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    Home » Blog » House Bars Presidents From Banning Fracking, Blocks Oil and Gas Royalty Hikes—Again

    House Bars Presidents From Banning Fracking, Blocks Oil and Gas Royalty Hikes—Again

    March 21, 2024Updated:March 21, 2024 Politics No Comments
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    Chamber’s GOP officials start ‘ Energy Week ‘ with costs recycled from adopted 2023 bus always submitted to the Senate, drawing derision from Democrats.

    The House has adopted the first two measures in a six- expenses package to recover the United States ‘ “energy dominance” and move again President Joe Biden’s “green energy policies” that Republicans say enhance energy costs and profit adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party, Russia, and Iran.

    On March 20, lawmakers passed legislation to stop presidents from enacting oil/gas rules and price increases on federal public land covered by the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and to prevent presidents from imposing moratoriums on mechanical fracturing—fracking without Parliamentary acceptance.

    The fracking moratorium ban, House Resolution 1121 ( HR 1121 ), the Protecting American Energy Production Act, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Duncan ( R- S. C. ), was approved in a 229- 188 vote with 15 Democrats saying’ aye.’
    HR 6009, the Restoring American Energy Dominance Act, filed by Rep. Lauren Boebert ( R- Colo. ), which directs the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM) to withdraw a rule boosting statewide lease bonds from$ 10, 000 to$ 150, 000 and from$ 25, 000 to$ 500, 000, while increasing royalty rates from 12.5 percent to 16.67 percent, moved in a 216- 200 tally with three Democrats joining Republicans.

    Liberals attempted to push both steps back to the House Natural Resources Committee, with HR 1121 staying on the court for deployment in a 213- 202 ballot and HR 6099 staying on the floor voting in a 211- 204 count.

    The Lower Energy Costs Act, which was approved by the room on March 30, 2023, was not submitted to the Senate, but both bills and the four that will follow will be debated and adopted in House boards last year.

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    Talking points from both sides of the aisle were made in a series of repetitions with heavy doses of political rhetoric that took up more than three hours of floor discussion over the course of five evening hours.

    ” We’re passing sections of HR 1—the Polluters over People Act—for a second time because it’s all show”, Rep. Sydney Kamlager ( D- Calif. ) said. House Republicans continue to pass the exact outdated legislation while passing the same communication that is outdated, which the American people are aware of.

    Democrats want to boycott drilling, right?

    Democrats argued that states control fracking, and that a president, including President Biden, has not imposed a moratorium on it, but that it may prevent the government from responding immediately to an oilfield emergency.

    ” This extraordinary regulations… is nothing more than a made- up option in search of a problem”, Rep. Mike Levin ( D- Calif. ) said. To be clear, the senator has not indicated that he will ban drilling, but HR 1121 may forbid him from always, always, from doing so despite the risks it poses.

    Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn. ) claimed that HR 1121 may assure state legislation remained in place. He added that Democrat administrations, including those under President Barak Obama, have attempted to impose restrictions on shale but were stymied by court decisions that determined the federal government was overreaching its regulatory authority.

    ” The fact is, this president, on the campaign trail said, and I quote,’ No new fracking,’ end quote”, he said. You have to pay attention to Biden’s words and actions, as he’s known from what he’s done in his first three or four years in office. He’s done it on mining. He stated that we would concentrate on domestic mining for the minerals we needed. Once he became president, he changed his tune.

    ” After three years of disastrous energy policies by this president,” Mr. Stauber continued”, we know we cannot take him for his word, which is why exactly this bill is necessary.”

    But it’s not just Mr. Biden, he said”. Democrats want to ban fracking, “he said, citing Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. Bernie Sanders ( I- Vt. ), Transpiration Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland expressing desires to ban fracking.

    The White House described the proposed fracking moratorium as” a red herring” in a March 18 statement from the White House, noting that states already have discretion over the use of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas development on state and private lands.

    President Joe Biden signs several executive orders relating to climate change, including one that places a pause on new oil and natural gas leases on public land in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on January 27, 2021. Vice President Kamala Harris ( 2- L) and special presidential envoy for climate change John Kerry ( L ) watch as President Obama signs several executive orders directing a pause on new oil and natural gas leases on public land. ( Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images )
    President Joe Biden signs several executive orders relating to climate change, including one that places a pause on new oil and natural gas leases on public land in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on January 27, 2021. Vice President Kamala Harris ( 2- L) and special presidential envoy for climate change John Kerry ( L ) watch as President Obama signs several executive orders directing a pause on new oil and natural gas leases on public land. ( Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images )

    BLM Rules Would Hurt Small Businesses

    The Restoring American Energy Dominance Act, HR 6009, would forbid BLM from enacting a similar rule that would raise bonding standards and royalty rates, which have n’t increased since the 1920s.

