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NEW YORK (Reuters)-- The Trump administration heralded the government's sale last month of U.S. drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico as a bellwether.

The Obama administration has cancelled two sales of off - shore drilling leases in the Arctic, following Shell's announcement to end exploratory operations in the region.

President Barack Obama is unilaterally blocking the government from issuing new offshore drilling leases in large parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, which media outlets have described as «permanent.»

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.

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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.

She signed her own gas lease to allow fracking on the farm near Ulster, pocketing $ 13,600 starting back in 2006, but no company drilled on her land.

In Bradford County, the pleasant pond at the vacation home of Truman and Bonnie Burnett is a murky swamp, ringed by dead trees, after tens of thousands of gallons of drilling fluid spilled in 2009 from the property of their neighbor, who had signed a gas leasIn Bradford County, the pleasant pond at the vacation home of Truman and Bonnie Burnett is a murky swamp, ringed by dead trees, after tens of thousands of gallons of drilling fluid spilled in 2009 from the property of their neighbor, who had signed a gas leasin 2009 from the property of their neighbor, who had signed a gas lease.

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.

(Others in Dimock claim they were told that if they refused to sign a lease, gas would be taken out from under their land anyway, since under Pennsylvania law a well drilled on a leased piece of property can capture gas from neighboring, unleased properties.)

Tuesday's indictment followed a nearly four - year federal antitrust probe that began after a 2012 Reuters investigation found that Chesapeake had discussed with a rival how to suppress land lease prices in Michigan during a shale - drilling boom.

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.

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

The two plaintiffs in the case hold drilling leases with two gas companies, Norse and Chesapeake.

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.

They include land owners in the Marcellus Shale region with gas drilling leases and workers who live in New York but have jobs that are dependent on gas drilling elsewhere.

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).

From an offshore drilling moratorium to a de facto one put in place through the permitting and leasing process, American energy and the jobs it creates have too often been pushed aside by the Obama administration and its allies in Washington.

Schaller: Well, the thing is the Arctic slope, almost 90 percent of it is leased already to oil companies and hasn't been drilled, but they still want that little corner of the Arctic Refuge because they know if they can get in there, they can get in anywhere.

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 proceedIn 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 proceedin 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.

Obama will visit the Gulf again on May 28 and ordered today an extension of a moratorium on new offshore drilling in all U.S. waters until the end of the year as well as cancelled planned lease sales.

Although most oil and gas activities are now occurring only in the Beaufort Sea, primarily near Prudhoe Bay, there has been a recent lease sale in the Chukchi Sea, NOAA notes, and the agency expects oil exploration and drilling to increase there.

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.

In order to drill in offshore federal waters, companies bid on leases that grant them the rights to oil and gas productioIn order to drill in offshore federal waters, companies bid on leases that grant them the rights to oil and gas productioin offshore federal waters, companies bid on leases that grant them the rights to oil and gas production.

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 GeorgiIn 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 Georgiin federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.

They leased my mineral rights back in 2008, drilled the well in 2011 and have come back three times since then to re-frack the well.

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.

In this illustration, hypothetical well pads and access roads (shown in yellow) are placed over existing leases in the northeastern portion of Allegheny County that have not yet been drilled (orangeIn this illustration, hypothetical well pads and access roads (shown in yellow) are placed over existing leases in the northeastern portion of Allegheny County that have not yet been drilled (orangein yellow) are placed over existing leases in the northeastern portion of Allegheny County that have not yet been drilled (orangein the northeastern portion of Allegheny County that have not yet been drilled (orange).

To get truly serious about addressing climate change, Washington must end the billions in subsidies going to the industry and move to keep fossil fuels in the ground by banning drilling offshore and ending the fossil fuel leasing program on public lands.

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.

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.

PHOTOS: 29 July: SeattlePI Blog: Protesters rappel from Portland bridge seeking to keep Shell icebreaker from departing The «Shell No» campaign moved to Portland on Wednesday, as demonstrators rappelling off a bridge and «kayakctivists» in the water sought to block departure of a Shell - leased icebreaker that has a vital role to play in the oil giant's Arctic drilling plans.

... They were replicating the protests, sponsored by Greenpeace, that greeted the arrival — and tried to block the departure — of the Shell - leased drilling rig «Polar Pioneer» during its spring stay at Terminal 5 in the Port of Seattle.

Oil leasing and drilling has picked up again in the Gulf of Mexico, following a hiatus after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout disaster in 2010.

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.

We could do that — if radical greens in the Obama Administration, United Nations and eco pressure groups would end their ideological opposition to leasing, drilling, fracking, Outer Continental Shelf and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge development, Canadian oil sands, the Keystone pipeline and countless other projects.

But whatever bids are made next Wednesday, and in upcoming lease sales, that doesn't mean we'll see drilling tomorrow.

In May 2010, as oil continued to gush into the Gulf from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, President Obama canceled a pending lease sale that would have opened Virginia's coastline to the dangers of offshore oil drilling.

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

About 100 miles south of the storied Drake Well, in 2004, Range drilled the first gas well into the shale on leased farmland in Mount Pleasant Township.

The world's first oil well was drilled here, on leased farmland in Titusville in 1859.

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.

The Obama administration must say no to drilling in the Arctic Ocean, cancel these leases, and remove future leasing from the five - year offshore drilling plan.»