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US auctions off oil and gas drilling leases in Gulf of Mexico after climate talks
US auctions off oil and gas drilling leases in Gulf of Mexico after climate talks
- by theguardian
- 18 Nov 2021
- in news
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The US federal government is on Wednesday launching an auction of more than 80m acres of the gulf for fossil fuel extraction, a record sell-off that will lock in years, and potentially decades, of planet-heating emissions.
Combined, these leases would result in nearly 600m tons of planet-heating gases if fully developed over the next four decades, which is more than the total annual emissions of the UK.
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