All Posts Tagged With: "Ken Salazar"

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Solar Versus Oil and Gas on Public Lands:
A Tale of Two Processes

Interior Department’s approval of utility scale solar development stands in sharp contrast to the approach it has taken for oil and gas leasing. While exploration companies are dealing with long delays in the approval process for drilling permits on BLM-managed lands, big PV projects are getting fast tracked.

28Oct2012 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Regional IMPACTS

>> The Five Worst States for Renewables
>> Bush Era Utah Lease Suspensions Upheld
>> Oil Wells are Thirsty Rivals in West
>> Wyoming County Eager for Coal-to-Gas Plant
>> Rifle, Colorado Firm Cuts Energy Use in Big Way

6Sep2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Regional Update: Feds Complete Environmental Review for Largest Wind Project in U.S.

The 3,000 megawatt Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Farm project in Wyoming would contain as many as 1,000 turbines on public and private land. Salazar told reporters Interior is promoting wider use of renewables on public land to reduce consumption of foreign oil and create more clean energy jobs.

3Jul2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Salazar: U.S. Needs Federal Fracking Rules

State level oversight of hydraulic fracturing or fracking is not sufficient and criticism leveled at the Obama administration for its proposed rules is not valid, Salazar told Reuters in an interview. The Secretary said states are at very different levels with the rules.

26Jun2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Floats New Draft Rules to
Regulate ‘Fracking’

The plan from Interior’s Bureau of Land Management also contains requirements on oil-and-gas well integrity to verify that fluids from the fracking process aren’t escaping into nearby water supplies, and requirements for management of large volumes of so-called flowback water.

7May2012 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Salazar Talks Solar and Mining Projects Near
the Grand Canyon

On sustaining the solar tax credits, the Interior Secretary said “incentivizing these new entrants into the energy market is important. We give tax breaks to the oil and gas companies all across the country … There is every reason to provide incentives to the solar-energy world because of their importance.”

16Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior’s New Plan Aims to Build a Balanced Solar Energy Program on Public Lands

The supplemental appears to include a number of modifications that could improve the process for siting large-scale solar projects on public lands, including western Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Interior hopes it will lay the foundation for a durable, successful solar energy program.

28Oct2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Wins
Legal Battle

The District Court decision in Wyoming affirming the Interior Department’s ability to weigh environmental impacts when issuing oil and gas leases on public lands – as long as it does so in a timely fashion. Still, Republicans are pushing hard to speed up both the leasing and the permitting process, and U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., recently blasted the Obama administration for impeding domestic oil and gas production.

But Robin Cooley (pictured above), the Earthjustice attorney for the groups that intervened in the Utah and Wyoming case, said the decision is actually a win-win for both the industry and the environmental community.

5Jul2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Plans Overhaul to Oil and Gas Royalties

The proposed change would streamline the current royalty process from a complicated analyses to calculating royalties using a market price based on the geography of a region. “These changes could dramatically improve compliance and reduce administrative costs for industry and the government.”

25May2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Lively Exchange at BLM Oil Shale Meeting in Rifle

The meeting was part of the agency’s attempt to take a fresh look at an oil shale plan released in the closing days of the Bush Administration. More meetings on the controversial topic are scheduled for Denver today and in Cheyenne Thursday.

4May2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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CEN’s ‘Fracking’ Focus — News and Views

>>BLM Fracking Meeting in Golden Monday
>>Feds Taking In-Depth Examination of Process
>>Colorado Ranks Second in Carcinogen-Laced Fluids
>>Shell Oil President Wants Tighter Regs
>>Encana Joins Online Chemicals Database
>>NY Attorney General Threatens Lawsuit

25Apr2011 | | 2 comments | Continued
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This Week’s Oil and Gas Developments

BLM to Revisit Oil Shale …
Companies Get Big Fines for Stormwater Runoff…
Elbert County Heats Up With Oil and Gas Fever …
Fracking Chemical Registry Not Enough Say Critics …
Texas Company Told to Cease and Desist in Colorado…
Local Governments Oppose COGCC Board Remake…

14Apr2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Industry Battles Claims That Leases Are Languishing

They’re refuting allegations they are sitting idle on drilling leases covering tens of millions of acres while the cost of crude is climbing. “It is a convenient way to detract attention from policies that undermine the mission of supplying Americans with the energy they need,” said API’s Erik Milito.

1Apr2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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