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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar lashed out at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, accusing some industry trade groups of acting like an arm of the Republican Party in criticizing the Obama administration's record on energy production.
A Democratic candidate for agriculture commissioner has a response to Republican calls to "Drill, Baby, Drill."
The Obama administration has delayed a decision on a request by Shell Oil Co. to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's rugged Chukchi Sea. The delay came after the oil company asked for time to respond to criticism of its plan to drill in the icy sea, a prime habitat for threatened polar bears.
In a Nov. 16 story about a federal case involving a college student's disruption of an oil and gas auction in Utah, The Associated Press erroneously described a ruling by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson.
Drillers say it's getting so hard to obtain an oil-and-gas lease in the Rocky Mountains under the new administration of President Barack Obama that many aren't bothering to show up for auctions.
A huge increase in the application fee for oil and gas companies to drill on federal land is unfair and won't speed up review of drilling permits, industry officials said Wednesday.
A group of women from Alaska's North Slope and the Canadian Arctic are in Washington this week to lobby the Obama administration and members of Congress about oil and gas development in Alaska.
Pennsylvania will open nearly 32,000 acres of additional state forest land to leasing by gas drilling companies, the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources said.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday that it was deferring the auction of controversial oil and gas leases in the high desert Adobe Town area in southwest Wyoming.
Parker Drilling Co. said Tuesday its third-quarter profit fell sharply on lower revenue as the industry continued to remain weak, but the oil drilling contractor still posted better-than-expected results.
Citizens across the state got a chance Wednesday to question a panel of supporters and opponents of a proposal to open Florida waters to oil and natural gas exploration.
Chesapeake Energy, one of the nation's largest natural gas producers, said Wednesday it won't drill in the New York City watershed in upstate New York because of opposition from politicians and environmental groups.
Defense lawyers for a college student who disrupted the auction of oil and gas drilling leases on land around some of Utah's national parks outlined in court papers Monday a plan to put global warming on trial instead of their client.
Texas and Alabama get far less money every year from offshore drilling in their state waters than advocates say Florida can expect, the state's environmental chief told a House panel Wednesday.
A federal agency announced approval Monday of a plan by Shell Offshore, Inc.'s to drill exploratory wells next year on two leases in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's north coast — a decision that environmental groups contend ignores threats to the Arctic environment and its wildlife.
Residents of pastoral Mora County have been watching records in the county clerk's office ever since the oil and gas industry began eyeing a big swath of land in the area.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that oil and gas drilling will be permitted on some of the Utah land parcels near national parks that were hurriedly readied for leasing in the waning days of the Bush administration.
A federal judge said Friday he's reluctant to put global warming on trial in the case of a Utah college student charged with disrupting a federal oil and gas lease auction for parcels near several national parks.
The Senate on Wednesday voted against an attempt by Republicans to keep in place a plan by the Bush administration to allow oil and gas drilling along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Opponents of offshore drilling — including some dressed as salmon and a polar bear — delivered more than 250,000 postcards and letters to the Interior Department Monday on a proposal to open vast waters off the Pacific and Atlantic coasts to oil and gas drilling.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management frequently misinterpreted and violated a federal law that sought to expedite oil and gas drilling in the West, a Government Accountability Office report said Wednesday.
The federal government should allow offshore oil and gas drilling along Alaska's northernmost coastline, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said Thursday in a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
A federal judge has indefinitely blocked oil and gas drilling on a wildlife refuge that sits next to the Great Sand Dunes National Park in south-central Colorado.
State parks aren't just for hiking, camping and other recreation anymore. Increasingly, these lands are being used for oil and gas drilling as budget-strapped states seek new sources of revenue.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is ruling out withdrawing energy leases issued for the Roan Plateau even though the plan to drill on public land on the western Colorado landmark is being challenged in court.
Geothermal drilling taps violent geyser in Wiesbaden city centreConstruction workers drilling for a geothermal heat source in the traditional spa town of Wiesbaden created a violent geyser that caused flooding contained only by early Friday morning, Hessian authorities said.
Gas Extraction Method Could Greatly Increase Global SuppliesOKLAHOMA CITY — A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel.
Bonds invested in Ghana's nascent oil industry rose sharply in value over the past year. They nearly doubled between November 2008 and July 2009. Ghana is working to broaden its exports beyond cocoa and gold.
