Sentences with phrase «holding lease auctions»

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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).

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which manages wind resources off the U.S. coast, held the country's largest offshore wind development lease auction in January for 742,000 acres of open water 12 miles off the shore of Martha's Vineyard.

But recent lease sales held by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM)-- auctioning off huge tracts of the reserve to the oil and gas industry — don't bode well for the future of this important habitat.

Last month the Department of Interior (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) held its first competitive auction for commercial solar development on public lands, offering three parcels for lease with a collective acreage of 3,700 in the San Luis Valley of Colorado.

An auction will be held later this year for two lease areaas of Massachusetts, it was confirmed.

The announcement comes one week before DOI's first competitive offshore wind lease auction is held for 164,750 acres for development off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island on July 31st, an event Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has said could set the pace for future auctions.

Considering that the BLM is prohibited from cashing checks for land leased at auction until the merits of the case are heard, I wonder Tim DeChristopher who placed an inspired $ 1.7 million bogus bid to protect some of that land from development will make an effort to actual raise the cash needed to hold onto his lease.