Help stop Big Oil from cheating taxpayers!

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Dear Director Kornze, I am writing to express support for the proposed rule that would replace Onshore Oil and Gas Order No. 3, Site Security. Current regulations are outdated and do not ensure that onshore oil and gas leases are properly and securely handled, measured, and paid for. The proposed updated regulations will help strengthen the Bureau of Land Management’s oversight role of onshore oil and gas facilities and help ensure that American taxpayers receive the full and proper royalty payment owed to them. Federal oil and gas development represents one of the federal government’s largest non-tax sources of revenue. Oil and gas companies have leases to drill on over 37 million acres of public lands, which produced approximately $48 billion between fiscal years 2009 and 2013. However, the Government Accountability Office included the Bureau of Land Management on its 2015 High Risk list for fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement due to how it collects its share of revenue from oil and gas produced on public lands. Instead of giving oil and gas companies leases to destroy our public lands for profit while leaving taxpayers paying the environmental and social costs, the Bureau of Land Management should hold these companies accountable for the consequences of their production of publicly-owned oil and gas. In order to address the climate crisis, our public lands are some of the best places to lock carbon in the ground. But as long as oil and gas companies continue to operate their existing leases, the federal government is responsible for making sure they do so as safely and responsibly as possible, in full accordance with the law, while taking into full account the environmental and social costs of onshore oil and gas development. Thank you for your consideration of my comments. Sincerely,

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