The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ely District is asking the public to provide input on potential issues associated with oil and gas leasing on 41 parcels of public land, totaling 82,121 acres, in White Pine County, Nevada. Leased parcels may later include exploration and development. The BLM is analyzing the parcels to identify potential impacts in an environmental assessment (EA), in accordance with the Oil & Gas Leasing Reform mandated in 2010. The deadline to provide input is Friday, June 3, 2016.
The input received will assist in the preparation of a preliminary EA that the BLM will make available for public review and comment in late June 2016. A Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale is scheduled on Dec. 13, 2016.
Scoping information and other documents can be found at http://1.usa.gov/1ssQyIn. Interested individuals should address all written comments to the BLM Ely District Office, 702 N. Industrial Way, Ely, Nevada 89301 Attn: 2016 Oil & Gas Lease Sale or fax them to (775) 289-1910, Attn: 2016 Oil & Gas Lease Sale. Email comments will not be accepted.
Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment – including your personal identifying information – may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
For more information, contact Leslie Riley at the BLM Ely District Office at (775) 289-1860.
What is it with humanity we must always be exploring and destroying this wonderful earth? The public is constantly bombarded with proposals to explore, if you wish, and then leave a mess for future generations.
What is it with environmentalists that must always condemn all activity as destroying this wonderful earth? The public is constantly bombarded with zealotry and junk science, if you wish, and then they leave a muddled intellectual mess for future generations to navigate though.
The wonderful earth has the things that you need in order to get on your computer and try to communicate via email and websites that ‘we’ are ‘destroying’ the planet. Sort of ironic, huh?
Or maybe a little hypocritical. Or did you not happen to notice the rather large historic MINING PROPERTY just up the road? If anti-mining, I assume that you will be turning off your computer and selling your car in favor of a horse and buggy (with no metal parts) – and moving into a ‘smart’ cave. And good luck with that.
Not attacking (not that you were not subtly attacking a collective industry, history, and culture), just saying: exploration does NOT automatically equal ‘destruction’. And jobs and technology do not grow on trees.
The date should be fixed to 2016