Tried desperately to auction drilling rights for lands contiguous to national parks, allow mining wastes to be dumped into rivers and streams, and exempt factory farms from critical environmental regulations.
He will auction drilling rights for lands contiguous to national parks, allow mining wastes to be dumped into rivers and streams, and exempt factory farms from critical environmental regulations.
Last June, the government auctioned 12 oil drilling sites for $178 million.
It could not have been more timely, coming just as the Interior Department was concluding its first auction of new drilling leases in the gulf since the spill.
OO Oil, Gas Industry Leaders Eagerly Invest In Future Climate Change - Take Stakes In Mexican Offshore Fields paying billions in an auction of deepwater drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico, further nailing the coffin lid of their children's future - and ours.
For years, Mr. Jacques, of Cheyenne Drilling, scoured auctions and junkyards to piece together the equipment to build drilling rigs and stay in business.
Just weeks earlier on August 19, BOEM, which is administering the Gulf offshore drilling lease auction, opened up for public comment a 2018 lease of another 72 million acres of Gulf of Mexico waters to the oil and gas industry.
JAY O'HARA: I was looking at Tim DeChristopher, who spent nearly two years in federal prison for disrupting a federal drilling lease auction and who's been helping us in our trial, and Tim's jaw just dropped as DA Sutter read his statement.
The leasing decisions came just weeks earlier, with the most recent one taking place as an online rather than in-person drilling lease auction, the product of industry and U.S. government backlash against efforts such as the Keep It In The Ground campaign which aim to block fossil fuel project development.
At the end of 2008, Tim DeChristopher, a young economics student at the University of Utah, strolled into a federal auction of oil and gas drilling rights to prime Utah wilderness.
