All Posts Tagged With: "Bush Administration"

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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
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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.

20Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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EPA Orders Redo of Air-Permit Analysis for
Weld County Facility

The Federal agency contends the initial study of pollution was too narrow and that the state failed to adequately evaluate overall pollution impacts. Signed by Administrator Lisa Jackson, the order said the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment “failed to adequately support or explain” its decision.

16Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Federal Court Blocks Drilling in Baca
Wildlife Refuge

The Bush administration approved the plan, deciding that drilling and gas exploration would have no significant impact on the refuge or groundwater, and that a full environmental impact analysis was not necessary. Records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act later showed that industry officials helped draft parts of the government’s analysis.

4Sep2009 | admin | 4 comments | Continued
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Bush Drilling Program Left Huge Backlog
of Contested Leases in Rocky Mountains

The federal government is holding a boatload of money for leases it auctioned and sold but hasn’t issued — “It’s just crazy that the government, because of bureaucratic delays, is sitting on that kind of money,” said Kathleen Sgamma of the Denver-based Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States.

10Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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