In fact, this legislation specifically allows oil and gas leasing in “areas…for environmental conservation purposes, including the purposes of shore protection, beach nourishment and restoration, wetlands restoration, and habitat protection.’’ It also forbids any president from pausing, delaying, deferring or cancelling any lease sale
Senator Daines’ drill everywhere bill, if enacted, would subvert all other natural resource values and give oil companies carte blanche to exploit our public lands and waters as they see fit, and in doing so, trample over every other user group that utilizes these lands that belong to all of us.