All Posts Tagged With: "oil and gas leases"

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Salazar Report Refutes GOP Claim Administration is Blocking Oil and Gas Drilling

Overall, 45 percent of all onshore leases and 57 percent of all leased acres are idle. “The simple truth is approval rates for drilling permits are up, and industry lays idle hands on over 21 million acres of public lands,” said Matt Garrington of the Checks & Balances Project in Denver.

31Mar2011 | admin | 8 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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