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White House wants to kill royalty-in-kind program
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today told Congress he would kill a controversial program that allows energy companies to use actual oil and natural gas — instead of cash — to pay the government royalties for drilling on public lands. Salazar said he would...
Tags: Interior Department, royalty program, natural gas, Ken Salazar, secretary ken, interior secretary, federal land, kind program, energy companies, BLM
Scope of new rules on federal land unclear
Cheyenne :: WY :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility When the state Legislature approved new oil and gas rules last week, a plan to implement them on private lands Wednesday became a sure thing. That’s anything but the case when it comes to the state’s plans to put the rules in place on federal land a month...
Tags: federal land
Parcels in sale may be protested
Telluride :: CO :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Officials in San Miguel County likely will protest at least some parcels slated for the auction block in a federal mineral-lease sale next month. As many as 48,000 acres of forested lands in the county are listed in the lease sale, but at least some of...
Tags: federal land, energy, San Miguel County
BLM turns aside old-growth logging protests
Portland :: OR :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Bureau of Land Management has rejected the major protests against its plan to ramp up logging in old growth forests of western Oregon and is racing to finish by the New Year's Eve deadline. BLM did not consult with federal biologists over potential harm...
Tags: federal land
Judge lifts logging ban in 40 states outside the west
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility A federal judge in California lifted a two-year-old ban on logging and oil and gas development on millions of acres of forest land in 40 states including Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth Laporte in San Francisco revised...
Tags: federal land
How Much Land Does the Federal Government Own?
This data was originally published in Stanford Magazine. It demonstrates what percentage of the land in each state is owned directly by the federal government. Many of the western states contain substantial percentages of federal land,...
Garfield County to receive over $1M from fed lands
Glenwood Springs :: CO :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Colorado � Garfield County will soon receive about a large chunk of change from the federal government in compensation for forgone tax revenue from federal lands in the county. Garfield County will receive $1,078,521 based on 1,187,973 federal acres,...
Tags: Garfield County, federal land
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