Sentences with phrase «oil leases»

This is the end of oil leases in Alaska.

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

Making future U.S. offshore oil leasing more consistent with climate goals.

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.

The plan is modeled after the Alaska Permanent Fund, which pays equal dividends to Alaskan residents from the proceeds generated from state oil leases.

How could a little - known British firm with two employees and no producing assets end up owning the largest oil lease ever issued in the Canadian Arctic?

If the moratorium was lifted, the MMS would «evaluate the tracts... to be sure the public gets fair market value» for oil leases.

And to have this circus following right on the heels of the Alaska oil leases acceleration vs. polar bear endangered species decision delay.

I laid into Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week, when he announced new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico with a hand - in - glove tone about the relationship with oil companies and his Department.

After serving as a Navy pilot in World War II, he sold «everything we owned [«we» being a wife and three children], including the house and car» to buy California oil leases.

The grant program began about 25 years ago when the National Park Service began setting aside money from off - shore oil leases and formed the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

The scientists are asking Obama to go even further and fully remove the Beaufort and Chukchi seas from the federal government's Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Program, which governs offshore oil leasing through 2022.

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.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

With President - elect Donald Trump pledging to expand offshore drilling, a coalition of environmental groups called on President Obama to permanently protect federal waters from expanded oil leasing.

Announces intent soon to initiate the process for selling oil leases in the fragile, irreplaceable Refuge

Jerry Patterson, commissioner of the land office that oversees oil leases that help fund Texas schools, asked the Texas Railroad Commission to conduct hearings into an alleged 1990s program at Exxon Mobil of plugging abandoned wells with trash, sludge, explosives and cement plugs.

The Interior Dept. is holding the biggest oil lease sale ever next week, and trying to extend drilling to all U.S. coasts, but experts say Trump's plan for «energy dominance» is economically and environmentally flawed.

Assembly Hearing to Investigate the Effects Gas and Oil Drilling Offshore The state Assembly led by Speaker Carl Heastie 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.

Just as every Alaska resident receives an equal dividend from revenue from state oil leases, so every American would get an equal dividend from carbon permit auctions.

You are the same Bryan Sralla who heads Hewitt Minerals and has recently been involved in bidding on oil leases, are you not?

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 expire.

Berenergy obtained its oil leases from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management in the 1960s.

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.

Through court and administrative challenges of unlawfully issued permits and oil leases and advocacy work along with our coalition partners, Earthjustice has succeeded in keeping open the question of whether these seas should be open to oil drilling at all.