Biden wanders to Leadville Colorado and claims another “monument” which adds another 53,000 acres to the U.S. land holdings. Not done there he looks to block all offshore leases everywhere which is totally illegal and the courts have ruled it thus.
First the latest:
LEADVILLE, Colo., Oct 12 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared a rugged, mountainous section of Colorado a national monument during his first stop on a tour of the U.S. West.
Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument to protect the 53,804-acre (21,770-hectare) area during a ceremony at the site.
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Biden also announced that he is blocking new mining claims and mineral leases on approximately 225,000 acres (91,050 hectares) in the Thompson Divide area of western Colorado for at least two years and possibly for two decades.
Let’s not stop here. Biden admin weighs complete block on offshore oil drilling as gas prices keep rising
We posted previously about this. The ninety day posting of intent has ended.
The Biden administration is nearing a decision on the future of federal offshore fossil fuel drilling and hasn’t ruled out a complete block on new leases.
On Thursday, the 90-day comment period for the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) proposed five-year offshore leasing plan ended, paving the way for the agency to issue a final decision. In July, the DOI unveiled the plan which gutted a Trump administration proposal, ruling out any leasing in the Atlantic or Pacific and opening the door to an unprecedented scenario where no lease sales would be held through 2028.
Under the DOI’s proposal, the federal government could choose to hold anywhere between 0-11 offshore lease sales, compared to the Trump administration’s version which called for 47 such sales. Federal law mandates the interior secretary to issue offshore leasing plans every five years laying out prospective oil and gas lease sales.
However, the administration dragged its feet on a replacement plan as it considered objections from environmental groups, which oppose all new fossil fuel leasing, and pressure from industry as gas prices surged. In her statement announcing the proposal on July 1, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reaffirmed her and President Biden’s “commitment to transition to a clean energy economy.”
“Every previous administration, whether Republican or Democrat, has recognized the strategic advantages of U.S. offshore domestic energy and fulfilled their statutory obligation to maintain an offshore leasing program and continuously hold lease sales,” Frank Macchiarola — API’s senior vice president of policy, economics and regulatory affairs — told reporters on a call Thursday. “Yet, the Biden administration has failed to address current and future U.S. energy needs.”
“Announcing a program with zero new lease sales would be the exact wrong policy at the wrong time,” he said.
From Fox
Recall 90 days previously this post:
Interior Secretary Humiliated at Hearing Over Energy Leases
July 14, 2022 — bunkerville
Native American Secretary Haaland is the head of the Department of Interior. She controls the oil and gas leases on Federal land and she doesn’t plan on going anywhere with them regardless what the court says. The lease plan was due by law, and reinforced by court order to be due June 30, 2022. NOTE: This Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) back in May confronted Sec. of the Interior Deb Haaland about a statement the department released in the middle of a hearing.
‘My God… This Shuts It Down!’: Manchin Confronts Haaland With Statement From Her Dept On Drilling
WATCH: Sen. Manchin asks Interior Secretary Deb Haaland about memo cancelling oil drilling leases.
MANCHIN: “It looks like you all are going to shut everything down.”
HAALAND: “I am sorry. I am sitting in this hearing…”
MANCHIN: “My God.
Murkowski, a Republican, questioned Interior Secretary Deb Haaland about the department’s proposed five-year offshore drilling plan, which includes 10 lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and another in Cook Inlet. The Biden administration has made clear that it may not move forward with any of the proposed sales.
Murkowski raised concerns that the administration would not follow through on the lease sale, especially after the Interior Department canceled a different sale in Cook Inlet in May.
“I think there was a lot of concern in May when the department canceled lease sale 258 citing lack of industry interest, and I can say with real certainty that was not the case,” Murkowski said.
President Joe Biden’s Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said she was “not sure what to say” when fact checked on cancelled energy leases, during a Senate Appropriations committee hearing on President Joe Biden’s 2023 budget for the Department of the Interior on 7/13/2022.
More lies, spin, spin, spin. There never was any intention of giving out leases.
Biden Interior Sec Can’t Say If It’s Better To Produce Oil In US Than Venezuela: “Not An Economist”
Wander over to the post for more of this sheer nonsense and her ridiculous behavior here
Biden is following Obama’s old playbook with using the Monument Act to land grab as well as refuse leasing apparently. But this is a very different time.
