The purpose of the Mineral Leasing Act is to promote the mining of coal on the public domain.
Instead of approving oil and gas permits on a timely basis, the Secretary has doubled the length of the permitting process.
I would expect you and your Department to fully defend the lawsuits, defending your own action here.
I would strongly urge you to withdraw this disastrous and illegal proposal.
I am sad to say that Secretary Haaland has failed the people of Wyoming.
According to the Bureau of Land Management's official data--your Department--the time it takes to get an oil and gas permit has actually dou...
will you commit to resuming oil and gas lease sales each and every quarter going forward, as required by law?
I don't think many people who are listening here believe that it's the companies who need these permits who are slow-walking the information...
The Secretary is also attacking multiple use of the land. Multiple use is a decades-old, bedrock principle of federal land management.
So my question is, why are you slow-walking permits and then intentionally misleading Congress and the public when you are caught?
You haven't been following the law.
In Wyoming, water sustains everything that we do. Our ranchers and farmers produce food for all Americans.
This illegal proposal--and it is illegal and it does not follow the law--would make non-use of lands a competing use.
The Secretary should be following the law.
Instead of holding quarterly oil and gas lease sales, the Secretary has held only one lease sale in two years.
