All Posts Tagged With: "Bureau of Land Management"

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Multi-State Power Line Project to Test Policies
on Grouse, ‘Wild Lands’

Backers of the proposed TransWest Express electricity transmission project are trying to accomplish something that has stymied developers in recent years: build a power line that crosses multiple state boundaries and bisects hundreds of miles of federal and private property.

15Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Wind on Target to Power Southwest

Construction will soon start on the $3 billion TransWest Express Transmission Project, which would allow cities in the Southwest to exploit Wyoming wind. The final hurdle is an environmental impact statement now being worked on by the BLM and Western Area Power Administrations.

22Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar to Review Bush Administration
Oil Shale Rules

“Oil shale is an important resource for the U.S.,” said the Secretary of the Interior. “We need to move forward and examine the possibility of developing oil shale as part of our national portfolio, but we need to do it in a smart way.” The Bush-driven rules changed the BLM’s oil-shale plans in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

16Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM: Proceed With Caution on Renewable Energy Plans

The push to fast-track renewable energy projects in America has led to some missteps along the way, Marcilynn Burke, deputy director for Programs and Policies with the Bureau of Land Management, said Wednesday at a tribal summit on renewable energy.

15Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Industry Group, BLM Spar Over Decline of
Oil and Gas Leases

An industry report last week showing a 79 percent decrease in oil and gas leases issued on public lands has ignited a debate over whether the Obama administration’s leasing policies are stifling job creation and energy production.

21Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds Consider Disclosure of Fracking Fluids
on Public Lands

Salazar said this week the department is weighing how it will move forward with a policy requiring producers to disclose the fluids associated with hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on public lands.

5Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Latest BLM Lease Auction Nets Nearly $14 Million -
State Gets Almost Half

Last week’s event in Cheyenne brought in bids totaling $13,805,255 ranged from the federally mandated minimum of $2 per acre to a high bid of $3,150 per acre.

12Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Big Money Lease Sales Show Interest in Niobrara Shale Still High

All three sales smashed the previous record, dating to the 1980s, of about $8 million, according to Harold Kemp, assistant director of the Office of State Lands and Investments. Wyoming’s share of the monies has been an unexpected boon to its general fund, with $30 million going to the state’s general fund, with most of that to benefit schools.

8Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM to Make Decision on Backlogged
Oil and Gas Leases

More than $100 million worth of unissued oil and gas leases in Wyoming and other western states may finally get acted upon by the Bureau of Land Management. The federal agency said this week that it will soon decide whether the first of the leases across the West will be handed over to drilling companies.

16Jul2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Reporting from Whitefish –
Western Governors Release Climate
Adaptation Report

The Western Governors’ Association has published a climate adaptation scoping report that emphasizes the need for coordination between state and federal efforts to identify key science that is Western specific and begins to share and implement smart practices.

1Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Court Rejects Challenge to Wyoming Drilling

The Biodiversity Conservation Alliance and others claimed that the bureau wrongly refused to consider their alternative for drilling, which would cluster wells geographically and maintain open space.

23Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Sets Rental Rate for Solar Plant Sites

The BLM announcement was met with applause from the Solar Energy Industries Association. “While oil and gas companies have received more than 74,000 permits to operate on federal lands in the past two decades, utility-scale solar developers have received zero,” Rhone Resch, president of the association, said in a prepared statement.

11Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State Nets Record O&G Lease Sale Amidst
Talk of New Play

The quarterly lease sale that took place in Cheyenne this week shattered the previous record of $30 million set in 2008. The highest bids came on leases in Converse, Goshen and Platte counties in the eastern and southeastern region of the state.

14May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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GAO Audit Faults Royalty Measurement
for Oil and Gas

The Interior Department lags in keeping up with current technologies, not updating several measurement standards in 20 years, and for failing to meet inspection and calibration goals aimed at maintaining accurate measurements of oil and gas production on federal lands, says the report.

15Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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