Oil and Gas Journal is reporting:
Oil and gas producers will have another 60 days to comment on the US
Bureau of Land Management’s latest proposed regulations for hydraulic
fracturing operations on onshore public lands, US Interior Secretary
Sally Jewell announced.
“Thousands of comments have been made on the proposed hydraulic
fracturing rule,” she told the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee. “Many which responded to the original proposal led us to
revise it and issue a second one. I’m announcing now that we’re going to
give people an extra 60 days to comment on the latest proposal.”
The secretary said improving federal oil and gas permit application
processing remains a top priority, but progress will be limited because
of ongoing federal budget sequestration impacts.
“We want to bring the lessons we learned offshore onshore,” Jewell
said. “There’s a need to streamline the permitting process. These
formations cross state lines. Unfortunately, sequestration is forcing us
to limit activity in offices where there’s the greatest need. We are
trying to address this.”
Sequestration also is preventing DOI from sharing onshore federal oil
and gas revenue with states where such activity is located, she
continued. “We appreciate the importance of this to the states, but we
are required to comply with the law,” she said.
The tea leaves are swirling.
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