Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged Energy Policy Act of 2005

Justice Dept. probes ex-Bush Interior Secretary Norton over oil shale leases

By David O. Williams | 09.17.09 | 9:30 am

Former Colorado attorney general and Bush administration Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton is being investigated by the Justice Department for allegedly brokering a deal with Royal Dutch Shell to provide the oil company with potentially lucrative oil shale leases…

GAO rips BLM for sidestepping NEPA on oil and gas leases

By David O. Williams | 09.16.09 | 3:45 pm

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 rather famously – or infamously, depending on your point of view – allowed for a Safe Drinking Water Act exemption for the Haliburton-perfected process of hydraulic fracturing in of natural gas wells.