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Western Energy Alliance’s Top Three Differentiators

1/26/2022

 
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Oil and natural gas companies and associated businesses participate in many trade associations. Here’s what makes Western Energy Alliance unique:
  • Voice of the industry in the West
  • Robust Legal Defense Fund and strategy
  • “Guerrilla communications” that move the needle on our policy issues.
 
The oil and natural gas industry has a ton of trade associations. There’s at least one, often multiple, trade associations for each producing state; trade associations for each sector; those representing large companies and those representing independents; and trades associations that focus on national issues down to local issues. That makes sense, since we’re a highly complex industry and there are many levels of government and agencies with their fingers in the pie. No one trade association can handle it all, even the biggest. 


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The Single Biggest Thing Pres. Biden Could Do to Lower Gas Prices

1/20/2022

 
Earlier this week, Alliance President Kathleen Sgamma testified at a joint virtual forum hosted by the Congressional Western Caucus and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republican members. Lawmakers held the event on the anniversary of Pres. Biden’s first year in the White House to explore how his policies have contributed to increased energy prices.
 
The discussion focused on the consequences of the Biden Ban on federal leasing, the overreaching threats from the Build Back Better Act, and overregulation from the Department of the Interior and other agencies that will further dampen American production. Participants also explored how to reverse the administration’s policies, the climate benefits of producing oil and natural gas in the United States, and Interior slow walking the permitting process. 

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Activist Judge Bush Whacked by the Ninth Circuit Court

1/19/2022

 
Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle held that Chesapeake Energy was wrongly denied intervention in litigation challenging numerous Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and natural gas lease sales in the District Court of Idaho. Environmental groups have repeatedly challenged sales conducted since 2015, primarily in five lawsuits in the district courts of Idaho, Montana, and Washington, DC. The latest ruling represents a backfire in the plaintiffs’ plans to choose those jurisdictions and sidestep Wyoming, Colorado or Utah (the states where the vast majority of the leases were issued) as they forum shopped for activist judges who would put a finger on the scale and rule in their favor.
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