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By Kevin Killough
Published: April 20, 2024 10:23pm
The decisions include shutting down the Ambler Access Road project, which would have opened up part of Alaska to mining needed for renewable energy, and blocking oil and gas drilling on up to 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Conservation Leases
The third action the Interior Department took Friday was the finalizing of the Public Lands Rule. According to a statement from the Department of the Interior, the rule is meant to “guide the balanced management of America’s public lands.”
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The rule creates a regulatory structure to facilitate what the department is now referring to as “restoration leases” or “mitigation leases.” These leases were rebranded from the original Bureau of Land Management proposal published in April 2023, which referred to them as “conservation leases.”
The leases work just like oil and gas or cattle grazing leases, except the “use” of the land would be to conserve it, which typically means erasing or eliminating human impact on the untouched landscape.The Biden administration Friday rolled out three decisions aimed at greatly restricting oil and gas drilling, as well as mining activities needed for renewable energy, on public land.
The decisions include shutting down the Ambler Access Road project, which would have opened up part of Alaska to mining needed for renewable energy, and blocking oil and gas drilling on up to 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Yep let's make it where we can't produce or sell anything. Then everyone needs the government.
By Kevin Killough
Published: April 20, 2024 10:23pm
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The decisions include shutting down the Ambler Access Road project, which would have opened up part of Alaska to mining needed for renewable energy, and blocking oil and gas drilling on up to 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Conservation Leases
The third action the Interior Department took Friday was the finalizing of the Public Lands Rule. According to a statement from the Department of the Interior, the rule is meant to “guide the balanced management of America’s public lands.”
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The rule creates a regulatory structure to facilitate what the department is now referring to as “restoration leases” or “mitigation leases.” These leases were rebranded from the original Bureau of Land Management proposal published in April 2023, which referred to them as “conservation leases.”
The leases work just like oil and gas or cattle grazing leases, except the “use” of the land would be to conserve it, which typically means erasing or eliminating human impact on the untouched landscape.The Biden administration Friday rolled out three decisions aimed at greatly restricting oil and gas drilling, as well as mining activities needed for renewable energy, on public land.
The decisions include shutting down the Ambler Access Road project, which would have opened up part of Alaska to mining needed for renewable energy, and blocking oil and gas drilling on up to 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Yep let's make it where we can't produce or sell anything. Then everyone needs the government.
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