Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged Arches National Park

Interior’s Salazar accuses O&G industry of engaging in ‘election-year politics’

By David O. Williams | 11.25.09 | 10:25 am

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar fired back at the oil and gas industry Tuesday, telling reporters on a conference call that recent attacks on the Obama administration’s policies have “all the flavor and deception of election-year politics,” according to the…

Utah oil-and-gas auction marked by bogus bidder, Robert Redford and heated protest

By David O. Williams | 12.21.08 | 7:35 am

More than 100 protesters outside a U.S. Bureau of Land Management oil-and-gas drilling lease auction Friday in Salt Lake City charged the federal government with selling off 164,000 acres of public land for private profit, potentially defiling some of the state’s most treasured national parks.