All Posts Tagged With: "Department of Interior"
BLM to Get $305M Facelift — Including Funds
for Renewables
The money will be used to update BLM facilities, trails and roads, as well as help jumpstart renewable energy projects, with $41 million allocated to alleviate the backlog of pending applications for solar and wind energy projects on BLM lands.
4May2009 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedSalazar’s Oil Shale
Reactions to last week’s decision by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, the former senator from Colorado, to reverse the last-minute Bush Administration ruling to open Western public lands for oil share exploration ranged from outrage to exuberance. Both extremes are overstated. For one thing, Salazar is only postponing the lease sale, not canceling it.
3Mar2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued