{"id":17215,"date":"2018-02-16T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T22:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=17215"},"modified":"2018-02-20T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:22:22","slug":"all-pain-no-gain-blm-methane-rule-rollback-hurts-westerners-helps-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2018\/02\/16\/all-pain-no-gain-blm-methane-rule-rollback-hurts-westerners-helps-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"All pain, no gain: BLM methane rule rollback hurts Westerners, helps no one"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The rhetoric of President Trump and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke might suggest they care about maximizing America\u2019s abundant natural resources. However, their actions repeatedly prove the opposite.<\/p>\n

Every day roughly one million dollars\u2019 worth of American natural gas is lost from taxpayer-owned lands through flaring, intentional releases, and leaks. After first temporarily suspending measures to cut this waste, the Department of the Interior earlier this week proposed \u2018replacing\u2019 them with a measure<\/a> that will turn the clock back to the 30-year-old rigged system that allows operators to waste this public resource with virtual impunity.<\/p>\n

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This proposal hurts Western communities <\/strong><\/p>\n

Western states and tribes see the negative impact of natural gas waste in their budgets. Less energy captured means fewer royalties, which go to schools, roads, and other needed infrastructure projects in communities across the West. By greenlighting more unnecessary waste, Secretary Zinke harms Western communities who see less funding in their coffers and have to make hard decisions about which health centers<\/a> or school supplies to cut back on this year. BLM\u2019s own analysis<\/a> estimates that over $800 million of natural gas will be lost if this replacement rule is adopted.<\/p>\n

[Tweet “All pain, no gain: BLM methane rule rollback hurts Westerners, helps no one”]<\/p>\n

The original BLM methane rule, which was adopted in November of 2016 and included common-sense and cost-effective strategies to reduce methane waste, has the strong support<\/a> of three out of four Westerners, including 77 percent of those in Secretary Zinke\u2019s home state of Montana.<\/p>\n

BLM admits that gutting these standards won\u2019t lead to energy dominance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump and Zinke love to talk about \u201cenergy dominance.\u201d One could justifiably assume that the rollback is calculated to boost oil and gas production on federal and tribal lands.\u00a0 However, the analysis of Zinke\u2019s own department finds this revision will lead to just the opposite.<\/p>\n

BLM\u2019s own analysis<\/a> estimates that energy production will actually decline<\/em><\/strong> as a result of this proposed rule revision, with companies forgoing<\/span> the production and sale of 299 Bcf of natural gas. That means less American energy in world markets and less royalty income for the American taxpayer and Native American tribes.<\/p>\n

This rollback even flies in the face of the oil and gas industry\u2019s own efforts to cut waste. For example, XTO, an ExxonMobil subsidiary, recently announced<\/a> it will continue to comply with the current BLM methane waste rule.<\/p>\n

Where are the jobs? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump loves to discuss Obama-era regulations as job killers. Now that his administration is coming up with their own plan, will the jobs flood in, especially to small, local businesses? Nope<\/a>. \u201cBLM does not believe that the proposed rule will substantially alter the investment or employment decisions of firms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The job trend from this proposal may even be negative; by sending a signal that more waste is acceptable, Secretary Zinke hurts the innovative methane mitigation companies<\/a> that help oil and gas operators keep more product in the pipeline.<\/p>\n

Members of the Trump administration are increasingly getting headlines for abusing taxpayer dollars<\/a>. Unfortunately, the latest move from the Department of the Interior is more of the same. Secretary Zinke should listen to his neighbors back home and respect our nation\u2019s publicly-owned resources by keeping the BLM methane waste rule strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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