Another BLM office postpones an oil and gas lease sale

The US Bureau of Land Management’s Eastern States office postponed its Dec. 10 oil and gas lease sale 3 days before it was to take place. Nine parcels that would have been offered will be included in the next quarterly lease sale on Mar. 17, 2016, the Dec. 7 announcement said.

Nick Snow

Dec. 7, 2015

The move came less than a month after BLM’s Utah office postponed its quarterly lease sale a day before “to allow the time needed to better accommodate the high level of public interest in attending the sale” (OGJ Online, Nov. 17, 2015). That office apologized for the short notice.

Environmental activists who had planned to protest what they termed a “fossil fuel auction” outside the Washington, DC, lease sale on Dec. 10 immediately declared a victory.

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Nick Snow

NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.