Interior Dept. held in Contempt Over Oil Drilling Ban
February 3, 2011 — bunkerville
The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling after the Gulf oil spill held the Interior Department in contempt Wednesday, and ordered the federal agency to pay attorneys’ fees for several offshore oil companies.
After Feldman overturned the government’s moratorium in June, the agency issued a second nearly identical suspension.
“Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the reimposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium and in light of the national importance of this case, provide this court with clear and convincing evidence of the government’s contempt of this court’s preliminary injunction order,” he wrote
Is Biden just wanting to stick it to us? With the entire world in turmoil over energy one has to question his cognitive process and making such a decision now. He gets angry with the Saudi’s for what? Not bailing him out for the November election when we are up to our own eyeballs in resources? We got a glimpse of it when he was in Fort Myers. We heard the same thing regarding the Prosecutor in the Ukraine.
We should pay attention to it. Senility doesn’t always go quietly into that dark night.
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BUNKERVILLE | God, Guns and Guts Comrades! 
October 13, 2022 at 5:01 pm
So you thought you were going to have freedom of movement, health care, and food choices?Checkmate!
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October 13, 2022 at 4:01 pm
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October 13, 2022 at 8:20 pm
Thanks for the link.,
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October 13, 2022 at 11:32 am
There was a time when I was “continually amazed” that the people who report the news know less about their topic than most of their readers. This realization forced the question directed at the so-called journalists: Who made you the expert? It was a good question to ask. It made me (over time) into a skeptic. Skepticism is always a good thing.
So then, are these “journalists” college educated? Sure, in journalism. They don’t know anything more than I do about the law, finance, environment, religion, foreign relations, agriculture, or dwindling species … and yet, they act — and we treat them as if they are the world’s greatest authority.
My skepticism caused me to ask this additional question … what do politicians and legislators really know about the things that demand their attention? When you stop and think about this for a moment, it’s scary as hell. It means that members of Congress and the executive branch could place us all in extreme danger while we sit happily on our asses in traffic and place iPhone games. Baa Baa Baaaaaa.
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October 13, 2022 at 12:17 pm
There are a handful of Senators and Reps who have an understanding of an issue at hand. Especially the Docs who are in Congress. The Gov people? Not much and the media even less.
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October 13, 2022 at 9:21 am
For a couple of decades now I have tried to explain to folks just how insane our public lands ‘management’ really is. To prepare yourself to work in this arena I recommend you read a stack of Franz Kafka novels and then morph to Orwell for your linguistics training. Clear law morphs and twists through the regulatory processes and emerges an inverse, upside down image of the original. Anyone who has tried to thread the needle between Wilderness Acts and National Environmental Protection Acts and the various species and habitat protection acts knows what I mean. They trip each other at every turn and allow bureaucrats to create law from the ethers of delusion and confusion. Land long disturbed by mining, ranching, logging and (government installed) infrastructure are declared pristine by one act, mitigated by another and then round about mitigation efforts are declared invasions of the once not pristine pristine lands and are ripped out by heavy equipment transiting previously un-pristine pristine lands. This is no joke. It happens regularly.
I have literally stood on a slag heap from a hematite mine, arguing with park service buffoons about pushing a wheel barrow full of tools on an old mining road to get to a (state installed and owned) sheep drinker which was installed prior to a Wilderness Act declaration. Their argument centered on wilderness declarations ex post facto to the drinker and whether or not we should drive a back hoe across wilderness to rip out said drinker rather than do a minor repair. These are people with graduate degrees in environmental theology. And they are serious.
It is no wonder the entire issue is under strong delusion and those involved are blind to reality before their faces. WE live in confusing times. Pass the Motrin.
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October 13, 2022 at 9:52 am
You make your point.. The worse aspect is that often the EPA is in collusion with the Greenies.. They file legal action against a project… the government “offers” an out of court settlement meanwhile they were in collusion together.
What the government is doing or rather lack of doing regarding land management is criminal.
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October 13, 2022 at 10:16 am
Correct. If you look at the history of controlled burning in the Western states you find a track record of litigation to stop science based measures going all the way back to the early 1970’s. This includes routine easement maintenance for high tension power line easements. The Camp fire in Norther CA was a result of this. When resource managers cannot do controlled burns and brush cutting things get out of hand very quickly.
