Trump critics don’t think he should help oil and gas during COVID-19 pandemic

 

While the federal government has given COVID-19 pandemic aid to many businesses and industries, its move to assist the oil and gas industry gets a different take from observers and some journalists.

Their take is that the Trump administration is cozy with oil and gas and while allowing the industry to pay lower prices for the right to drill on public lands, it is doing so at the harm of states which need the revenue during the pandemic.

The Guardian, working with a watchdog group analyzed how the Bureau of Land Management granted economic relief for drilling on land leased by some energy giants. Their analysis even cited Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy as a claimed example as one of four firms with a history of filing false royalty information from wells on public land.

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