All Posts Tagged With: "Department of Interior"

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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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Special Report –The Interior’s Oil and Gas Royalty Scandal and Its Wyoming Roots

The Lakewood (CO) branch of Minerals Management operated differently from its parent in Washington, D.C. Following the Bush administration’s oft-expressed desire to run government like a business, it functioned like a quasi-business, collecting royalty payments not in cash, but in “kind,” that is, in actual oil and gas.

19Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar Seeks to Vacate Bush-Era Mining Rule

The Interior instructed the Justice Department yesterday to seek a court order to overturn a Bush administration regulation allowing mining companies to dump their waste near rivers and streams, calling the regulation “legally defective.”

28Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Dept to Review ‘Midnight Rules’
for Coal, Oil Shale

The feds will examine “several” other approvals to determine its options. “Some of the regulations are bad, and some are good,” Salazar said during a press conference in New York on Friday. “And what we will do is we will undertake a review of all of those regulations.”

24Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar Touts Renewables at Confirmation Hearing - Slams Interior’s Management under Bush

“We will be working on that beginning Day One,” Salazar said of the ethical lapses at the department, which have included accusations of partying and sex between energy lobbyists and department employees that decide the fate of leases.

16Jan2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued