The next lease sale planned by the U.S. government for oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico will be streamed live on the Internet, an agency said. On March 22, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management plans to stream the next lease for the rights to drill into 48 million acres of territorial waters off the coast of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. “Livestreaming the sale enables BOEM to deliver pertinent bid information immediately to a much broader national and international audience,” the agency explained. Environmental advocates had complained moving the lease online would silence the voice of dissent. Demonstrations were […]