Sentences with phrase «hold federal leases»

As part of the plan, the BLM, which controls millions of acres of public lands with the Forest Service, will regulate miners, energy developers and ranchers who hold federal leases to work in sage brush wilderness in 10 states.

Not exact matches

While the Obama administration put commercial leasing on hold, then, elsewhere in the federal government people have been feverishly researching ways to facilitate the development of America's oilsands and oil shale.

Also at 10:30 a.m., the state Assembly will hold a public hearing to examine the impact of the proposed federal offshore natural gas and oil lease authorization on the state's environment, Legislative Auditorium, William H. Rogers Building, 725 Veterans Memorial Highway, Smithtown, Long Island.

Last week, DOE announced it will hold an auction for the rights to build wind turbines in 344,000 acres of federal waters off New Jersey in November, the latest of several lease auctions it has announced (E&EN ews PM, Sept. 23).

Since then, federal government lease sales have been held for areas off the coasts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware.

Combined, oil and gas companies hold leases to nearly 68 million acres of federal land and waters that they are not producing oil and gas (Figure 4).

The court ruling involved new federal coal leases in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana that expanded projects holding some 2 billion tons of coal.

In holding these lease sales, the federal agency failed to consider the far - reaching impacts of the wave of oil and gas development they are meant to encourage.

Today's announcement builds on BOEM's work to foster offshore renewable energy development through a collaborative state - federal process to identify Wind Energy Areas and hold competitive lease sales.

Dec. 2016: The Department of the Interior holds mineral rights lease sales of a lesser known Arctic Alaska federal public lands holding: the National Petroleum Reserve — Alaska (NPR - A).

This status quo is held in place by the federal government's five - year leasing plan that excludes the areas in red from lease sales at least through 2017.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is scheduled to hold a public hearing today in Wilmington, N.C., on its draft five - year offshore oil and natural gas leasing program.

The termination of the earlier lease takes place by the federal minister giving notice in writing to the person who holds the lease.27 The variation of the compulsory five - year lease to include the area previously excluded takes place by the federal minister giving notice in writing to the relevant owner of the land.28 Both notices are deemed not to be legislative instruments.29