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Producing significant amounts of oil from offshore leases in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas is quite a few years away because of permitting delays, serial lawsuits filed by environmental pressure groups, and the physical challenges involved in building the necessary offshore infrastructure in the Arctic Ocean.
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The Trump Interior Department announced Thursday plans to offer blocks in the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans for oil and gas exploration in an ambitious new five - year offshore lease plan.
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.
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.
«I applaud today's announcement by Secretary Ryan Zinke to offer the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history.
«The administration's decision to move forward with the largest offshore lease sale in our nation's history is a key part of that effort.
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.
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.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is asking the federal government to extend the public comment period on proposed new lease sales for offshore wind in the New York Bight, a step that could delay the process for up to six months.
The plan includes the potential lease of acreage in federal offshore areas such as the Atlantic region.
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.
The U.S. Interior Department has sold leases for offshore oil and gas development in the Arctic Ocean throughout the Bush administration.
New York is next in line for a lease sale this month, with a large offshore wind farm proposed 11 miles off the coast of Long Island.
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.
Wind development areas were leased off the Delaware and Maryland shores last year, and the BOEM issued the nation's first offshore wind research lease in March to Virginia's Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, which plans to build a 12 megawatt wind farm off the shore of Virginia Beach.
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.
US Wind responded to this Call for to acquire commercial wind leases in four areas offshore South Carolina.
On Nov. 23, 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published a Call for Information and Nominations to gauge the offshore wind industry's interest in acquiring commercial wind leases in four areas offshore South Carolina and to request comments.
Summerland Offshore Oil Field is a separate field in the Santa Barbara Channel about one and a half miles offshore, but within the 3 - mile limit inside of which oil leasing is subject to state rather than federal regulation.
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.
The draft five - year plan also proposes the largest number of offshore oil and gas lease sales in U.S. history.
So far, just one company, Trident Winds LLC, has applied for a lease to construct an offshore facility in California.
With the Obama administration's decision not to include the Atlantic in the next federal offshore leasing program, let's connect some dots that put this unfortunate decision in a fuller context — one where the administration is choosing retreat instead of progress with its energy strategy.
«We have made impressive gains, approving dozens of utility - scale solar, wind and geothermal projects in the West and transitioning from planning to commercial leasing for offshore wind,» Outgoing Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told some 300 industry leaders in a keynote address at the Offshore Wind Power USA Conference in Boston February 26.
That means the initial projects on 14 offshore federal leases will be more expensive to build and produce costlier power — whether European equipment is used or its manufacture in America is developed.
In a move to spur renewable energy developments in the outer continental shelf, the federal government has issued five exploratory leases to five offshore wind energy companieIn a move to spur renewable energy developments in the outer continental shelf, the federal government has issued five exploratory leases to five offshore wind energy companiein the outer continental shelf, the federal government has issued five exploratory leases to five offshore wind energy companies.
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.
Oil and gas leasing and exploration activities are intensifying not only in certain parts of the Reserve but also on adjacent offshore areas in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.
Maryland Lease Auction Winner In August the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that U.S. Wind Inc., a unit of Italy's Renexia, is the provisional winner of the auction for Maryland's offshore wind lease areas.
Last Friday, President Obama's Interior Department announced it was canceling plans for offshore oil and natural - gas lease sales in the...
But «after years of regulatory planning and leasing, confidence in the nascent U.S. offshore wind market has increased,» DOE reported.
Shell has been trying for six years — and has spent billions in the process — to explore its outer continental shelf leases offshore Alaska.
In order to participate in the lease sale, potential bidders whom BOEM has determined are qualified to hold an OCS lease for commercial wind offshore North Carolina must submit a response to this notice by the end of the 60 - day comment period, affirming their continued interest in the area being offered for leasinIn order to participate in the lease sale, potential bidders whom BOEM has determined are qualified to hold an OCS lease for commercial wind offshore North Carolina must submit a response to this notice by the end of the 60 - day comment period, affirming their continued interest in the area being offered for leasinin the lease sale, potential bidders whom BOEM has determined are qualified to hold an OCS lease for commercial wind offshore North Carolina must submit a response to this notice by the end of the 60 - day comment period, affirming their continued interest in the area being offered for leasinin the area being offered for leasing.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the federal regulator that oversees offshore wind development, announced plans to publish two major documents that close in on eventual offshore wind leasing.
No offshore oil and natural gas leases have been sold in the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) since 1984, with the last of those limited to off southern and central California.
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.
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.
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.
The company won the lease for $ 42.5 million, demonstrating the powerful commercial interest in developing offshore wind for New York State.
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.
In 1999, however, Mr. Babbitt found himself at odds with environmentalists in Santa Barbara County for extending the life of 36 offshore oil leases, just as they were about to expirIn 1999, however, Mr. Babbitt found himself at odds with environmentalists in Santa Barbara County for extending the life of 36 offshore oil leases, just as they were about to expirin Santa Barbara County for extending the life of 36 offshore oil leases, just as they were about to expire.
In other words, the significance of the DOI auction is really more about public sector support for offshore wind innovation rather than how many homes the leases will potentially power.
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.
On Tuesday, Obama designated «the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing.»
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.»
The right energy policy path is for BOEM to produce a robust offshore leasing program that fits with the United States» rise to world leadership in oil and natural gas production.
«We're going to bid for leases,» Grimbert says, adding that the company aims to become a leading player in the US offshore market, adding to its multi-gigawatt fleet of onshore wind and solar plants in the country.
To date, BOEM has awarded 11 commercial offshore wind leases, including nine through the competitive lease sale process (two offshore New Jersey, two in an area offshore Rhode Island - Massachusetts, another two offshore Massachusetts, two offshore Maryland and one offshore Virginia).
Keep It in the Ground: Ending new fossil fuel leasing on America's public lands and offshore areas would keep up to 450 billion tons of greenhouse gases from polluting our atmosphere, says an important recent study.