News Source: The Daily Sentinel
| about 1 month ago
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Tuesday, October 20, 2009 The federal government will reopen oil shale lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming to research and development leases and at the same time open an investigation into last-minute Bush...
News Source: The Herald
| about 1 month ago
Chancellor quits amid scandal University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman resigned Tuesday following months of pressure over special attention the school paid to politically connected applicants at its Urbana-Champaign campus and news that some...
News Source: Denver Post
| about 1 month ago
00 AM MDT Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday ordered an investigation into last-minute oil-shale-research lease additions made by the Bush administration. At the same time, Salazar said his department would open a bidding process for...
News Source: Houston Chronicle
| about 1 month ago
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday said he was seeking an investigation of a Bush-era decision to give low royalty rates and favorable terms to energy companies that commercially developed oil shale on public lands in Utah and Colorado.
News Source: Associated Press
| about 1 month ago
Efforts to mine oil from rock are ongoing in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, speakers at a symposium said Tuesday, the same day Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in Salt Lake City that he would cut the size of new oil shale leases. Representatives from...
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
The Interior Department said Tuesday that it would investigate a decision made by the Bush administration to grant low royalty rates for oil shale development in the Rocky Mountains. Ken Salazar , the secretary of the interior, expressed “serious...