Interior rejects oil shale lease offerings
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today tossed out a Bush administration oil shale lease offering, saying it "didn't meet the smell test."
On Jan. 14, with less than a week in office, the Bush administration issued a solicitation for research and development oil shale leases in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
The 640-acre leases would have been four times as large as the first research leases issued in 2005. They also would have locked in a 5 percent royalty rate.
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Sam has been with The Wilderness Society since Fall 2007. He came most recently from M+R Strategic Services in Washington, DC where he worked with national environmental groups to improve their online campaign work and field organizing capacity. Before that, Sam was the Assistant National Field Director for U.S. PIRG where he covered a variety of issues including the fight to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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