Conservation groups in the US have called for the Bureau of Land Management to halt the sale of federal oil and gas leases on more than 36,000 acres in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
The Bureau has authority over the federal “mineral estate” that consists of publicly owned and federally managed oil, gas and coal.
In a letter to federal officials, the Centre for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Resilient Nacodoches and Clean Water Action said opening public lands to oil and gas extraction would results in pollution of surface and groundwater.
The group has also called for the April 20th auction of federal oil and gas to be postponed because federal officials did not give the public adequate notice to comment on the proposal.
The areas to be leased for oil and gas drilling include 31,000 acres in the Davy Crockett, Sam Houston and Sabine national forests.
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