All Posts Tagged With: "BLM"
Colorado’s Solar Energy Future: Local
or Corporate Power?
The San Luis Valley in Western Colorado has been in the national spotlight recently as one of the “coolest” hot spots for solar energy generation. What most don’t realize is that the people who make the SLV their home have been quietly stoking a different, more democratic, grassroots solar paradigm, going back more than a quarter of a century.
10Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
BLM extends West Slope Lease Sale Comment Period
The BLM said Tuesday it will postpone the comment deadline for the far-reaching energy lease sale in Delta and Gunnison Counties by one month to February 9th. Local governments impacted by the potential sale sought the extension.
4Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Solar TRACKS
>> Record Number of Installations for U.S. in Third Quarter
>> Alamosa Site for January Hearing on Solar Zones
>> COSEIA Pushes for Tighter Permitting Processes
>> Solar Garden at C. Springs Landfill Moves Forward
Gas Pipeline Would Bore Beneath
Colorado River on West Slope
The proposed a 22-mile gas pipeline would run from the Divide Creek area under the Colorado River to processing facilities near Parachute. The BLM is seeking public comments on the pipeline proposal.
12Dec2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Forest Service OKs Coal Lease Expansions on West Slope
The decision helps enable expansion of underground mining. But Jeremy Nichols of the WildEarth Guardians says the decision means nearly 50 well pads and miles of associated roads will be created in the Sunset Trail roadless area.
9Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Energy Industry Appeals BLM Lease Ruling
Despite ‘Partial Victory’
Western Energy Alliance said the Judge’s ruling didn’t do enough to force the Bureau of Land Management to properly follow the Mineral Leasing Act when leasing parcels for oil and gas development.
6Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Groups Claim BLM Cut-and-Paste Drilling Approvals Illegally Ignore Air Pollution Impacts
“The BLM has approved thousands of oil and gas wells with no analysis of the air pollution they cause,” said Peter Hart of Wilderness Workshop.“Instead, the agency simply cut-and-pasted incorrect boilerplate statements about the Roan EIS into its environmental analyses for dozens of projects.”
20Jun2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Salazar Report Refutes 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.
31Mar2011 | admin | 8 comments | Continued
Feds to Review Oil Shale Rules Challenged By Environmentalists
Salazar said the review will settles two lawsuits filed by environmental groups over the federal government’s rules for commercial-scale oil shale operations put forth in the last days of the Bush Administration. The rules changed the BLM’s oil-shale plans in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
16Feb2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
BLM Offering Geothermal Parcel on Wednesday
A 799-acre geothermal parcel in Chaffee County will be auctioned off by the Bureau of Land Management and the agency said it would seek public input on two additional parcels.
8Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Feds Give Green Light for Mega Solar Projects
on Public Lands
Both Southern California solar developments will be launched by the end of this year and should generate nearly 1,000 jobs. We could use projects like these in Colorado. See video from BLM Bob Abbey about the Solar Fast Tracks program.
6Oct2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Forest Managers Propose New Plan for
Oil and Gas Drilling
It would cut off roughly 1.5 million acres of land in the White River National Forest to drilling that had been previously approved in the early 1990’s. The proposal would also bar oil and gas drilling on roadless national forests, but would allow for companies to drill directionally from adjacent, existing roads.
5Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
North Park Lease Sale Good News or a Dud — Depending on Who You Ask
The BLM’s controversial lease sale of parcels in Northern Colorado netted only two bids out of 11 total offered. About 1,470 acres of the full 11,073 up for lease in the area were bid on. Conservation, hunting and wildlife groups have strongly opposed opening the area to more drilling.
14May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado BLM Again Gets Low Bids on Lease Sale
For the second straight time, Colorado’s Bureau of Land Management’s quarterly oil and gas lease sale yielded some of the lowest monetary results in decades.
14Feb2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Western Slope O&G Update –
>> WILLIAMS TO EXPAND PICEANCE BASIN OPERATIONS
Company upping rig count from eight to 12 in 2010.
>> COGCC: BATTLEMENT HEALTH STUDY NOT PRESSING
Neslin says it’s too early to commit to baseline health study.
>> NO AGREEMENT ON ROAN GAS DEVELOPMENT
Another meeting is planned prior to January 15.
Geothermal Leases in Colorado Will Have to Wait
The BLM has announced it is delaying what was to be the first auction of geothermal leases in Colorado. Federal officials say they need more time to resolve questions about the potential impact of geothermal development on water and property rights.
9Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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