Tag: Blm
Grijalva, Dombeck to push Obama administration for national roadless rule
Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva, a Democrat at one time under consideration for the secretary of the interior post being filled by Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar, is joining forces with former Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck to push the Obama administration for a national roadless rule.
Environmental groups to sue BLM over ‘midnight regulations’
Even as Republican state lawmakers gear up to make Colorado a more oil-shale-friendly business climate, a group of national and regional environmental groups Tuesday announced their intent to sue the BLM over so-called “midnight” leasing regulations pushed through by the Bush administration.
Report: Energy production makes Colorado River ‘most endangered’
Major reservoirs in the 1,450-mile Colorado River drainage could dry up in the next 13 years because of drought and climate change, according to one environmental report -- a situation exacerbated by unprecedented energy production in the basin in the last eight years.
Utah oil-and-gas auction marked by bogus bidder, Robert Redford and heated...
More than 100 protesters outside a U.S. Bureau of Land Management oil-and-gas drilling lease auction Friday in Salt Lake City charged the federal government with selling off 164,000 acres of public land for private profit, potentially defiling some of the state’s most treasured national parks.
Oil companies still pursuing shale research despite new royalty rates
The federal government’s new oil shale leasing royalty structure and the downward-spiraling economy apparently aren’t impacting the plans of three major oil company’s conducting research in Colorado’s Piceance Basin.
New BLM oil shale regs draw fire from Salazar, environmental groups
As predicted by environmental groups in a Colorado Independent story last month, new federal regulations dictating government royalties for oil shale production on public lands in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah fall far short of fair compensation, numerous critics said Monday.
Enviros hungrily eye menu of conservation goodies under Obama administration
Besides revising or even rescinding Colorado’s controversial roadless rule, environmentalists are also targeting the Bureau of Land Management’s bitterly contested leasing for natural gas drilling on the Roan Plateau near Rifle as they make a wish list of conservation issues for the incoming Obama administration.
Colorado roadless rule deliberations coming to a head
Efforts to close perceived loopholes in Colorado’s controversial roadless rule, which outlines management plans for 4.4 million acres of largely unspoiled public lands throughout the state, will come to a head Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington as a key federal advisory group meets on the issue.
Arches National … oil and gas field?
Author and naturalist Edward Abbey didn’t even like people hanging out at Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, when he was a seasonal ranger there in the late 1950s. One wonders how he’d feel about the place being overrun by oil and gas wells.
Udall vows to fight Bush administration fast-tracking of oil-shale leasing
Even as Republican Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman declared his state “open for business” to the oil-shale industry Monday in Golden, Democratic congressman Mark Udall of Colorado vowed to fight the Bush administration’s fast-tracking of commercial leasing in the West.