Federal land managers postponed until October in California oil and gas lease auction grounds, budget problems and low as well as environmental litigation charges.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently announced that it will postpone plans to auction later this month lease drilling Monterrey near home in the country's largest deposits of shale oil shale, nearly 1,300 acres of high-quality public land.
Another auction works in Colusa County, northwest of Sacramento about 75 km, are also on hold until the end of the fiscal year of approximately 2000 acres.
"Our primary task is to deal with the license to drill flight, rather than a new application has been Interior Minister El Sally told reporters Tuesday in Washington after the Senate hearings on the budget.
Decided to come after a federal judge ruled last month BLM in violation of a key environmental laws, the agency auction the Yu Yu lush Salinas Valley near the mining rights of other land, water, wild animals plants and air quality impact of a thorough review before. The ruling was in response to the Environmental Protection Agency said there was no review of the environmental risks associated with hydraulic fracturing and other types of oil and gas development in a lawsuit.
BLM decided to cancel plans to lease sales in California in 2013, a welcome sign, the agency finally admitted that its rubber stamp petroleum lease is no longer viable, "said Brendan Cummings, and non-profit organizations The lawyers of the Center for Biological Diversity, an auction prosecution.
Lease decided to postpone does not mean that will stop the existing lease, drilling, BLM spokesman David Christie said. He said the agency will focus limited resources in the implementation of the existing lease and other priorities, such as granting renewable energy permit.
"For all legal procedures, it requires a lot of staff time to collect information of litigation," Christie said. "So, it is clear that there is a certain effect, but it's not like it suppress us."
Jim Kenner, said the agency's state director, office of the BLM California have been talking about the possibility of at least suspended since March, and decided to postpone the auction late Friday, automatic budget cuts will be March 1.
, "Kenner said:" California is a bit from other countries, because we have so many areas, our country has so many law enforcement-oriented. "We are trying to understand how we can solve these work load decreases."
Amy Krause, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Land Management in Washington, said she believed that other countries will maintain their lease sales plan.
Industry officials said they are waiting to see what action will be taken in the fall BLM, and decide whether there will be a broader impact, oil and gas production.
"This is always a domestic energy resources are taken out of inventory, and can not bring to the attention of the market," said Tupper Hull, Western State Petroleum Association, whose members produced 80% of California's oil spokesman. "I hope the Bureau of Land Management will be through these issues, and be able to recover in the short term oil and gas lease.
Hydraulic fracturing, hydraulic fracturing has been quietly for decades in the oil-rich County, California, including Los Angeles, Kern, Monterey and Sacramento. The technique involves the rock injected into the high-pressure water, sand, or gravel mixed and chemical extraction of oil. The technology can also be used in other countries, the recovery of natural gas.
Environmentalists tend to worry about fracking may contaminate groundwater and air pollution. However, industry sources said, the practice has been safely used for decades.
 
 



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