All Posts Tagged With: "Ken Salazar"

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Officials Concerned About Expiring Wind Tax Credit

An aide to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, warned Wyoming government and industry officials this week about the impact of expiring incentives for renewable energy projects.

2Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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GOPers Blast Administration’s Expanding Fracking Regs

The Interior Department is in the process of updating rules for hydraulic fracturing on public lands and developing a proposal to require disclosure of chemicals used in the drilling technique. The fear is it will stymie tapping the nation’s huge shale gas and oil reserves.

17Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior’s New Plan Aims to Build a Balanced Solar Energy Program on Public Lands

The supplemental appears to include a number of modifications that could improve the process for siting large-scale solar projects on public lands, which Interior hopes will lay the foundation for a durable, successful solar energy program. The 90-day comment period awaits.

28Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Judge Affirms Interior’s Right To Reject Federal Oil and Gas Leases Due to Enviromental Impacts

Robin Cooley, the Earthjustice attorney for the conservation groups that intervened in the Utah and Wyoming case, said Wednesday’s decision is actually a win-win for both the industry and the environmental community.

5Jul2011 | 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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Oil Industry Battles Claims That Leases
Are Languishing

Industry executives are responding to allegations they are sitting idle on drilling leases covering tens of millions of acres while the cost of crude is climbing. “It is a convenient way to detract attention from policies that undermine the mission of supplying Americans with the energy they need,” said API’s Erik Milito.

1Apr2011 | 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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Salazar’s Big Day in The Cowboy State

Meeting with oil and gas executives in one roundtable discussions, the Secretary said he supported the practice of hyraulic fracturing, but cautioned oil and gas executives that transparency was important to avoid misconceptions by the public

25Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior to Allow Expanded Coal Production in
Powder River Basin

“There’s no place in the country that captures this all-of-the-above approach quite like Wyoming,” Salazar told reporters on a conference call, noting oil-and-gas development in the state as well as its major coal production.

23Mar2011 | 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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Governor-Elect Wants Fracking Regulation
Left to States

In an interview on Friday, Mead said he agreed with that policy — not because fracking has proven harmful to water quality — but because he believes states should be responsible for regulating drilling activities.

7Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar Orders Division of Federal Oil Regulator

As BP prepares to launch its latest effort to plug the oil leak in the gulf, the Interior Secretary says the agency will be split into three arms to oversee leasing, safety and royalties.

20May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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In Wake of Gulf Spill, Obama Administration Seeks to Divide Minerals Management Service Agency

Persistent problems have plagued the agency, which has come under fire for ethical lapses and most recently for accelerating permit approvals and incorporating industry practices in the regulations. Salazar’s new move is the latest in his campaign to reform the MMS since he became Secretary of the Interior.

12May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Industry’s Challenge of Co-Existing
with Wildlife in Wyoming and Elsewhere

The problem with the Wyoming approach is that it is not based on extensive information about how wind projects impact sage grouse. “We don’t have the information about how wind affects sage grouse,” says Laurie Jodziewicz, AWEA’s manager of siting policy. “And we have little opportunity to do research because you can’t build in the core areas.”

16Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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