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FACT CHECK ✒ EDITORIAL ABSURDITY:

Geothermal Energy: Bureau of Land Management Should Improve Permitting Process as Development Demand Grows on Federal Lands

Filed 1h ago · Via GAO · The Buffoon Desk

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GAO reports that BLM's geothermal land nominations jumped from about 25,800 acres in 2020 to over a million in 2025, with drilling permits approved annually rising from seven to 68 over the same stretch. Despite that growth, the agency has no detailed permitting handbooks and no system to track where permits stand.

GAO recommends BLM finalize handbooks and build a unified tracking mechanism; Interior did not respond to the report at all.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK

An agency can watch its workload multiply forty-fold and still not bother building a spreadsheet to track it. That's not a staffing problem, that's a choice about what counts as important enough to write down. Interior's silence on the recommendations is its own kind of answer.

Source: Read the original at GAO → Scored: Look Busy · Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 4.0

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