N.D. Attorney General Wrigley sounds off on Biden oil lease strategy
Steve Hallstrom
Special to The Farmer
North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley is blasting the Biden Administration for not adhering to a 2023 court order that requires it to offer oil and natural gas lease sales on public land.
The state, at Wrigley’s direction, sued the federal government in January of 2023, claiming that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had violated federal law by not offering oil and natural gas leases every three months.
North Dakota won its case, when two months later, U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor ruled that the Department of the Interior did not have the right to stop North Dakota oil and gas lease sales on public land. Traynor did not, however, grant the State’s request that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) be compelled to hold the canceled sales from 2021 and 2022.
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