    According to Mr. Stauber, the bill will “restore” nationwide bond capabilities for energy companies that the Biden administration wants to restrict to state by state bonds.

    The BLM claims that this action is necessary to avoid having to clean up orphaned wells. One would think there’s an orphan well crisis on BLM lands, given the significant cost increases, however, the opposite is true, “he said”. According to the Department of the Interior, there are only 30 sites]with ] 37 orphan wells “on the 245 million acres of public lands across 12 states that the BLM manages.

    ” Their proposed regulations would also be extremely harmful to small business,” Mr. Stauber said, citing Wyoming Oil &amp, Gas Conservation Commission Supervisor Tom Kropatsch, who said the new bonding requirements” would hurt hundreds of small businesses “in the state”, resulting in lost royalties, taxes and other revenues to local and state government, and likely will create orphan wells, not protect against them.”

    ” The impacts will be the same in energy- producing regions nationwide, “he said.

    Additionally, the White House said in a statement on March 18 that HR 6009 “would unnecessarily interfere with the rule-making process and would prevent the BLM from responsibly managing its federal oil and gas program on behalf of the American people.”

    The White House said royalty rates have n’t increased in a century, BLM oil/gas regulations have n’t been updated since 1988, and” still contain fiscal terms that were set more than 70 years ago.”

    According to the statement,” current regulations and royalty rates have failed to provide a fair return for oil and gas production on federal lands to the American people, and they have increased the risk that American taxpayers will have to pay cleanup costs when businesses go bankrupt.”

    Other measures to be heard in the coming days is HR 1023, filed by Rep. Gary Palmer ( R- Ala. ), which would repeal the Clean Air Act’s Section 134 greenhouse gas reduction fund, a concurrent resolution sponsored by Rep. Ryan Zinke ( R- Mont. )” expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy”, HR 987, filed by Rep. Dan Newhouse ( R- Wash. )” denouncing the harmful, anti- American energy policies of the Biden administration”, HR 7023, carried by Rep. David Rouzer ( R- N. C. ), to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act’s Section 404″ to codify regulatory provisions relating to nationwide permits for dredged or fill material.”
    Workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation outside Rifle, Colo., on March 29, 2013. ( Brennan Linsley/AP Photo )
    Workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation outside Rifle, Colo., on March 29, 2013. ( Brennan Linsley/AP Photo )

    A Recycled” Energy Week”

    The measures were presented at the Greenbrier Inn in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, last week during the Republican-controlled three-day Issues Conference. Jim Justice, who is vying for retiring Sen. Joe Manchin’s ( D- W. V. ) seat against Rep. Alex Mooney ( R- W. V. ) in a May 14 primary—as part of House GOP leadership’s” Energy Week.”

    ” This week, House Republicans will pass the legislation promoting American energy independence and opposing Biden’s anti- energy agenda, there’s no other way to describe it,” House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson ( R- La. ) before the floor proceedings even began.

    House Republicans spearheaded a similar” Energy Week” last year by releasing a sweeping omnibus package that would become HR 1 on March 21, 2023 during the final day of a three-day retreat at Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes in Orlando attended by about 150 GOP lawmakers.

    In a partisan vote of 225 to 204, HR 1 was approved by the House and sent to the Senate, where Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N. ) introduced it nine days later. Y. ) said”, It was dead on arrival.”

    But it never arrived.

    And some of the 20- plus 2023 individual bills incorporated into HR 1 are being rehashed for 2024 hearings and adoptions.

    Democrats mocked Republicans ‘ recycled” Energy Week “bills, with Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon ( D- Pa. ) claiming the” feckless Republican majority “has achieved little other than stirring up rancor, especially among themselves, while adopting only 27 bills in 2023 and only half the appropriations bills that constitute the Fiscal Year 2024 federal budget, which began Oct. 1.

    The” Energy Week “bills are” a partisan package of pro- polluter energy and environmental bills,” she said”. The House considered half of these bills last year, and the other half are toothless resolutions.

    ” This majority has done nothing”, Ms. Scanlon said. ” They’ve squandered their majority, they’ve squandered the country’s time and taxpayer dollars, and they have nothing to show for it”.

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