• blazera
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    21 year ago

    We are talking about the bill that issued millions of acres in new oil and gas leasing. Im fully expecting emissions to continue increasing

    • TigrisMorte
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      01 year ago

      No, the bill did not do that. Oil leases do not require Congress pass a bill and are completely unrelated.

        • TigrisMorte
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          01 year ago

          And thus proving my statement. Prompted does not mean legislated. Yes, to appease Manchin they had to line his pockets. It is sad but once more you prove that your assumptions are invalid.

          • blazera
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            21 year ago

            Man you really just looked at the link text

            “This is the first onshore oil and gas lease sale since the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act, which required that significant federal oil and gas lease sales take place”

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              100% false. It was agreed to for Manchin’s Vote. It had nothing to do with it otherwise. You are desperate to condemn what you don’t remotely understand. Your assumptions are 100% invalid and the whine you have is that to get the benefit, Manchin had to get paid off, but you target the Bill and pretend that the agreement to make the leases was the point.
              It was required to get Manchin’s Vote. The Inflation Reduction Act had nothing in it requiring that to occur. It was a condition to get it passed, not remotely the intent nor any part of it as you claim.

              What the bill required was that specific lease sales which were already filed no longer be delayed or blocked, not that new leases take place.

              Here is the actual wording: (Sec. 50264) Interior must accept the highest bid for oil and gas leases under the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 257 within 30 days of the act’s enactment. It must also conduct (1) Lease Sale 258 by the end of 2022, (2) Lease Sale 259 by March 31, 2023, and (3) Lease Sale 261 no later than the end of the FY2023.

              (Sec. 50265) The act limits Interior’s authority to issue leases and rights-of-way to develop wind or solar energy on onshore or offshore land for 10 years. Interior may grant such rights-of-way and leases if it offers a certain amount of land for oil and gas leases and holds oil and gas lease sales.

              Lease Sale 257, 258, and 259 were required to take place as a result of the Bill but were not created by it. At no point does the Bill create a single new lease, it required existing lease sales occur.

              • blazera
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                21 year ago

                here is literally the full text of the bill https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5376/text/pl

                Section 50264 outlines the 4 new oil and gas lease sales. Lease 257 for 1.7 million acres
                Lease 258 for 958 thousand acres
                Lease 259 for 1.6 million acres
                and Lease 261 for an astounding 67 million acres of land, all exclusively for fossil fuel extraction

                these are not optional, these are mandated sales the Secretary of the Interior must comply with “the Secretary shall, without modification
                or delay–(A) accept the highest valid bid for each tract or
                bidding unit of Lease Sale 257 for which a valid bid was
                received on November 17, 2021; and
                (B) provide the appropriate lease form to the
                winning bidder to execute and return.”

                My statement “We are talking about the bill that issued millions of acres in new oil and gas leasing.” I have cited the source bill and given all the text outlining exactly my claim. Legislated, meaning written into legislation and passing congress and signed into law by the president. There’s no room for interpretation here.

                • TigrisMorte
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                  01 year ago

                  Yup, details of the lease, which was already waiting for action but was being delayed and Manchin wanted to get moved forward. It was well documented at the time the negotiations were going on. Well done. you are almost there.

                  • blazera
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                    21 year ago

                    the…4 leases. 2 of which were barred by Biden, and 2 brand new leases. You’re not reading what Im writing anymore.