All Posts Tagged With: "BLM"
More Wrangling Over the Roan Plateau
With comments coming in on a revised BLM study for fossil fuel development on Colorado’s Roan Plateau, it’s clear that there’s little common ground between the energy industry and conservation groups.
8Apr2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Obama Administration Delays Hydraulic Fracturing Rule
The decision to replace last year’s proposal with an entirely new draft rule — and take public comment on the initiative — forces a major delay in the final regulations, which are set to be the first major federal rules governing the hydraulic fracturing process key to unlocking oil and gas nationwide.
22Jan2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Regional Update: Wyoming Governor Faults BLM Over Proposed Fracing Rule
Speaking at the Wyoming Gas Fair in Jackson, Mead reiterated his long-held position that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management erred when it launched an effort to regulate the drilling completion practice on the federal and Indian lands it holds, mostly in the Rocky Mountain West.
14Sep2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Speed Up Permitting Process for Public Lands Urges Leading Oil and Gas Trade Group
The president and CEO at the American Petroleum Institute said the “shale revolution” is providing jobs and energy security to the United States. Instead of regulating the process, Washington should make it easier for energy companies to move forward.
14May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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
Oil/Gas Industry: Trust us! We care, we really do. The rest of the us: No! 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
I think its a 10% mandate not 5%. 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...
Thanks for highlighting all the great work the Northern Colorado Chapter of CRES is doing. One small but important correction--the ...