Save the whales? More like kill US energy production
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The Biden administration is colluding with environmental groups to restrict offshore energy production, limiting access to oil and natural gas produced offshore in the U.S.
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), a part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, will hold Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261 next month, offering approximately 13,620 blocks on 73.4 million acres on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf to energy companies for oil and natural gas development.
However, as a result of a recently settled lawsuit supposedly filed to protect Rice’s whales, about 11 million acres within the sale area will be made off limits for energy production.