The Trump administration is proposing the sale of oil leases on the Pacific coast

The Trump Administration on Thursday announced plans to open federal waters in the Pacific Ocean to new leases in the 40s.

The Draft Plan released by the US Department of the Interior confirms rumors that have been circulating for weeks. This proposal will see 34 offshore hectares of 1.27 hectares on the outer continental shelf by 2031, including six areas on the Pacific coast, the coast of Alaska and seven in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Secretary of the Interior Doug Buggum announced the plan with the order entitled “Unloseashing American Offshore Energy the management of the necessary measures of the sea to end the small Ocean Energy program and leasing by 2029, the lowest amount ever in the Gulf of Mexico.

“The biden administration hit the brakes on offshore oil and gas supplies and crippled the long-term pipeline of American offshore production,” Burgum said in a statement. “By moving forward with the development of a strong, governing governing plan, we ensure that the offshore industry of Offshore of Afstshore remains strong, our workers remain employed, and our nation remains employed, and our nation remains in power for decades to come.”

California has 7 oil platforms and nearly a dozen offshore oil platforms, but most are considered to be at the end of their productive lives. The state has not seen a new oil lease in federal waters since 1984, largely due to the eviction of residents following the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill.

“This draft is a huge oil boom,” said Joseph Gordon, Campaign Manager with non-profit ocean conservation organization Oanea. “The last thing America needs right now is a massive increase in offshore driving that could clog our shores with a catastrophic oil spill.”

This proposal would be a “betrayal of bipartisan voices – including American lawmakers, business leaders, and urban residents – who are against coastal driving,” notes that the coastal economy is dependent on clean ocean water.

Oil companies have expressed interest in the region. Authorities with Independent Petroleum Assn. American has previously said that all areas of the outer continental shelf should be explored through the Federal and State oil lease program.

“There is no position that should be taken off the table before it is fully considered,” IPAA’s police officer said in a statement last week.

The American Petroleum Institute and other leading oil and gas groups said in a June letter that they support exploring all areas of the outer shelf, especially because “continuous exploration and driving will be necessary” to ensure the US Energy wants to be 2050.

According to Boehm, the Pacific region of Washington, Oregon and California has 200 million barrels of proven financial resources and more than a billion barrels of technical wells – most of which are in southern California.

(Undiscovered resources are estimates based on geology, surveys and modeling and have never been proven by drilling. Estimates do not include economic considerations, such as being too deep.)

Alaska has about 25 billion barrels and the Gulf of Mexico has about 30 barrels of undiscovered funds, according to technology, according to Boem.

“The Gulf is still a baby,” said Clark Williams-Derry, an energy analyst with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. He didn’t believe the oil companies “worked hard when they entered Southern California, because the resources themselves are limited and because the politics are challenging.”

Indeed, the state may have fought a war, and Gov.

Experts say California created laws and regulations that could be challenging for an oil company hoping to take advantage of the lease, the California Envisionix Act, the California Environmental Act, the California Environmental Act that will protect or bring new Federal offshore production.

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Sable officials did not respond to a request to comment on whether the company would pursue a new lease in the Pacific following the Trump Administration’s proposal.

The interior ministry said it will consider public input before finalizing the plan and individual rental sales. A 60-day public comment period will begin when the proposal is published in the Redral Register on Monday.

Thursday’s announcement follows last month’s news that the Department of the Interior will open all of Alaska’s coastal plain to wild lands for oil and gas leasing.

However, the administration also began planning strategies to drive the Atlantic Ocean after finding the leaders of the Republican Coastal Soast.