By Chuck Ross
A Native American tribe in Utah said a Biden administration order blocking new permits to drill for oil and gas on federal lands is a “direct attack” on its economy and sovereignty.
The Ute Indian Tribe is seeking a waiver from Order 3395, which Scott de la Vega, the acting secretary of the interior, implemented on Jan. 21.
The order pauses the issuance of new permits for oil and gas drilling on federal lands for 60 days. The order does not impact ongoing drilling, but President Joe Biden has said that he wants to ban drilling and fracking on all federal lands as part of a broader effort to fight climate change.
Biden has also said that he is open to banning fracking altogether, even on private land.
New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland, who Biden has nominated to lead the Department of the Interior, has also said she is “wholeheartedly against fracking and drilling on public lands.”
While some Native tribes oppose energy drilling on their lands, the Ute tribe says that drilling permits are vital to its economy.
“Your order is a direct attack on our economy, sovereignty, and our right to self-determination. Indian lands are not federal public lands,” Luke Duncan, the chairman of the Ute Indian Tribe Business Committee, wrote to de la Vega on Thursday.
“Any action on our lands and interests can only be taken after effective tribal consultation.”
The Ute Indian Tribe does not mince words in their response to Interior’s order restricting federal energy development:
“Your order is a direct attack on our economy, sovereignty, and our right to self-determination.” pic.twitter.com/U5MiZCMx4n
— Megan Barnett Bloomgren (@MeganBloomgren) January 22, 2021
According to Reuters, the tribe produces around 45,000 barrels of oil and 900 million cubic feet of natural gas a day through drilling in the Uintah basin.
In another executive order, Biden suspended construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada to the U.S.
Energy companies argue that bans on federal drilling and the Keystone pipeline will make the U.S. more dependent on foreign oil and gas and cause losses of hundreds of thousands of American jobs.
Officials in states like New Mexico worry that a permanent ban on drilling on federal lands will severely hurt their economies.
“Eliminating drilling on public lands will cost thousands of New Mexicans their jobs and destroy what’s left of our state’s economy,” Dale Janway, the mayor of Carlsbad, New Mexico, told The Associated Press on Friday.
“Environmental efforts should be fair and well-researched, not knee-jerk mandates that just hurt an already impoverished state.”
Half of all drilling in New Mexico is conducted on federal lands. State officials have used royalties from oil and gas production to beef up funding for education and other public programs.
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Biden is just an uninspiring functionary, sitting at his desk with mask, trying to look serious/presidential.
Every day, the invisible Biden handlers are telling Biden to “get out his pen” to sign executive orders to:
1) Open the borders to let in the illiterate, unskilled illegals to get more Dem/Prog votes
2) Halt the Keystone XL pipeline
3) Join Paris
4) Stop drilling for oil and gas on federal lands in Utah and many other states; Biden creating shortages to benefit wind and solar.
Look outside, no wind and no sun to-day.
5) Whatever else they can dream up to “undo/erase Trump”.
In the evening, Biden may tell his admiring wife, over a sumptuous dinner, he is very tired, because he has been:
1) Very busy changing the US and the world
2) Fighting climate change, 24/7, already for ONE WHOLE WEEK
The whole charade is off-the-charts rediculous.
Do the invisible Biden handlers really believe the WORLD will use less oil, because of halting Keystone XL?
FOUR YEARS OF THIS FARCE?
Here are some numbers that should wake up anybody.
WORLD AND US PRIMARY ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND CAPITAL COST
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/world-total-energy-consumption
World energy consumption is projected to increase to 736 quads in 2040 from 575 quads in 2015, an increase of 28%, according to the latest from the US Energy Information Administration, EIA.
See URL and click on PPT to access data, click on to page 4 of PowerPoint
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/
Most of this growth is expected to come from countries that are not in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, and especially from countries where demand is driven by strong economic growth, particularly in Asia.
Non-OECD Asia, which includes China and India, accounted for more than 60% of the world’s total increase in energy consumption from 2015 through 2040.
PARIS AGREEMENTS
China, India, and other developing Asian countries, and Africa, and Middle and South America need to use low-cost energy, such as coal, to be competitive.
They would not have signed up for “Paris”, if they had not been allowed to be more or less exempt from the Paris agreements
Obama agreed to commit the US to the Paris agreements, i.e., be subject to its financial and other obligations for decades.
However, he never submitted the commitment to the US Senate for ratification, as required by the US Constitution.
Trump rescinded the commitment. It became effective 3 years later, one day after the US presidential elections on November 3, 2020.
If the US had not left “Paris”, a UN Council likely would have determined a level of renewable energy, RE, spending, say $500 billion/y, for distributing to various poorer countries by UN bureaucrats.
The Council would have assessed OECD members, likely in proportion to their GDPs.
The US and Europe would have been assessed at 100 to 150 billion dollars/y each.
The non-OECD countries likely would continue to be more or less exempt from paying for the Paris agreements.
SUMMARY OF CAPITAL EXPENDITURES, CAPEX
The analysis includes two scenarios: 1) 50% RE by 2050, and 2) 100% RE by 2050.
The CAPEX values exclude a great many items related to transforming the world economy to a low-carbon mode. See next section.
50% RE by 2050
World CAPEX for RE were $2,652.2 billion for 2010-2019, 10 years
World CAPEX for RE were $282.2 billion in 2019.
World CAPEX for RE would be $24,781 billion for 2019 – 2050, 32 years; compound growth 5.76%/y
US CAPEX for RE were $494.5 billion for 2010 – 2019, 10 years.
US CAPEX for RE were $59 billion in 2019.
US CAPEX for RE would be $7,233 billion for 2019 – 2050, 32 years; compound growth 8.81%/y
100% RE by 2050
World CAPEX for RE were $2,652.2 billion for 2010-2019, 10 years
World CAPEX for RE were $282.2 billion in 2019.
World CAPEX for RE would be $60,987 billion for 2019 – 2050, 32 years; compound growth 10.08%/y
US CAPEX for RE were $494.5 billion for 2010 – 2019, 10 years.
US CAPEX for RE were $59 billion in 2019.
US CAPEX for RE would be $16,988 billion for 2019 – 2050, 32 years; compound growth 13.42%/y
Xiden* , the first Fraud Resident, wasn’t thinking of the wildlife when
revoking the Keystone and Arctic Refuge permits. It was more likely
to repay one of his front men, Buffet’s trains will continue transporting
the Crude/Gas on his much more dangerous railway increasing the cost
3 fold over that of the modern safe pipeline…
Putting people out of work and America out of the energy game is the new
building back better protocol… It’s no wonder the idiot and thief’s ratings
are falling like a rock (68 percent approval last week, 63 at the beginning of this week…. Look for the regime to ban posting approval ratings very soon…
BRING THE TROOPS HOME