There are regulatory changes (click here) that can occur to facilitate wind production permits rather than oil and gas permits. The Cabinet Secretary would have to request the BLM and Ocean Energy Management to find the needed changes. But, it is doable.
Courts could be accessed to provide the opportunity for wind when these lands were not offered for alternative energies.
The reason I mention the courts is because leases for 2012-2017 have already been auctioned. But, if there is an INEQUITY of LAND USE of public lands AND/OR there is more profitable and more wind potential of these lands then it is possible the government will have to redraw the maps to accommodate the best outcomes of alternative energies.
There is no reason alternative energies should be provided with inferior areas of exploration any different than the petroleum industry. If anything there should be a preference for that energy source over carbon emitting fuels.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar spoke at an oil and natural gas lease sale conducted by the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management at the Mercedez-Benz Superdome Wednesday.
Updated: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 6:53 PM
The first oil and natural gas lease sale (click here) in the central Gulf of Mexico area where the Deepwater Horizon exploded two years ago attracted more than $1.7 billion in high bids from energy companies, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The lease sale, the second the U.S. has held in any region since BP's Macondo well erupted in April 2010, killing 11 rig workers and causing one of the worst environmental disasters in the nation's history, put about 39 million acres -- or 7,434 tracts -- up for bid, from as close as three miles to as far as 230 miles off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama....
The USA Military demands some of the lands from BLM be used for their purposes. The national security of the USA can't be deterred if the oil and gas are required by the USA. While abroad the USA military purchases their fuel needs, so the amount they need at home is limited to their overall capacity globally.
