Sentences with phrase «drilling leases for»

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The plan would open the door for drilling in areas far beyond the U.S. epicenter of offshore drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico, giving oil and gas companies the opportunity to explore areas left out of leases for decades.

Companies in this industry lease out equipment for activities related to air, sea, and rail transport, as well as construction of highways, roads, tunnels, bridges, and oil drilling.

On Tuesday, the administration announced that it will sell leases for nearly 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling — the largest offering ever.

Expanding offshore drilling April 28 In the same executive order, Trump ordered the Department of the Interior to create a new five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf for oil and gas exploration.

Demanding non-competetive lease arrangements for drilling on public land does not prevent Oil companies from railing against government red tape.

One of those items was a five - year lease plan from the Department of Interior, for the years 2017 through 2022, which includes territories the federal government plans on auctioning off for oil and gas drilling on the outer continental shelf.

This startling documentary follows Josh Fox, who's asked to lease his land to a gas company so they can drill for natural gas.

The Post reported back in August that Jacobs, who owns several successful summer camps, has signed a drilling lease with Hess for some on some 140 acres of land at his Tyler Hill camp, just over the border from New York's Catskill Mountains.

Cuomo announced a ban against offshore drilling and exploration with the «Save Our Waters» bill, which prohibits the leasing of lands, including underwater lands, for offshore drilling and exploration in New York state waters.

A newly formed coalition includes drilling companies, labor unions including the Pipetrades Association, and some landowners who want to lease their property for drilling.

Kate Watson who runs a 340 acre organic farm in Sharon, says for some, the possibility of a drilling lease offers a financial lifeline.

They never leased their property for drilling.

Cuomo advanced the «Save Our Waters» bill to prohibit the leasing of lands, including underwater lands, for offshore drilling and exploration in New York state waters.

Once the tax bill passes with this important language in it, Trump needs to sign 75 year drilling leases with oil companies for the Democrats can't undo this in the future.

While Cuomo says it is okay to proceed cautiously, some landowners with gas drilling leases are growing impatient for fracking to begin.

While Cuomo says go it's OK to proceed cautiously, some landowners with gas drilling leases are growing impatient for fracking to begin.

Under the terms of a landmark tax reform bill, which opened the door for drilling in ANWR, Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) must hold at least two lease sales before December 2024 (E&E Daily, Dec. 20, 2017).

«The Minerals Management Service was set to finalize the sales of leases for exploratory oil and gas drilling off the coast of Alaska,» says Andrew Wetzler, director of the NRDC's Endangered Species Project.

In October, Congress approved a conference report attached to the U.S. Department of Interior's appropriations bill that cited expanded leasing in the Arctic Ocean, including seismic testing and exploratory drilling, and called for independent scientific analysis before the agency proceeds.

The BLM rejected Ritter's proposal in the spring, instead going with an all - out lease with staggered drilling plans for the top of the plateau and less land set aside for special protection.

Earlier this year Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D) proposed allowing drilling on top of the Roan and around its base under incremental, phased leasing that would parcel out one plot for development at a time.

The story takes place in a rural New England town, where oil company workers Steve and Sue (Damon and McDormand) are trying to secure the leases needed to drill for natural gas.

If I had a lease and wanted to drill a well, I would go to the money person and say, «I'll put up 25 percent of the cost, you put up 75 percent, and you're going to get a two - thirds interest and I'm going to get a one - third interest for my 25 percent.»

I note we're just now starting to lease the seabed offshore of the Carolinas for more fossil fuel drilling — it's another rich area.

Shell has spent $ 4.5 billion and nearly seven years obtaining leases to drill for oil in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off the Alaskan coast.

In its draft leasing plan that will set the boundaries for oil development in federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.

We thought it would be useful for folks to see where all the oil and gas leases are in the county, relative to the Marcellus Shale gas drilling and fracking that has already happened.

Seismic airgun surveys are the first step toward offshore drilling, of course, but under the current five - year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas leasing program adopted by the Obama Administration, the Atlantic can not be considered for drilling.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new offshore oil and gas plan from the U.S. Department of the Interior blocks two drilling leases in the Arctic, but allows a new lease in Alaska's Cook Inlet and 10 new leases in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years — a step that will worsen climate change by ensuring significant greenhouse gas pollution for the next 70 years.

A week after approval of the Final 2030 Scoping Plan in California, future Arctic Refuge lease sales for oil drilling is approved by Congress, and signed into law in the last days before the holiday.

Also newsworthy is the Trump Administration's capricious process for public participation and comment on the release of a draft 5 - year plan for outer continental shelf offshore drilling in U.S. federal waters, including Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's back - and - forth exemption of Florida and the inclusion of Arctic leases.

Fracking opponent Josh Fox is a filmmaker (and Academy Award nominee for «Gasland») who was asked to lease his land for drilling.

It would also stop new leases for offshore drilling in the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico and prohibit offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

This month, Hansen publicly defended Tim DeChristopher, the student who faces jail time for bidding on oil leases, without any money, to prevent drilling.

Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, slams a bill promoted by his own party leadership that would speed up lease sales and permitting for offshore oil drilling.

Oil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussed.

«The BLM's environmental analysis for the March lease sale completely fails to quantify of the very real, direct greenhouse gas emissions that will result from allowing these areas to be drilled and fracked and both analyses fail to quantify cumulative impacts from greenhouse gases.

The president also calls for expanding cheap leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands, along nearly all our coastlines and on lands set aside to protect endangered wildlife.

Weiss said oil companies already hold thousands of leases to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Nearly half the Pennsylvania state forestland in the shale formation, 700,000 acres, is now leased for drilling.

Early excerpts from the platform appear flush with Mitt Romney's positions in calling for drilling in ANWR (which would require congressional approval), opening more coastal regions to oil - and - gas leasing, and other policies.

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«Save Our Waters» bill to prohibit the leasing of lands, including underwater lands, for offshore drilling and exploration in New York state waters.

But because the gas industry had a head start on its critics, and was willing to spend huge sums to influence local and state politicians, fracking was soon firmly ensconced in places like Pennsylvania, which was even leasing state forest land for drilling.

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Well, this one starts by opening up the North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, clearing the way for oil shale development on public lands, and allowing offshore drilling on heretofore off - limits areas of the Atlanta and Pacific coasts - including, of course, California.

Landowners who sign away mineral leases may be ineligible for mortgages, presenting a real financial risk long before any drilling starts.

The proposed lease sale for the Mid - and South Atlantic is slated to take place in 2021, with drilling following thereafter.