FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 21, 2021
DENVER—The Bureau of Land Management just announced that it will not hold oil and gas lease sales for the 2nd quarter of 2021. The Center for Western Priorities released the following statement from Policy Director Jesse Prentice-Dunn:
“Canceling these oil and gas lease sales is a small but vital step as the Interior Department conducts its top-to-bottom review of America’s rigged oil and gas leasing system. Despite the crocodile tears the oil industry is likely to shed today, their own CEOs admit they are sitting on years worth of unused leases and drilling permits right now, and this delay will have no effect on their bottom line.”