Administration’s “EPCA” Report Shows Most Federal O&G Already Available
Despite industry and earlier Bush Administration claims that too much federal land in the Rocky Mountain West is unavailable for energy development, the administration’s own “EPCA” report, issued in January 2003, indicates that the opposite is true – that is, most of the federal oil and gas resources in this environmentally sensitive region are currently available for leasing and development.
>> See EPCA report at http://www.doi.gov/epca/
EIA (2004): Energy Bill Won’t Reduce Consumption or Reliance on Imports
The federal energy bill (H.R. 6), which will cost taxpayers at least $31 billion, will have negligible impacts on energy consumption and production and will fail to reduce natural gas and electricity prices over the next 20 years according to a new report by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
>> Read U.S. PIRG fact sheet (“Budget-Busting Energy Bill Fails to Reduce Energy Consumption…”) at http://newenergyfuture.com/newenergy.asp?id2=11128
EIA (2001): Increasing Access and Eliminating Lease Stipulations Will Not Increase Production Nor Decrease Prices Significantly
The EIA results illustrate that opening up more public land to drilling will not significantly reduce gas prices for consumers because undiscovered gas in the Rockies is more expensive to extract than gas in or near proven gas reserves.
>> See report at http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/FTPROOT/service/sroiaf(2001)06.pdf
EIA (2004): Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge Would Not Impact on World Oil Prices
The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) has repeatedly confirmed that drilling in the Refuge would have a negligible affect, if any, on world oil production or prices. In its March 2004 report: “Analysis of Oil and Gas Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge” (see page 8).
>> See report at http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/ogp/pdf/sroiaf(2004)04.pdf
Zogby Poll: Admin’s Ties To Oil Industry Are Hurting Consumers On Gas Prices
Most likely voters say the Bush Administration’s close ties to the oil industry are hurting consumers. By nearly a 5 to1 margin, 57% - 12%, voters said that the Administration’s close ties to the oil industry were hurting, rather than helping, consumers.
>> See poll at http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=827
Thousands of Rocky Mountain Drilling Permits Going Unused
With the oil and gas industry clamoring for the Bureau of Land Management to speed up the processing and issuance of drilling permits, an analysis by The Wilderness Society reveals that more than 6,000 drilling permits have not been used over the past decade.
>> See report at http://www.wilderness.org/NewsRoom/Release/20040415.cfm (report available at this link in PDF format)
Report Documents Bush Administration's Land-Management Shift
Although federal law requires that the public lands be managed to protect a host of environmental values, as well as to provide opportunities for commercial exploitation of commodity resources, a series of administrative decisions beginning within the first months of the Bush Administration have made oil and gas development the dominant use of the public lands managed by the BLM.
>> See report at http://www.wilderness.org/Library/Documents/AbuseOfTrust.cfm
