The Oil-Tech, Inc. plant is shown Wednesday, July 27, 2005, east of Bonanza, Utah.
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Department of the Interior is moving to protect Western range lands from oil shale development in a reversal of a Bush administration plan.
Federal officials say they will make 1,250 square miles of public land available for commercial leasing in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. That's a third of the range lands that President George W. Bush planned to make available.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it picked the best reserves for oil shale — a hard rock that contains a primitive form of petroleum. It's also making some of the lands available for tar sands mining.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued the decision Friday along with a 6,000-page environmental impact study. The BLM says it excluded federal lands that could qualify for wilderness protection.
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This is good news for those who don't think that strip mining is attractive.
This is the dirtiest of the oil processes and uses a lot of energy and water to produce.
You can't get to the shale without strip mining.
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And the other shoe falls, Obama is letting loose, you don't think he meant it when he said he would have more leeway after the election. Your every day taxes are going up, your grocery bills are going up, your heating bills are going up. More..
Half of drilling permits gone, sixteen trillion in debt, eighty percent of our stimulus gone to other countries, and more fed money to Muslim Brotherhood then re-building our east coast after the storm.
Or, how about just proceeding with More..