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WEA Study Cites Lost Benefits From Delayed Utah, Wyoming Projects

Outstanding projects delayed for more than three years in the two states represent 22,835 proposed wells, or about 1,631 wells/year, the study said. “Federal government delays to these projects are preventing the creation of 64,805 jobs,
$4.3 billion in wages, and $14.9 billion in economic impact every year,” it said.

10May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Congressional Trio: Big Government Holding Up American Energy Production

H.R. 4381, Planning for American Energy Act would require the Secretary of the Interior to develop a strategic plan every four years … and that plan would have to include oil, natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, oil shale, and minerals necessary for energy development.

25Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Official Defends Drilling Program Amid Federal Lands Production Dip

A top Interior Department official is rebutting GOP allegations that the agency is throttling oil-and-gas development, calling the recent dip in oil production from federal lands the result of industry decisions, not a lack of permits or leases.

15Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Rejects Biggest State Coal Bid in Years

Saying the bid was below the reserves’ estimated fair market value, the agency nixed the offer from a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp. of $362 million for slightly more than 400 million tons of Powder River Basin coal reserves.

1Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Fed Oil and Gas Lease Sale Nets $22 Million

The lates BLM oil and gas lease sale held Tuesday in Cheyenne brought in more than $22 million for the federal government and state of Wyoming, with a high bid of $2,600 per acre.

9Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM approves Chevron’s Expansion Plan in Western Wyoming

The BLM said it authorized Chevron to expand Table Rock Field 40 miles east of Rock Springs. The plan calls for 33 shallow new oil wells and 20 deep gas wells, and as many as 35 water injection wells. Chevron also got approval to convert 18 existing wells to water injection wells.

26Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds Study Views, Best Locations For Wyoming Wind Farms and Power Lines

The view impact study is one of several studies under way by the BLM. Others will examine the best place, from a land-use perspective, to locate wind farms.

20Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Governor Mead Wants State Energy Policy Released by 2012

Mead said the energy plan would essentially say, “Here’s what our resources are, here’s where we think new technologies could come.” The need is critical because Wyoming leads the nation in exporting energy.

7Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Renewable Projects Under Pressure From Feds and Environmental Groups

The BLM is removing some of the cheapest and best land for renewable energy projects from the market. What’s more, it drives up the price of the more scarce, available land, making the already thin margins on renewable energy projects even more precarious.

13Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Approves Energy Development in Wyoming’s Fortification Creek

The BLM said it denied a landowner group’s protest and would stick to a final plan released in March that will eventually allow energy development in the area, something that hasn’t happened since 2005, said Thomas Bills, environmental coordinator with the agency.

11Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Plans Overhaul to Oil and Gas
Royalty Process

The proposed change would streamline the current royalty process from a complicated analyses to calculating royalties using a market price based on the geography of a region. “These changes could dramatically improve compliance and reduce administrative costs for industry and the government.”

25May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar Report Tries to Refute GOP Claim Administration is Blocking Oil and Gas Drilling

Overall, 45 percent of all onshore leases and 57 percent of all leased acres are idle. “The simple truth is approval rates for drilling permits are up, and industry lays idle hands on over 21 million acres of public lands,” said Matt Garrington of the Checks & Balances Project in Denver.

1Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Comments Sought on Extra-High-Voltage
Power Line

The 600-kilovolt, direct-current line would transmit up to 3,000 megawatts per year of electricity from planned renewable energy facilities in south-central Wyoming to southern Nevada to help meet anticipated increased demand in the Southwest.

4Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Numbers Point to Natural Gas Pickup

In Wyoming, the number of drilling permits issued through November of this year is up by about 300. There’s still a pretty bright future for natural gas, not only in southwest Wyoming, but for the entire state,” said Bruce Hinchey, president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming. “We may have weathered this little bottom.”

29Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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