{"id":1489096,"date":"2022-05-23T22:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T02:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489096"},"modified":"2022-05-23T22:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T02:14:44","slug":"biden-admin-gulf-oil-gas-permits-got-slow-walked-because-a-federal-agency-is-bad-at-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-gulf-oil-gas-permits-got-slow-walked-because-a-federal-agency-is-bad-at-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin: Gulf Oil &#038; Gas Permits Got Slow-Walked Because A Federal Agency Is Bad At Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-gulf-oil-gas-permits-got-slow-walked-because-a-federal-agency-is-bad-at-math%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489096&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A simple math error may be the reason that drilling permits have been held up in some locations, the Biden administration has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/19\/biden-administration-oil-gas-drilling-permit-delays\/?utm_source=piano&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=2680&#038;pnespid=6OZ3FCVXPaAb1ePB.WykT5vUtgnzSJZnLrXhxPRh8EJmc4NGr5f.wxyluKEvHgfZX20uKwAwDA\">report<\/a> from The Daily Caller, the administration acknowledged in a letter to industry leaders that \u201ca mathematical error is delaying the federal offshore oil and gas program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) head Richard Spinrad said that permitting delays had been attributed to a miscalculation that resulted when the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) used a flawed model to measure the ecological impact of offshore drilling.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, which was addressed to National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), Spinrad noted, \u201cNMFS understands the concerns of industry and is working with [the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)] to expeditiously develop \u2026 revised regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When pressed to address the skyrocketing gas prices \u2014 coupled with concerns that not enough was being done to expedite domestic production of oil and gas \u2014 former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was fond of touting the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/it-sounds-like-youre-blaming-putin-peter-doocy-spars-with-psaki-on-gas-prices-she-keeps-blaming-putin\/\">thousands of leases<\/a> that had already been approved for drilling in U.S. territories.<\/p>\n<p>But as Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy and others pointed out, having the leases approved did not mean there was any oil to drill. And even if there was oil, in addition to owning the leases, oil companies had to have approved permits in order to legally drill \u2014 and the Biden administration already had a massive backlog of permits waiting for approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublican congressional candidate Jan Kulmann, who worked in the energy industry for 23 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/deliberate-effort-to-mislead-the-public-psaki-hit-for-comments-on-unused-drilling-permits-as-gas-prices-skyrocket\">explained the situation further<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the course of defending the Biden administration\u2019s refusal to issue new oil and gas leases on federal land, Psaki said that there are over 9,000 unused leases already. So, why issue new ones?\u201d Kulmann <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/jen-psakis-excuse-on-unused-drilling-permits-is-truly-clueless\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0for the Washington Examiner, adding, \u201cYou might<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple math error may be the reason that drilling permits have been held up in some locations, the Biden administration has revealed. According to a report from The Daily Caller, the administration acknowledged in a letter to industry leaders that \u201ca mathematical error is delaying the federal offshore oil and gas program.\u201d National Oceanic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1489119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}