay in power it will be reversed and i bet they wont put the reserves back fjb and the dumbdonkey crew
Exactly biker ,he’s fkd up everything he’s touched.
Of course it’s an election move because the stinking demorats are running scared because of the low numbers and falling weekly .
The Mid term elections ,they know their going to get their ass’s kicked to the curb.
Fkjbiden has fkd the USA to near ruins in less than 2 short years .
May he hang from a tree in gitmo for treason . To destroy the USA.
Complete bs….. the obnoxious new price may severely decrease the purchases, this doing nothing for American energy and prices to the consumer but allowing (in the Biden admin mind) to blame it on the energy companies.
To little to late AHole .
You cancelled all President Trump did the day you stole the election .
Everything was self efficient in the USA and everything you touch is fkd up.
You fkd the Americans,the economy,all because of hate for President Trump .
You dementia snake ,need to be hung from a gitmo tree for treason .
You son of a bitch .
IMO, if this is a reset, it’s a very poor one. We should be drilling full steam ahead, not throwing in a punishment to the oil companies, and will result in little. Open the damned pipeline, and quit emptying the reserves. Foolish!
The Biden Administration is the scorpion. The O&G is the frog. The odds of the O&G industry getting stung by Biden are 100%. Wait them out!
Too little………….too late!
What a mixed bag of absolute doo-doo. Restart Keystone XL, and then let’s talk. Biden has had a hard on for the oil and gas industry for years. If they can turn a profit while I pay $2.50 for a gallon of gas in CA, that’s fine with me. Sure is better than $5.39.
SO . . . . These are new oil leases, Start Drilling, perhaps new oil in 6 – 8 months.
How about reinstating all of the leases on producing wells that were cancelled by “Executive Order last year? ? ? ? ?
Barry Age 77
PO1 USN RET
Vietnam 3x (Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club)
#FJB #LGB
There just is no agenda, no plan, no strategy, no direction. This administration is like a boat with NO rudder. The only constant (and a 24 hour per day job) at the WH is covering Slo Joe’s daily mistakes and gaffes.
Deb, I’ll translate this action for you. Joey and the Democrats think two things about America that are just plain wrong. One they think everyone is stupid enough to buy into their climate change BS. Unfortunately, Joey has his climate change czar flying around the world in his private jet and the normal people see this and realize that it’s just BS, if it was really that important he would be the FIRST one to cut his carbon footprint. Two, conservatives are the most important national security risk. Well, just look at how the viewership of MSNBCNN has dropped. Again, there’s been too many lies being debunked buy other sources for this to continue to be a viable boogeyman any longer.
Bottom line, Joey’s being forced to shift in the hopes of the Democrats keeping power, because that’s the ONLY thing they care about. Think I’m wrong, then why is Diane Feinstein, who is mentally worse off than Joey, planning to run again? I rest my case.
Let’s go Brandon!!!!!
to little to late. Let the F ing feds drill for oil. Bunch of assholes
Haaland is so incredibly incompetent she fits right in with the false administration .
What a bleepin’ jerk. Yeah, we can go back to work, but it’s going to cost us 33.3% more to produce the oil and gas for the republic and for our friends overseas. So counterproductive.
This is meaningless unless the other permits are granted. Right now the pretender’s administration is sitting on hundreds of related necessary permits associated with existing permits.
So BLM is in charge of “land management” under Biden, I wonder what ANTIFA is in charge
of?😅
No one is talking how bitme raising the taxes on lease cost, tax on product by the yard that comes out of the hole in the ground and all the other taxes states and Fed gov take in all the way to the pump along with what he calls a value added tax. The states and fed make many times more money on a gallon offuelthantheoilproducersdo.
Typical Biden Admin, making it look like they’re doing something yet doing nothing. This directive is about as meaningless as 1 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve.
Open up the whole thing, Joe!
Sooooooo they’re going to open 20% of the land they closed and that will be unproven land not where it’s easy to get to the oil and then they’ll increase lease fees by about 6%. Now that should certainly drop the price of oil and gas. Less area + Increased lease fees + more difficult oil recovery = ???? Certainly isn’t cheaper fuel. Why does the government own all this land anyway.
