This week, the Department of Interior lauded the administration's efforts to increase oil and gas
leases on federal lands. Somehow they failed to mention that last year
they set records for hardly issuing any leases at all. The omission
wasn't lost on careful observers.
The Obama administration now claims that leasing on public lands has increased 20 percent in the year 2011, and Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes heralded the news by saying, "We intend to continue to build on that success [from 2011] this year."
[Read Thomas Pyle on how the government failed in energy policy in 2011]
Of course, the facts paint a much different picture than the administration's propaganda. In 2010, the Obama administration issued a historically low number of leases. While a 20 percent increase from a lower-than-average number is a good thing in any event, the idea that the Obama administration expects praise for hamstringing American energy less last year should receive a lukewarm response.
Furthermore, as the data from the Bureau of Land Management shows below, total onshore leases have gone down significantly under the current administration. In fact, the number of leases issued in 2010 were at the lowest level since the bureau started publishing the data:
Read more: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/on-energy/2012/01/13/obama-administration-exaggerates-success-in-oil-and-gas-leases
The Obama administration now claims that leasing on public lands has increased 20 percent in the year 2011, and Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes heralded the news by saying, "We intend to continue to build on that success [from 2011] this year."
[Read Thomas Pyle on how the government failed in energy policy in 2011]
Of course, the facts paint a much different picture than the administration's propaganda. In 2010, the Obama administration issued a historically low number of leases. While a 20 percent increase from a lower-than-average number is a good thing in any event, the idea that the Obama administration expects praise for hamstringing American energy less last year should receive a lukewarm response.
Furthermore, as the data from the Bureau of Land Management shows below, total onshore leases have gone down significantly under the current administration. In fact, the number of leases issued in 2010 were at the lowest level since the bureau started publishing the data:
Read more: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/on-energy/2012/01/13/obama-administration-exaggerates-success-in-oil-and-gas-leases
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