All Posts Tagged With: "Ken Salazar"

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Energy Groups Relieved Sage Grouse will
Not be Listed

Friday’s announcement by the Interior Department that it won’t list the bird as an endangered or threatened species has energy industries operating in the West breathing a little easier. The oil and gas, wind and solar industries will still face scrutiny in sage grouse habitat but much less so than if the bird had made the list.

8Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds to Take More Measured Approach to Oil and
Gas Leasing This Year

Concerns and conflict over the first round of federal oil shale leases in the Rockies have made the government more deliberate in the second round, a federal official said Friday.

7Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar Announces New BLM Reforms Aimed at Improving Land Protection and Energy Leasing

“The previous Administration’s ‘anywhere, anyhow’ policy on oil and gas development ran afoul of communities, carved up the landscape, and fueled costly conflicts that created uncertainty for investors and industry,” said the Secretary at the Washington D.C. announcement.

6Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar Set to Unveil Oil and Gas Leasing Reforms

The administration is set to reveal new federal leasing practices it hopes will increase confidence in the system. “We are not just about the business of letting the oil and gas industry run the Department of Interior,” Secretary Salazar said in the New Year’s Eve interview.

4Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Industry Nail-biting Over BLM Oil & Gas
Lease Review

Announcement of a “comprehensive review” of oil and gas leasing on federal lands has aroused curiosity among many in Wyoming. Oil and gas trade groups have called the move unfair, and conservation and sporting groups say they’re hoping for a better balance between wildlife protection and energy development.

22Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar Says Oil, Gas and Coal Important to
U.S. Energy Portfolio

“The fact remains that oil, gas and coal are a very important part of our energy portfolio and will remain a part of the energy portfolio in the future. We must also not forget that we as a nation must deal with climate change,” the Interior Secretary told the Bismarck, North Dakota audience.

10Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar’s Juggling Act on Oil Shale

Thought to contain many billions of barrels of oil trapped in shale, in the form of kerogen, the Green River leases have been the subject of controversy ever since the Interior Secretary, under George Bush, added “lease addenda” on six parcels on federal land, setting sweetheart royalty rates for the producers controlling the leases and expanding existing 160-acre research plots up to 5000 acres.

28Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Secretary Salazar Seeks Review
of Oil Shale Contracts

He asks the department’s inspector general to look at amendments, potentially worth billions to shale leaseholders, finalized during the final days of the Bush administration. “Taxpayers deserve answers to serious questions about why these lease addenda were granted at the eleventh hour,” Salazar added in a news release.

21Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar: Interior Dept Making Fast Progress
on Clean Energy

“Already, across the country, we are seeing the opportunities that would come from a clean energy economy powered by American resources and American ingenuity. Ranchers across the eastern plains, Wyoming, Nebraska, and elsewhere are earning extra money as wind farms spring to life.”

20Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds to Kill Royalty-in-Kind Program

Interior Secretary Salazar said at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing today that the scandal-ridden Royalty-in-Kind program, which allows industry to provide oil and natural gas directly to the Interior Department in lieu of cash royalty payments, will be terminated.

16Sep2009 | 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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Wind Developers Seek Review of State’s
Sage Grouse Policy

Wind industry groups Interwest Energy Alliance, American Wind Energy Association and Renewable Northwest Project sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar requesting the Interior Department review Wyoming’s sage grouse protection policy.

14Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Studies Hightlight Potential, Peril of Oil Shale

In the last couple of weeks two new reports have emerged that take a clear-eyed look at the prospective oil-shale boom. Though they were produced by the Center of the American West, at the University of Colorado, and Headwaters Economics, two left-leaning think tanks, they are admirably objective and non-ideological.

7Jul2009 | 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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