The proposal would end a five-year moratorium on leasing California's federal public land to oil companies.
, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it had completed a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for new leases in California and announced that the lands would be opened for extraction activities.
The plan, which was first proposed in April, will allow extraction activities in the state's Central Valley and along the Central Coast and permit extraction activities near the Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. The proposal would end a five-year moratorium on leasing California's federal public land to oil companies, which was implemented in 2013, when a judge said that thefracking"Expanding extraction of dirty fossil fuels on our public lands threatens the health of our communities and the future of our climate," GaryChapter in Fresno, said in a Sierra Club post about the.
The plan"supports the balance between resource conservation, responsible energy development and economic opportunities consistent with the
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