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MARKET ACCESS

For the last few years, there has been increased activism in the marketplace to deny oil and natural gas companies access to capital. Anti-oil groups have turned to pressuring institutional investors, banks, and other financial institutions to stop investing in the industry, attempting to distort capital markets as a means to advance policies that cannot otherwise be enacted through Congress and other democratic means. Western Energy Alliance has become increasingly active in this issue area.
 
The Alliance is particularly focused on federal regulatory efforts to elevate non-pecuniary factors over traditional evaluation of investment risk and returns. Regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are attempting to expand their jurisdiction while seeking to elevate policy and political objectives on climate change and environmental justice over their congressionally mandated duty to ensure maximization of returns and capitalization of legitimate commerce.
 
Activist groups have been able to convince neither the American people nor the majority of their representatives in Congress to stop using our products in the absence of a viable alternative, as it would mean fundamentally altering the healthy, safe, and prosperous lifestyles that Americans enjoy. The fact that our products are used in just about every facet of modern life speaks to their intrinsic value, and hence, their investment worthiness. Western Energy Alliance will engage in regulatory efforts seeking to institute onerous financial regulations that would make it more difficult if not ultimately impossible to develop oil and natural gas resources in this country.
Comments
Below are comments submitted by the Alliance on various regulatory issues:​
11/1/22 Council for Environmental Quality Request for Information on Environmental Justice Scorecard Comments
File Size: 641 kb
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10/7/22 Commodity Futures Trading Commission Climate-related Risk Comments with USGOA
File Size: 325 kb
File Type: pdf
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6/15/22 Securities and Exchange Commission Climate Disclosure Comments with USOGA
File Size: 1323 kb
File Type: pdf
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12/13/21 Department of Labor ERISA Prudence Comments with USOGA
File Size: 362 kb
File Type: pdf
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6/11/21 Securities and Exchange Commission Climate Disclosure Comments
File Size: 332 kb
File Type: pdf
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1/4/21 Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Fair Access Rule Comments
File Size: 208 kb
File Type: pdf
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07/30/20 Department of Labor Investment Duties Rule Comments
File Size: 216 kb
File Type: pdf
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