Energy Development on Public Lands is Robust: U.S. Interior Deputy Secretary at Platts Energy Podium

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy development of federal lands and waters is robust and opportunities abound for oil and gas production as well as renewable energy projects, outgoing U.S. Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes said at a Platts Energy Podium newsmaker event in Washington.
Hayes, who is leaving his post to teach at Stanford Law School in the fall, defended his department's efforts despite criticism from some in Congress that the Obama administration isn't moving fast enough to make more public lands available for energy development.
"It is incredibly frustrating how politicized this issue has become," Hayes said. "On the oil side, onshore, we've gone up by 35% in terms of oil being produced on our public lands."http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=7102398&access=EH