Salazar’s Big Day in The Cowboy State
CASPER –Earlier this week Interior Secretary Ken Salazar met with representatives of Wyoming’s energy industry and expressed support for their work, according to those who attended the roundtable...
View ArticleSalazar Report Tries to Refute GOP Claim Administration is Blocking Oil and...
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has released a report requested by President Obama showing that two-thirds of all offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico and half of all onshore leases...
View ArticleOil Industry Battles Claims That Leases Are Languishing
Oil industry leaders are fighting back against allegations they are sitting idle on drilling leases covering tens of millions of acres while the cost of crude is climbing. Erik Milito, upstream...
View ArticleInterior Plans Overhaul to Oil and Gas Royalty Process
The Interior Department said Tuesday that it is planning to overhaul the way it calculates royalties that energy companies owe the federal government from production of oil and gas on federal lands and...
View ArticleJudge Affirms Interior’s Right To Reject Federal Oil and Gas Leases Due to...
Conservation groups were elated last week by a U.S. District Court decision in Wyoming affirming the Interior Department’s ability to weigh environmental impacts when issuing oil and gas leases on...
View ArticleInterior’s New Plan Aims to Build a Balanced Solar Energy Program on Public...
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has released a plan to develop a comprehensive and environmentally responsible roadmap for solar development on public lands in the West, which national...
View ArticleGOPers Blast Administration’s Expanding Fracking Regs
WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) – U.S. Republicans on Wednesday blasted the Obama administration’s plans to expand regulation of the controversial “fracking” drilling practice essential to tapping the...
View ArticleOfficials Concerned About Expiring Wind Tax Credit
An aide to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, warned Wyoming government and industry officials this week about the impact of expiring incentives for renewable energy projects. At a meeting in Jackons for...
View ArticleFeds Complete Environmental Review for Largest Wind Project
The Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Farm project proposed by Power Co. of Wyoming has received environmental reviews from the federal government. The 3,000 megawatt project would contain as many as...
View ArticleSalazar: U.S. Needs Federal Fracking Rules
(From Reuters) Defending the Obama administrations drive for federal regulation of fracking, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said on Monday that the United States must toughen up its rules to...
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