Challenges Facing Domestic Oil and Gas Development: Review of Bureau of Land Management/U. S. Forest Service Ban on Horizontal Drilling on Federal Lands

Download or read book Challenges Facing Domestic Oil and Gas Development: Review of Bureau of Land Management/U. S. Forest Service Ban on Horizontal Drilling on Federal Lands written by and Forestry, U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources &, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources & Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry, U.S. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the Subcommittee is meeting to review the future of oil and gas development on Federal lands in light of Administration proposals to enact complete bans on horizontal drilling on Federal lands. Earlier this year, the U.S. Forest Service of George Washington National Forest released a forest plan that had the Administration's preferred alternative as a ban on horizontal drilling on more than one million acres of Federal mineral estate. This plan as proposed by the Administration would essentially close the entire resource to energy development, eliminate a key priority in the multiple-use mission of Forest Service lands, and further erode our efforts to generate domestic energy security.