Quote (toyake @ Dec 12 2021 02:39pm)
Right, so they have even more permits to drill, almost like the right wing outrage is based off nothing :)
Quote (toyake @ Dec 12 2021 02:39pm)
Right, so they have even more permits to drill, almost like the right wing outrage is based off nothing :)
Media manipulation trying to put this as a good thing for Biden. When he literally had nothing to do with it.
“ Biden’s move was blunted in advance by not just a surge of more than three thousand applications for drilling permits just before he took office but by the fact that “the oil and gas industry has stockpiled millions of acres of leases on public lands and waters,” in the words of the Department of the Interior. As of March, more than half of the twenty-six million acres of federal lands leased to fossil fuel companies was sitting idle and not yet producing oil or gas, while the figure was nearly 80 percent for the twelve million acres of public waters.
And in any case, “older leases are responsible for most production and revenues on public land,” as the Center for American Progress explained in March. That report, ironically, defended Biden’s pause on the grounds that it wouldn’t do a whole lot to slow production and admonished the industry for “sitting idle” on, and “not creating any revenue or jobs” from, unused leased land they’d acquired from Trump’s mass sell-off of public lands.”