Tell BLM: No Drilling Near Neighborhoods & Sensitive Ecosystems!

The Bureau of Land Management wants to auction 44 parcels — roughly 36,000 acres across Kern, Kings, Fresno, and San Luis Obispo counties — to oil and gas companies at a December lease sale.

To do it, BLM has published a Draft Environmental Assessment and a draft “Finding of No Significant Impact.” That is the agency’s formal position: opening 36,000 acres of public land to drilling is not significant enough to require a full environmental impact statement.

BLM has also determined, preliminarily, that no historic properties would be affected — on land within the ancestral homelands of the Chumash, Yokuts, and Salinan peoples, next to Carrizo Plain National Monument and Painted Rock, one of the most significant Indigenous sacred sites in North America.

Submit a public comment to BLM today and say NO to drilling near neighborhoods, sensitive ecosystems, and cultural sites.

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I am writing to oppose the proposed December 2026 oil and gas lease sale and to object to the Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact issued for it.

Leasing 44 parcels, roughly 36,000 acres in Kern, Kings, Fresno, and San Luis Obispo counties, is a major federal action with significant effects. It is unreasonable for BLM to find “no significant impact” here. BLM must withdraw the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement.

At minimum, BLM must:

- Defer every parcel overlapping California’s Health Protection Zones: the 3,200-foot buffer zone established by state law between new oil development and homes, schools, and hospitals.

- Defer parcels inside the Lokern-Buena Vista and Chico Martinez Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, and those bordering Carrizo Plain National Monument, habitat for the San Joaquin kit fox, giant kangaroo rat, and blunt-nosed leopard lizard.

- Withdraw the preliminary finding of “no historic properties affected” and complete documented government-to-government consultation with the affected Tribes before any sale.

- Fully disclose whether and how generative AI was used to prepare this EA or to summarize public comments: which systems, which tasks, and what human verification occurred.

- Quantify lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from reasonably foreseeable development, and analyze alternatives that take health protection zones and sensitive species into account.

BLM must withdraw the FONSI and prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement.

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