Simply this: the US debt is $30 trillion and rising. US gov’t. should SELL these lands (not simply lease them) and use these proceeds to pay off the debt it has accrued. If I were in debt I would be instructed to liquidate assets in order to meet the debt obligation – so I say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Sell the land – gov’t has no business owning property (and thus controlling it), anyway. And then you can get rid of the BLM. A two-fer.
Biden’s Chief Of Staff…..”Hey people, want to triple the size of our clean up staff”! “it’s taking too long people to clean up his messes”!
So why don’t these oil companies make a deal with private land owners that own the land next to where they wanted to drill on federal land?
Biden doesn’t have a clue about what is good for America. Moreover, he wouldn’t care even if he did. But, as feckless a fool as he is, that doesn’t mean he isn’t responsible for what’s happening to the US. He’s being instructed by not so much people who don’t have a clue or who don’t care about what’s good for America, but rather by people who are sincerely looking to hurt America. This new “idea” about drilling is not because it’s good for the country because they knew their “energy policy” was bad in the first place. Instead it’s a measure that they’re taking to fend off an electoral backlash to their policies that would harm their calculation of ensuring a congressional victory in the mid-term elections in November. There’s a big difference…a monumental difference…between what is good for Americans and what is good for the Democrats. American interests and the intentions of the Biden Administration aren’t in the same planet.
I wonder if they “analyzed” the areas and Found the ones most likely to NOT have any oil or gas??? THAT would be just par For the course For the evil minded leftists!! I do believe they are THAT sick!
For almost 50 years this imbecile we have as President , has nit made one single decision that helped America. It may have helped his fellow politicians or his crime family, but he’s always been wrong, he’s always been inept. He’s not a leader…. He’s a follower of failed Democratic policies….. even his own state is a mess. He’s anti-American and pro-Democrat. Too little, too late, quid pro quo, Joe
People might Finally take some advice From The Segment of Excrement Oblama and NOT UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO “F” THINGS UP!!
Look! Over here! We are letting a few worthless leases be issued to distract from the laundry list of regulations we put in place (to make the leases worthless), even if we did issue permits to extract the oil/gas (which we won’t)!
Don’t you feel better knowing we are doing something? BOHICA!!
it’s obvious the dems cut oil/gas reserves to drive up consumer prices. I wobder though, since those drilling companies have lost money and employees, how many dems have decided to invest in them at lower rates? Now they “agree” that these services should be resumed, and thrir persobal investments will skyrocket.
They have already made a financial windfall from the covid vaccine debacle.
Understand it by parable. A hostile teen takes his parent’s car and recklessly drives it into a tree, so that it has to undergo a major fix. When his parents discover it gone, that they can’t go to the store for groceries, he tells them that he is sorry, and offers to let them use his bike.
Inflation, crime, terrible economy, leaving people behind in Afghanistan, bombed and killed innocent children. The list goes on. Yet here is the kicker through all this. His leftist sycophants are still defending Biden with, “it’s not his fault.
The entire Biden Presidency: 1-Cause a problem. 2-Deny there’s a problem. 3-Finally admit there is a problem, but blame someone else. Rinse and repeat.
4. Try to put a bandaid on a gaping wound.
you forgot 3. invest while it’s a problem that many have walked away from” and 5. reap millions as you “restore services”
Too late, and damned too little from this Administration. 😡
I wholeheartedly agree. This administration is BAD for the USA
You have clearly articulated its goal.
Our corrupt media and Biden admin-are refuting their own failed policies, and nobody in the media is reporting on it. They are returning to what Trump did 6 years ago
This article may as well have been written in Swahili or something ‘cuz I have no idea what I just read. Are gas prices gonna go up, down, or sideways?
probably stay up, as Biden has told everyone to accept it. I’m confident that the dems have privately invested in the decline of services so now they are willing to “reset” to reap the profits.
Must be tough to be so constantly wrong about pretty much everything. Assuming he realizes it.
What a complete doofus!
I read yesterday that Klaus Schwab from the WEF has announced that the Great Reset has begun.