Credit Powder River Basin Resource Council
A number of conservation groups are joining the legal battle over President Biden’s oil and gas leasing pause, filing a motion to defend the president’s actions.
While representatives of the oil and gas industry seek relief from the president’s temporary pause, the conservation groups like the Sierra Club and the Powder River Basin Resource Council argue that granting relief would harm the conservation groups’ interests in “protecting public lands, offshore waters, and the climate from the impacts of federally managed oil and gas leasing and development.”
“The Conservation Groups meet all the requirements to intervene as of right because they have individually and collectively worked for decades to protect public lands, waters, and vulnerable communities from the impacts of oil and gas development,” the motion reads. “Many of Conservation Groups’ member organizations have devoted years to advocating for a pause in
Benjamin Kalu, the spokesperson for the House of Representatives and member representing Bende federal constituency of Abia State, has condemned the senseless attacks on the Police station in Uzuakoli and as well as other security formations across the south-east region by unknown hoodlums.
DAILY POST had reported that unknown gunmen on Monday morning razed a police station in Uzuakoli, Bende Local Government Area of Abia State.
The invasion it was gathered occurred in the early hours of Monday.
Reacting, Rep Benjamin Kalu, in a press statement, said he was saddened that while the South-East was still recovering and rebuilding from the destructions of the civil war, certain anarchists have ventured to destroy the gains made through sweat, blood and tears.
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