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Oil and Gas Leasing on Alaska's North Slope MAP

This map breaks down Alaska's North Slope by sold, deferred, active, and potential leases, as well as Barrow Native Lands and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Surface and Subsurface Lands.

Oil and Gas Drilling in America: Some Key Facts PDF

The oil and gas industry claims that the only way to address our country’s numerous energy issues is to open more public lands and waters to oil and natural gas drilling. What they don’t tell you is that drilling in America is already occurring at an astonishing pace and in a bewildering number of places. The facts below show that “more drilling” won’t solve America’s energy problems.

The Facts: Oil and Gas Drilling in America PDF

The oil and gas industry claims that the only way to address our country’s numerous energy issues is to open more public lands and waters to oil and natural gas drilling. What they don’t tell you is that drilling in America is already occurring at an astonishing pace and in a bewildering number of places. The facts below show that “more drilling” won’t solve America’s energy problems.

The Facts: New Data Shows Over 29,000,000 Acres of Idle Federal Oil and Gas Leases PDF

Data Also Shows Thousands of Idle but Approved Federal Drilling Permits Although the oil and gas industry and their allies have criticized Obama Administration policies for allegedly restricting the industry’s access to federal lands for drilling, new information released by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in January, 2011 indicates that the oil and gas industry controls 41,186,158 acres of federal onshore lands, but has drilling operations on just 12,205,416 acres of these leases.

Rahall CLEAR Act Support Letter PDF

On June 24, 2010, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall introduced the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act (CLEAR Act).  The Wilderness Society President Bill Meadows sent a letter to the Chairman supporting the legislation.

Group letter to Senate regarding drilling PDF

In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig accident – which could become the largest ecological disaster in history – a coalition of environmental organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Senate, urging them to pursue clean energy instead of the destructive and dangerous practices of oil and gas drilling.

Needed policy reforms not hindering natural gas production PDF

This Science and Policy Brief examines necessary policy reforms for natural gas production through these key points:

BLM Data Shows Vast Federal Acreage Under Oil & Gas Leases That Are Not Developed PDF

Data recently released by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) solidly refutes industry allegations that the Obama Administration somehow has not made enough federal lands available for drilling and energy development. As data shows, industry controls tens of millions of acres of federal lands that have not been developed or not developed fully.

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