by Jim Winchester, IPANM Executive Director | Oct 5, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Anti-Industry Politics, Drilling & Leasing, Federal Issues, ISSUES, News (Public Access), Rules & Regulations
Western Energy Alliance (October 5, 2021) – The budget reconciliation bill before Congress would, if passed with all the public lands provisions, drive oil and natural gas producers off federal lands in Colorado and across the West to other areas of the country...
by Kacy Brown, IPANM Operations Director | Oct 1, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Anti-Industry Politics, Cultural Properties, Drilling & Leasing, Federal Issues, ISSUES, News (Public Access), Northwest Region, Setbacks, State Issues
The Washington Times (September 30, 2021) – The 24th Navajo Nation Council has come out against President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social welfare and climate change bill because it bans new drilling outside Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New...
by Jim Winchester, IPANM Executive Director | Sep 30, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Drilling & Leasing, Federal Issues, ISSUES, News (Public Access), Rules & Regulations
Rueters (September 30, 2021) – The United States will hold an auction for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Nov. 17 to comply with a court order to resume oil and gas lease sales, the Biden administration said on Thursday. The auction of some 80 million...
by Jim Winchester, IPANM Executive Director | May 18, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Anti-Industry Politics, Drilling & Leasing, Federal Issues, News (Public Access), Rules & Regulations, Southeast Region, State Issues
Hobbs News-Sun (May 18, 2021) – Lea County officials want New Mexico, the nation’s third highest oil production state, to join other states fighting President Joe Biden’s moratorium on federal oil leases. Lea County is the nation’s No. 1 oil producer among...
by Kacy Brown, IPANM Operations Director | May 7, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Drilling & Leasing, ISSUES, News (Public Access), Royalties, Rules & Regulations
Roll Call (May 6, 2021) – A House panel voted a bill out of committee Wednesday that would raise the royalty fees oil and gas companies pay to operate on federal land. Petroleum and natural gas companies pay a 12.5 percent fee to the treasury on their revenue...
by Kacy Brown, IPANM Operations Director | Apr 29, 2021 | A FEATURED STORY, Anti-Industry Politics, Drilling & Leasing, Federal Issues, Legislative, News (Public Access), State Issues
Associated Press (April 23, 2021) – The U.S. Interior Department is cancelling oil and gas lease sales from public lands through June amid an ongoing review of how the program contributes to climate change, officials said Wednesday. The action does not affect...
