oil & gas

Push for offshore drilling disregards ocean, culture

Robert Thompson, Anchorage Daily News
Dec 23, 2008

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The 9th Circuit Court recently declared the federal decision to allow drilling in the Beaufort Sea was illegal. I am a member of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands), a plaintiff in the case. I live in Kaktovik and I am Inupiaq.

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Fixing Interior

The New York Times
Dec 17, 2008

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Mr. Salazar’s most urgent task will be to remove the influence of politics and ideology from decisions that are best left to science.

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Appeals court rules against Arctic drilling plan

Kim Murphy, The Los Angeles Times
Nov 26, 2008

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Ruling on the first of several major new projects for tapping oil and gas deposits from the Arctic floor, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the federal government should have prepared a more exhaustive environmental review before concluding that harm to whales, caribou and other Arctic wildlife either would be insignificant or could be mitigated.

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BLM backs off plan to issue drilling permits in Utah's redrock country

Patty Henetz, The Salt Lake Tribune
Nov 26, 2008

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Drilling leases on the road to Dinosaur National Monument and on lands visible from Utah's iconic Delicate Arch and near Canyonlands National Park are off the block.

In the face of intense opposition from the National Park Service, members of Congress and a top official from President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management backed down Tuesday from its plan to sell oil and gas leases near national parks and wilderness-quality areas in Utah on Dec. 19.

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CLEAR Act a Clear Solution to Oil and Gas Reforms

Anonymous
Jun 24, 2010

Bill has strong support from The Wilderness Society for improvements for conservation funding and reforms

The Wilderness Society today commends House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall on the release of a revised version of the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act – or CLEAR Act. “Mr.

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Obama Administration Halts Arctic Ocean Drilling

Anonymous
May 27, 2010

The Wilderness Society today lauded the Obama administration’s announcement that it will postpone Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to drill exploratory wells in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off the coast of Alaska until at least 2011. The administration also announced a number of other strong steps to protect off-shore resources to prevent another disaster like that in the Gulf.

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The Wilderness Society Lauds New Interior Department Oil and Gas Leasing Reforms

Anonymous
May 17, 2010

WASHINGTON, DC — New oil and gas leasing reforms announced today by the Department of the Interior represent a significant improvement for how the Bureau of Land Management will conduct its onshore oil and gas leasing program for public lands.

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