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  • Land auction monkeywrencher has a new plan

    Ralph Maughan

    Univ. of Utah Student Tim DeChristopher could receive enough money to pay holding fees on leases he won in bid- DeChristopher hopes to run out the clock By Patty Henetz. The Salt Lake Tribune

  • Plan approved for drilling 18,000 gas wells in Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    Every well pad disrupts from 5 to 20 acres- Leaking gas is a potent climate changer. Disrupted soil does not sequester carbon. Native vegetation at the well site is almost impossible to restore. Coalbed methane wells produce huge amounts of saline (generally unreusuable water). Story by Matthew Brown. Plan approved for gas wells. AP

  • Off-road vehicle use fuels tension, violence across U.S.

    Ralph Maughan

    Most violence over private property and those who try to enforce the law- This is according to USA Today. By Emily Bazar.

  • Bogus bidder on BLM oil and gas auction picks up support

    Ralph Maughan

    Pat Shea, former head of the BLM under Clinton and Utah’s famous defense attorney, Ron Yengich, give legal aid- There is also a legal defense fund Story in the Salt Lake Tribune. Auction fallout. U. student doesn’t want to be a martyr; federal probe continues. By Patty Henetz I got this address for the fund…

  • Redford, Conservationists Seek Injunction to Stop Utah Lease Sales

    Brian Ertz

    A lot of the Bush administrations last ditch efforts are going to have to be stopped in court. Redford, Conservationists Seek Injunction to Stop Utah Lease Sales – ENS These are beautiful places and it is good to see big names galvanize to stop the leases – let’s hope there’s enough public sentiment to take…

  • Audio: A BLM insider speaks

    Ralph Maughan

    Bush’s national recreation director tells why he quit- Audio: A BLM insider speaks. Rodger Schmitt talks about why he resigned his position as national recreation director. December 12, 2008 by Emily Steinmetz and Marty Durlin. High Country News. Schmitt confirms your worst fears about how the Bushies ran the agency.

  • BLM backs off a bit more on big Dec. 19 oil and gas lease sale in Utah

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s still awful- BLM backtracks on more drilling leases. Industry and environmentalists aren’t happy with it. By Judy Fahys. Salt Lake Tribune. Added Dec. 14. Imagine if President Bush, on his last day in office, invited his friends to lift the Lincoln portrait from the White House Dining Room, take the 18th- century furniture from…

  • Oil lays waste to the West

    Ralph Maughan

    An opinion in the LA Times by Terry Tempest Williams- Oil lays waste to the West. The greed, speed and scale of development in wild lands is an open wound on America. By Terry Tempest Williams. Opinion. Los Angeles Times. December 7, 2008. – – – – – My comment. The lease sale set for…

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