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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management raised $54,254.52 this week through a series of seven online auctions totaling a little more than 4,133 acres of federal oil and gas property in Kern County.
Half a dozen oil companies participated Thursday in what were the first such sales in California since 2012. The BLM had predicted the parcels would hold no more than 10 new wells in all.
The sales were vigorously opposed by environmental activists who said leasing out the properties could lead to pollution. They also argued online auctions stifle public competition and fast-tracks oilfield activity.
The leases sold Thursday carry a primary term of 10 years, during which time the buyers must pay the government royalties of 12.5 percent on any petroleum they produce. Royalty proceeds get roughly divided between the state of California and the U.S. Treasury.
It has been a year of considerable challenges but ultimately a rewarding year with the major milestone being the mine permitting of our CS Pozzolan-Perlite Project in Nevada, USA. After many delays and frustrations, the Environmental Assessment for the project was completed in July 2020 and, after a public comment period, a Finding of No Significant Impact was handed down by the chief regulator, the US Bureau of Land Management. This paved the way for the issue of the mine permit Decision of Record and the mine Reclamation Permit, and the process plant Air Quality Control Permit was awarded shortly thereafter.
The Carrizo Plain National Monument in California’s Kern County. (Photo via Antandrus / Wikipedia)
(CN) The Trump administration opened bidding for gas and oil drilling leases on California public land Thursday, putting 4,000 acres of resources up for sale in the first auction of its kind in eight years.
President Donald Trump has long planned to open the Golden State’s public lands and federal mineral estates to oil drilling and fracking operations, and his administration hatched designs for over 1.7 million acres of such territory in the Central Valley.
This past August, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management signaled an impending sale when it announced it would open bidding on federal lands in Kern County.
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