Biden plans to expand oil and gas drilling on public lands
An array of pumpjacks operate near the site of a new oil and gas well being drilled Friday, April 8, 2022, in Midland, Tex. As pressure increases on the Biden administration to lower the price of fuel, the Interior Department announced on Friday plans to hold its first onshore oil and gas lease sales since President Biden took office.
The long-awaited announcement follows a report the department issued last fall, which called for royalty fees to be more in line with the higher rates charged by most private landowners and major oil- and gas-producing states. The Biden administration’s willingness to move forward with oil and gas leasing angered climate activists, who called the department’s plans a betrayal of the president’s pledge to ban new drilling on public lands.According to the latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, issued last week, the world is on pace to burn through its remaining “carbon budge”” by 2030 — putting the ambitious goal of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius out of reach.
“This is pure climate denial,” Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director for WildEarth Guardians, said in a statement. “While the Biden administration talks a good talk on climate action, the reality is, they’re in bed with the oil and gas industry.” Interior officials portrayed the pending lease sales as a significantly scaled-back version of what might have been, describing it as a pragmatic approach. In a news release, they noted that the acreage offered for auction is 80 percent less than the 733,000 acres that oil and gas companies had hoped to bid on.
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