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October 13, 2022 at 10:27 am
Actually we need forrest fires. 100 years or so ago we didn’t have planes to put out fires. Most were let go..in return we got rid of old disease prone trees and made way for browse for animal life and vegetation. Now we have these red hot fires because of all the old diseased trees that are left standing. Appropriate logging is the key to successful land management as well as controlled burns.
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October 13, 2022 at 10:06 am
nrringlee
And yet these anti-american scum buckets have avoided morphing into the cockroaches that they are.
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October 13, 2022 at 11:33 am
Excellent, sir.
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October 13, 2022 at 4:59 pm
“environmental theology” – good one! And so right about controlled burns. One man who worked evaluating these forest conditions said the dry tinder is 6 feet deep in a lot of the northern California forests. I know a vendor whose pastures and woods abut the national forest in the area. I asked after their welfare after a horrific fire blazed unstoppable through the national forest. She told me “we clear our forest land, so the fire burned to the edge of the government’s land and was stopped at ours.” The indians knew this. Even in the east. They did regular burns in the fall to keep the forests open enough to provide better hunting. In 1650 one Dutch sea captain wrote in burning season that “the land can be smelt before it can be seen” as the smell of the fires was blown way out to sea.
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October 14, 2022 at 11:17 am
One of the most graphic examples of science based forestry management and the positive effects of the same can be found right here in redneck Arizona. For nearly four decades the White Mountain Apaches have beaten back federal bureaucrats and have used traditional methods (science based) to manage the magnificent pine forest lands of the White Mountains. As a result, devastating fires coming out of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest STOP at the border of the well managed first lands on the Apache reservations. Even the ASU PBS affiliate had to admit as much in an excellent documentary done on Arizona forest fire management. The tragedy is this, my friends: The Truth is Lost on the Progressive New Left. Environmental Theology trumps science.
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October 14, 2022 at 12:02 pm
Years ago in very rural PA it was standard to maintain fire lanes. Large swaths clear cut so that if a fire got going it was easier to control and to access. So yesterday.
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October 13, 2022 at 8:24 am
Manchin is the epitome of a phony POS feigning concern for tax payer dollars before giving in and kissing Biden’s ass signing on to give him and his amateur cabinet members millions-no billions of our money to pass around then expressing outrage at this destroyers actions, this time denying oil leases and confiscating more land for his land confiscation plan. There is no honor among thieves. Meanwhile the Senate will stay in democrat hands this November. Should the republicans take the house, in between running for another two years it will take them and the 44 aides of each representative all of two years to arrange their desktops while avoiding doing anything meaningful. It’s all over except for the other sides cheering.
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October 13, 2022 at 8:27 am
I think we will grab the Senate if the voting corruption isn’t too bad.
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October 13, 2022 at 8:29 am
If we do, we need to oust McConnell for his efforts with effective Democrat Murkowski.
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October 13, 2022 at 8:52 am
Bunk, hope springs eternal but between the generic foolish voters everywhere and the empathic loons in Pennsylvania the Senate will remain in democrat hands. It would take a wholesale awakening of voters understanding a democrat controlled Senate along with an impotent republican House pretty much ensures the end of our way of life.
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October 13, 2022 at 8:15 am
Being too busy with touch screens has its problems. I am definitely going to steal this bit of information and throw it into another oil-field-rant stew.
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October 13, 2022 at 8:25 am
So it wasn’t enough that Biden used his EPA and readings out of El Paso and Carlsbad to declare the Permian Basin a non-attainment zone? Do you have any freaking idea how many miles are between Midland and El Paso (305 miles) or Midland and Carlsbad (151 miles)? How many cities in the East are shut down by conditions 150+ or 300+ miles away?
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October 13, 2022 at 6:58 am
The government would never lie to us knowingly would it?
I mean, those Pfizer injections stop Covid, don’t they?
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October 13, 2022 at 7:22 am
Pure evil Ed…
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October 13, 2022 at 6:30 am
All those wildfires we see every year? Federal land. Millions and millions of acres. The government can’t take care of what it owns now. It doesn’t need even more land it will neglect.
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October 13, 2022 at 6:49 am
Two thirds of the 13 Western States are owned by the government. When is enough enough. We can see what the environmentalists are doing to the country.
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