Libya's General People's Committee decided on 09/09/2009 to invest 12.1 billion dinars ($9.92 billion) to develop and maintain 24 oil wells the government described as "technically, financially and economically proven productive fields", the cash will be borrowed from local b …
Burglars Hit More Than 40 Dollar General StoresThis month, more than 40 Dollar General Stores stretching from Arkansas to Tennessee have been targeted.
Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro.
$15 Million New Tax Revenue LOST For Santa Barbara County - Planet Santa Barbara - Local Newsdue to wide opposition to the new oil drilling proposed for the Tranquillon Ridge Oil and Gas Field (T-Ridge) offshore in Lompoc, there will be a LOSS in property tax to Santa Barbara County to the tune of $15 Million dollars annually.
Exploration Company announced today that its affiliate, ExxonMobil Libya Limited, has started drilling the first deepwater exploration well in Libya.
Advanced Machining in Ancient EgyptHopefully, besides mainstream Egyptologists, such as Mark Lehner and IES Edwards, (RIP) other Egyptologists do not suggest that the copper chisels, that can now be found in the Cairo Museum, were representative of the tools used to build the pyramids.
60 die in Peru rainforest protestRecent free trade agreements signed with the American and Canadian governments fueled the government to go ahead with changes to domestic laws that would seek to advance mineral, logging, oil and agricultural 'development' into previously untouched areas of the Amazon.
US Federal Court Throws out DOI's 5-yr drilling, leasing planThe Washington federal court of appeals upheld a coalition of environmental organizations' claims that the Interior Department's assessment of the environmental sensitivity of some areas was "irrational." The agency must first reconsider its assessment before moving ahead with th …
Dr. Shukri Ghanem, chairman of Libya's NOC, met on Monday 20th April 2009 with Mr. Makoto Koseki President and CEO of NOEX, the meeting was also attended by Mr. Ali Saleh NOC's General Manager, Mr. Azzam Ali Elmesallati Members of the Management Committee and Mr.
The Libyan state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) has reported two new oil and natural gas discoveries—one with Algerian partner Sonatrach in the Ghadames basin and the other with Spanish partners Repsol YPF SA and OMV AG in the Sirte basin.
Californians voice concerns to Obama administration over offshore drillingFor all his green talk en route to the White House, President Barack Obama remains a cipher on one of the most critical environmental and economic issues facing California: whether to expand drilling for oil and gas off the coast for the first time in a generation.
As Oil and Gas Prices Plunge, Drilling Frenzy Ends Lower prices are bringing to an end an ambitious effort to squeeze more oil from aging fields and to tap new sources of natural gas. For the last four years, companies here drilled below airports, golf courses, churches and playgrounds in a frantic search for energy.
Top 10 Tax-Friendly CitiesIt's not what you earn, it's what you keep that often dictates your standard of living. With that in mind, take this quick tour of the ten cities in the nation that have the lowest overall tax burden.
Oil, gas drilling would be allowed at state parks and on university propertySenate Bill 138 would allow the state's Finance and Administration Cabinet to lease oil and gas rights for state property, including the state's public universities and parks.
A Parting Shot From Bush: Outgoing Administration Seeks Offshore Drilling in Former Off-Limits AreasThe Bush administration, in one of its final acts, is proposing to let energy companies drill for oil and natural gas in half-a-dozen areas off U.S. shores that previously had been off limits.
The Real Reason Pelosi Doesn't Want Us To Drill For Oil!"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes "hand maidens of the oil companies." Let's call Pelosi what she is: House girl of the Big Wind boondogglers."
Setting the Record Straight on Hydraulic FracturingIn his Jan. 10 column in the Rocky Mountain News Independence Institute analyst David Kopel significantly misstates the record on the environmental risks posed by the gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing.
Roughneck Suffers Severe Injuries on Drilling PlatformDramatic Rescue From Drilling Platform -- Worker suffers head injury on drilling rig.
Utah Student Disrupts Land BidA Utah Student throws wrench into land bid, and protects thousands of acres in two national parks from drilling. He could now face prosecution.
Given my strong belief that George W Bush will not be truly happy or satisfied unless he leaves my entire country in shambles, he has a new thing going.
Squid with "Elbows" Caught on VideoAn underwater camera at an oil and gas drilling site off the coast of Texas has captured a rare sight: a squid with "elbows."
Drill, Baby, Drill...But Don't Kill The BabySo drill. It's going to take decades for us to figure out reasonable alternatives to our oil-dependent economy but while you're drilling, leave the babies healthy and happy. They're just as valuable...if not more...than the glob or gas you're going to suck from the earth.
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