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Biden stops 'fracking' in federal territory but insists he will not ban it

2021-01-27T20:28:43.238Z


The US president stops new concessions for the exploitation of oil and gas on federal lands President Joe Biden accompanied by the Administration's Climate Czar, John Kerry, and Vice President Kamala Harris, at the White House.KEVIN LAMARQUE / Reuters President Joe Biden has signed this Wednesday a battery of executive orders to "confront the existential threat of climate change", among which are the prohibition of hydraulic drilling on federal land - a technique known as fracking - and


President Joe Biden accompanied by the Administration's Climate Czar, John Kerry, and Vice President Kamala Harris, at the White House.KEVIN LAMARQUE / Reuters

President Joe Biden has signed this Wednesday a battery of executive orders to "confront the existential threat of climate change", among which are the prohibition of hydraulic drilling on federal land - a technique known as fracking - and the use of existing water. in those lands.

"We are not going to ban

fracking

, we are going to protect and increase jobs," the president clarified during an appearance at the White House.

He also ordered the suspension of new leases to extract oil and gas on federal soil, a measure that has caused immediate rejection from the industry.

One of the criticisms Biden received during the campaign was his conservative stance on his stance on fossil fuels.

This Wednesday he signed an order for federal agencies to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies and identify new opportunities to stimulate innovation.

For Earth Day, April 22, Biden has convened an international summit of leaders on climate change.

"We know what we have to do, now we have to do it," urged the president.

The measures have already received the first criticism and are expected to face opposition in Congress, led by Republicans.

"Penalizing the oil and gas industry kills well-paying American jobs, hurts our already struggling economy, makes our country more dependent on foreign energy sources, and impacts those who depend on affordable and reliable energy," he posted. in a statement Anne Bradbury, president of the American Exploration and Production Council, a group representing oil and gas producers.

The new Administration is expected to present its plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions (known as NDCs) for the next decade before or during the international summit convened by the US When Barack Obama joined the Paris Agreement in 2015 , his Government set a cut target for 2025 of between 26% and 28% compared to 2005 levels. “The United States must be as ambitious as possible, because our credibility has been tarnished in these four years that we have been absent, "said the special presidential envoy for the climate, John Kerry, at a press conference at the White House on Wednesday.

Biden closes his first week in the White House with climate change among the priorities of his Administration, addressing it as an urgent crisis to which they will respond with aggressive measures.

The blockade on the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline designed to transport oil from Canada through the United States to reach existing refineries on the Gulf Coast was applauded by activists, but it meant the loss of thousands of jobs.

"We need to create new [green] jobs" and "the same people can do those jobs," said Kerry, who noted that before the pandemic, the fastest growing jobs were those related to solar panels and wind turbines.

The national adviser on climate, Gina McCarthy, also present at the press conference, clarified that the government is not going to ask people "to go from central Ohio or Pennsylvania to ship to the coast to have solar jobs."

"When we say climate change, eventually people will think of jobs ... We need to put people to work in their own communities," he emphasized.

Source: elparis

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