By Brendan LaChance on February 26, 2021
CASPER, Wyo. Welcome to Oil City Speaks! Oil City News is all about offering coverage of the people, places and events that shape the community we love and we welcome when readers take the time to read (hopefully) and offer your own thoughts on the topic.
That’s why we’ve selected some hot takes, heart-warming comments and head-scratching views readers have shared in response to our coverage this week (see below for more about why we’re doing this):
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OC Speaks Hot Take!
Casey’s comment came in response to Thursday’s story about the Wyoming Legislature looking to raise vehicle registration and license fees to raise $80 million to replace an aging computer system.
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President Joe Biden’s Jan. 27 order to pause oil and gas leasing on federal lands hit Wyoming on Friday as the BLM postponed the auction of 383 parcels covering almost half a million acres.
The leasing pause will enable a review that’s part of an all-government fight against “a profound climate crisis” exacerbated by the burning of fossil fuels, Biden’s order states. The BLM had scheduled the first-quarter 2021 sale of development rights on 476,506 acres for March 15 after deciding the sale would not “significantly affect the rate of change” in the environment. The agency did not say when a lease sale might be rescheduled.
UK Outdoors Submit a Roadmap For Reopening Educational Visits, Warning That Without Urgent Action Sector Will Be Decimated
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89% of sector revenues come from educational visits; £600m of sector revenue has been lost resulting in 6,000 jobs gone and a further 10,000 jobs at risk
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Government-backed Insurance scheme requested to enable future school bookings
LONDON, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ UK Outdoors, the industry body for outdoor learning and activities, announces that, in conjunction with the School Travel Sector Stakeholder Group ( STSSG ), it has submitted to Rt Hon Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State, and the Department for Education, a roadmap for the phased restart of domestic educational visits after Easter, over a year after visits were suspended by government guidance in March 2020.
The suspension, part of a review of President Donald Trump’s environmental policies, went into effect after Acting Interior Secretary Scott de la Vega signed the order on Wednesday, Jan. 20.
The move is in line with Biden’s campaign pledge to stop new drilling on federal lands. Biden also said he’d end the leasing of publicly owned energy reserves as part of his plan to address so-called climate change.
The suspension also applies to new coal leases and permits and blocks the approval of mining plans.
But the order did not ban new drilling outright. It included an exception giving a handful of senior officials at the Department of the Interior (DOI) the authority to approve actions that would otherwise be suspended.