All Posts Tagged With: "Bureau of Land Management"
Comments Sought on Extra-High-Voltage Power Line
The 600-kilovolt, direct-current line would transmit up to 3,000 megawatts per year of electricity from planned renewable energy facilities in south-central Wyoming through northwestern Colorado and Utah to southern Nevada.
8Jan2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Lawsuit Challenges Desert Utility Scale Projects
A Native American cultural protection group filed suit earlier this week in United States District Court, challenging the Bureau of Land Management permitting processes related to six large solar facilities planned for the Mohave, Sonoran and Colorado deserts of Southern California.
29Dec2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Colorado Public Lands Identified for Potential Solar Energy Development
The detailed study, known as the Draft Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, was compiled over the past two years as part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to create a framework for developing renewable energy in ‘the right way and in the right places.’
17Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
BLM Proposal Would Keep Vermillion Basin Off Limits to Energy Development
The proposed management plan announced yesterday by the Agency is intended to protect 242,000 acres in the basin from oil and gas development. Offering an opposing view was a Moffat County commissioner who said the move could cost the state jobs and revenues.
30Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Interior Department Opening More Than 11,000 Acres of North Park to Drilling
Over the protests of conservation groups, federal land managers are moving to open 11,160 acres of North Park for gas and oil drilling, while tweaking their proposal to protect some sage grouse breeding grounds and possibly place limits on drilling companies.
10May2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Solar Power on Public Lands: Salazar’s Latest Take
“This past year we have prioritized identifying public lands’ suitability for the large-scale production of renewable energy,” said the Secretary, “both from an environmental and resource perspective, including 24 tracts of Bureau of Land Management-administered land, in the West as Solar Energy Study Areas.”
16Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Administration Proposes $1.1 Billion BLM Budget
While focusing on renewable energy development and climate change adaptation, the budget also includes a $2.0 million increase in BLM’s Soil, Water, and Air Management program for air quality monitoring that will be targeted to areas with current or anticipated intensive oil and gas development.
3Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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
Viewpoint: State Oil and Gas Regulators Are Spread
Too Thin to do Their Jobs
The boom in gas drilling across the country has left state and federal regulatory agencies in the dust. Colorado has done better than most states, but the federal Bureau of Land Management is a laggard.
3Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Geothermal Part of Colorado Lease Sale
for First Time
The February 11th auction includes one parcel of 799 acres with subsurface Federal mineral rights which will be offered for geothermal development in Chaffee County, near the Mt. Princeton Hot Springs Resort west of Buena Vista.
21Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Oil & Gas Updates From Around the State
>> BLM Lease Sale Nets Third Smallest Total Since 1970
>> Battlement Mesa Residents: Health Study Before Drilling
>> Sportsmen Groups Praise Decision to Defer Lease Sale
>> Use of “Disposal” Wells Likely to Increase
>> Experts Highlight Q3 Growth in Natural Gas Industry
BLM Colorado’s First Online Lease Sale In the Books
The Agency conducted the online auction as a one-time test authorized by Congress to assess its feasibility. It will analyze the sale results and report to Congress in coming months. The next lease sale on Nov. 12 will revert back to the traditional on-site format and be held at the BLM’s Lakewood office.
22Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Federal Audit Finds BLM Must Do More to Combat
Fraudulent Lease Bids
Department officials are confident the proposed measures will reduce the risk of bad-faith bidders from interfering with auctions, still, the inspector general recommends several additional steps, including establishing a nationwide ban on persons or companies that have defaulted on repeated parcels from participating in BLM auctions.
8Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Going ...
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