All Posts Tagged With: "Ken Salazar"
Interior Expands “Common-Sense” Efforts to Conserve Sage Grouse Habitat in the West
The federal government will start to protect the sage grouse as a “candidate” species under the Endangered Species Act. The Interior said the compromise decision embraces the latest science indicating that sage grouse need help to avoid extinction in the face of energy development, grazing and home-building.
5Mar2010 | admin | 0 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
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
Fed Oil and Gas Leasing Reforms on Tap
The administration is set to reveal new federal leasing practices it hopes will increase confidence in the system. “We are not just about the business of letting the oil and gas industry run the Department of Interior,” Secretary Salazar said in the New Year’s Eve interview.
4Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Salazar to Climate Skeptics: “You’re Wrong”
and the U.S. will Cap Emissions
“Some people don’t even accept that climate change is real,” the former Democratic senator from Colorado said in Copenhagen, where nearly 200 countries are meeting to negotiate a new treaty to combat global warming. “I believe they are wrong.”
11Dec2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Salazar’s Juggling Act on Oil Shale
The Interior Secretary executed a nice pirouette last week, ordering an investigation of last-minute oil shale leases granted by the exiting Bush Administration earlier this year while, at the same time, instituting a second round of those leases in the Green River basin of Colorado and Utah.
28Oct2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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
Interior Terminating Royalty-in-Kind Program
Interior Secretary Salazar said at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing today that the scandal-ridden Royalty-in-Kind program, which allows industry to provide oil and natural gas directly to the Interior Department in lieu of cash royalty payments, will be terminated.
16Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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
Western Resource Advocates Takes Issue
with Oil Shale Reporting
Says the WRA’s Roessmann, “The whole point of the RD&D program was to establish commercial and technical feasibility and assess environmental risks. The BLM’s efforts to develop a second round of oil shale leases essentially put the cart before the horse.”
20Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Lawsuit Challenges Energy Corridors Plan
The lawsuit contends the designation of the corridors ignored any alternatives that may favor the development of renewable energy and accordingly align with and “perpetuate the use of coal-fired plants throughout the West.” As a result, the corridors “leave stranded and underserved” many areas with renewable energy resources.
9Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Studies Highlight Potential, Peril of
Oil Shale
In the last couple of weeks two new reports have emerged that take a clear-eyed look at the prospective oil-shale boom on the Western Slope. Though they were produced by the Center of the American West, at the University of Colorado, and Headwaters Economics, two left-leaning think tanks, they are admirably objective and non-ideological.
7Jul2009 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Full Speed Ahead for Large Solar Projects
in Colorado and the West
Under one initiative, 24 tracts of BLM-administered land located in six western states, known as Solar Energy Study Areas, would be fully evaluated for their environmental and resource suitability for large-scale solar energy production. Other actions include the opening of new solar permitting offices and faster reviews of industry proposals.
30Jun2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Ritter Joins Western Governors in Mapping Strategy for Large Scale Renewables
Meeting in Park City, the Western Governors’ Association and Dept. of Energy released a joint report that takes the first steps toward identifying those areas in the West that have both the potential for large scale development of renewable resources and low environmental impacts.
16Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Thank you Govenor Ritter for helping place Colorado among the Nations leaders in Renewable energy! 
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