The Interior Department has indefinitely postponed at least two June online oil and gas lease sales for health and safety reasons related to Covid-19, while continuing with two other sales that promise more revenue.
Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has delayed a June 9 Nevada lease sale and June 18 Mississippi lease sale.
In addition, a lease sale originally scheduled for the week of June 8 in Utah for land near the Arches and Canyonlands national parks has now been removed from the bureau’s auction calendar. The BLM was also to have opened a public comment period May 21 ...