Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was testifying before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday. It’s safe to say it did not go well. Joe Biden and his team have claimed that they are doing everything they can to relieve the rising prices of gas. That’s just not true. ... Biden canceled three oil and gas lease sales scheduled in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska.
The Energy Committee put Haaland on the spot: Biden claims that he’s doing everything he can, so what exactly is he doing? Haaland claimed they were working on a five-year plan. “By the end of June, we’ll take step number two in a three-step process. No decisions about leasing will be made until step number three.” Haaland said even after the program proposal comes out by June 30, it will take another 150 days to complete public comment and environmental review before lease sales can be held.
“I don’t think there is an actual deadline” to begin new offshore leasing, she told Sen. James Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma. “That’s the concern all of us have, actually that there’s no deadline,” Lankford responded. “That the proposal to talk about it is coming on the date it should be done, and that this is going to stretch out for the next 2-3 years of talking about it. We’re trying to figure out when’s the deadline to actually start leasing.”
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Date: 2022-05-23 02:43 pm (UTC)https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/05/19/manchin-exposes-insane-biden-plan-on-oil-leases-during-haaland-testimony-n567194
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was testifying before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday. It’s safe to say it did not go well.
Joe Biden and his team have claimed that they are doing everything they can to relieve the rising prices of gas. That’s just not true. ... Biden canceled three oil and gas lease sales scheduled in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska.
The Energy Committee put Haaland on the spot: Biden claims that he’s doing everything he can, so what exactly is he doing?
Haaland claimed they were working on a five-year plan.
“By the end of June, we’ll take step number two in a three-step process. No decisions about leasing will be made until step number three.”
Haaland said even after the program proposal comes out by June 30, it will take another 150 days to complete public comment and environmental review before lease sales can be held.
“I don’t think there is an actual deadline” to begin new offshore leasing, she told Sen. James Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma.
“That’s the concern all of us have, actually that there’s no deadline,” Lankford responded. “That the proposal to talk about it is coming on the date it should be done, and that this is going to stretch out for the next 2-3 years of talking about it. We’re trying to figure out when’s the deadline to actually start leasing.”