Salazar Puts the Kibosh on Oil Leases in Utah

Posted February 4th, 2009 at 4.20pm in Energy and Environment.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he’s scrapping the lease of dozens of parcels of federal land for oil and gas drilling in Utah’s redrock country. Salazar on Wednesday ordered the Bureau of Land Management, which is part of the Interior Department, not to cash checks from winning bidders for the parcels at issue in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups.”

As the head of the Department of Interior, Salazar will face a number of challenges and will also be presented with opportunities to expand energy exploration and production in the United States. In addition to managing the 650 million acres of land under federal ownership, the head of DOI will need to address how it handles offshore and onshore drilling, unconventional sources of energy such as oil shale, and other sources of energy such as uranium mining. The questions Salazar will face in the next few years, with the appropriate answers, can be found here.

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February 4, 2009 Wayne from Jeremiah Films writes:

I’ve added a link to your post from Obama selects Ken Salazar for Secretary of the Interior, which includes many quotations from articles on the internet.

February 4, 2009 Thomas Gray South Carolina, writes:

And so it began, how the greatest most powerfull country on earth was destroyed from within.

February 5, 2009 Marshall Hill-Michigan writes:

Salazar has been programed to follow!

February 5, 2009 sher308 chester,md. writes:

we could be completely out of debt if we drill our own oil, why do the dems not want this?do they always want to keep this country in debt and supporting millions on welfare. now with ginsgerg sick watch out who o puts in her place.we sure have dummed down the presidentcy.

February 5, 2009 Joseph Cummins, Carrollton, GA writes:

no matter how one slices and dices reality:

govt=debt

debt=slavery

control of natural resources assures govt of a constant source of human resources.

February 6, 2009 MaryS, Fresno,CA writes: writes:

Everyone rise up and write or e-mail your senators in Washington immediately, voicing your opposition to this unbelievable legislation. I did. Let our voices be heard!

April 14, 2009 Preston Helton, Grand Junction, CO writes:

America is reaping what she has sewn. The Majority has spoken and Obama ain’t jokin. Awaken the anti-christ Mr. President. You are leading the way. Sad to say.

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