All Posts Tagged With: "Minerals Management Service"

post thumbnail

Under Cheney Influence, Wyoming’s Oil Ties Flooded MMS

The Wyoming connection was especially evident during the two administrations of President George W. Bush and his VP, Wyoming native Dick Cheney — who took an early and very active interest in energy policy and placed several Wyoming political friends in key positions in the Department of Interior.

3Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
post thumbnail

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
post thumbnail

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
post thumbnail

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
post thumbnail

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
post thumbnail

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