All Posts Tagged With: "Ken Salazar"

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Salazar Orders Division of Federal Oil Regulator

As BP prepares to launch its latest effort to plug the oil leak in the gulf, the Interior Secretary says the agency will be split into three arms to oversee leasing, safety and royalties.

24May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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In Wake of Gulf Spill, Obama Administration Seeks to Divide Minerals Management Service Agency

Persistent problems have plagued the agency, which has come under fire for ethical lapses and most recently for accelerating permit approvals and incorporating industry practices in the regulations. Salazar’s new move is the latest in his campaign to reform the MMS since he became Secretary of the Interior.

12May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Despite Record Fines, Gas Patch Pols Want Salazar to Ease Up on Industry

Just a couple of days after running a story in which more than 90 county commissioners and other elected officials from around the West urged Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to ease up on the oil and gas industry, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel posted a story illustrating why that would be a really bad idea.

28Apr2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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