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U.S. payouts from oil, natural gas revenue fall by half
Houston :: AK :: USA | 5 days ago
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Plunging oil and natural gas prices and a drop in revenue from lease sales cut the money the U.S. sent to states, American Indian tribes and the Treasury Department by more than half in fiscal 2009, to $10.7 billion. Revenue disbursed from oil- and gas-production...
Tags: lease sales, natural gas, Houston, Commodities market, Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing, Business Finance
Interior plans offshore drilling despite questions
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The Obama administration is moving ahead with an oil lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico next month despite legal questions about whether the proposal and other offshore drilling plans initially drawn up under President George W...Court of Appeals in Washington...
Tags: U.S. Court of Appeals, bush administration, Bush, U.S. Interior, Gulf of Mexico, lease sales
Groups protest oil and gas lease sales in Oklahoma and other states
Santa Fé :: Argentina | 7 months ago
Credibility N.M. — A coalition of sportsmen and environmental groups is challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's quarterly oil and natural gas lease sale on Earth Day, saying the agency is failing to address concerns about global warming. The coalition has...
Tags: New Mexico, lease sales, gas lease
Washington cancels leases for Utah drilling
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility They had filed a suit against the leases, complaining that Bush was rushing through a last-minute plan to auction pristine wilderness areas...Oil and gas industry representatives expressed concern about the Obama administration's energy policy. Salazar...
Tags: University of Utah, lease sales, Ken Salazar, Salazar Voids Drilling, obama administration, Bush, Obama
Salazar cancels Utah oil and gas leases
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today ordered his department to cancel 100,000 acres of Bush administration-issued oil and gas leases around national parks in Utah. Salazar directed the Bureau of Land Management, which handles lease sales, to return $6...
Tags: Utah, bush administration, Bush, Ken Salazar, Interior Department, gas lease, lease sales, interior secretary, secretary ken, Salazar Rejects Oil Bids
Activist accused of 'tainting' drilling lease sale
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility An environmental activist spoiled an auction of oil and gas drilling leases Friday by bidding up parcels of land by hundreds of thousands of dollars without any intention of paying for them, a U.S. government official said. The process was thrown into...
Tags: environment, bureau of land management, utah, BLM Utah, lease sales, drilling lease, bush administration, Bush, morally criminal, Mary Wilson
Feds to sell controversial Slope leases
Juneau :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility July 16th, 2008 10:56 AM Last Modified: July 16th, 2008 10:57 AM The federal government intends to hold a major oil and gas lease sale this fall in portions of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, officials in Washington, D.C., announced today.
Tags: alaska, oil, National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, lease sales, gas lease
Shell Is High Bidder to Drill for Oil and Gas Off Alaska
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Royal Dutch Shell led a handful of petroleum companies in bidding Wednesday for leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest shore. The sale went forward over the protest of conservation and Native Alaska groups, plus objections by Congressional
Tags: lease sales, Northwest Alaska, Native Alaska, Alaska Natives, Chukchi Sea, mineral management, polar bears, Minerals Management Service, federal government, petroleum lease
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