Environmental groups are hopeful the Interior Department will pull the plug on any number of thousands of oil and gas leases issued during previous administrations after it completes a retroactive review of their underlying environmental assessments.
leases issued during previous administrations after it completes a retroactive review of their underlying environmental assessments.
Leases subject to scrutiny number 3,600 and total some 3,433,615 acres in seven states: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The BLM, which is taking comment on the supplemental environmental assessment through Dec. 27, said its pending decision on how to carry forward would decide"whether to affirm previous leasing decisions from the February 2015 to December 2020 lease sales for the subject leases," implying it may void leases.
"They're acknowledging that as part of the process, they're going to decide whether they're going to reaffirm these past leasing decisions or decide to take a different approach, which could include canceling them altogether," Nichols told the"It's pretty big. There's a lot on the table and a lot of public lands, a lot of public minerals tied up in this," Nichols said.
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