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Is That a Drill in Your Pocket ... ?
Ethics violations alleged at agency that collects oil and gas royalties |
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10 Sep 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:53 PM on 10 Sep 2008 Between 2002 and 2006, a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" existed at the federal agency responsible for overseeing oil and gas royalties, according to an investigation by Minerals Management Service Inspector General Earl Devaney. Thirteen MMS employees (in an office of 55 people) are alleged to have rigged contracts, worked part-tim ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, energy, insanity, news, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics) |
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This Too Shale Pass
Bush admin proposes rules for domestic oil-shale development |
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22 Jul 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:35 AM on 22 Jul 2008 The Bush administration today will propose rules for tapping the U.S.'s vast oil-shale deposits, estimated to hold up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Oil shale development is enormously expensive and spectacularly polluting, but the U.S. Department of the Interior is expected to frame the debate in terms of high fuel prices and domestic "energy security." Presid ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Bear With Us
Green groups sue over delay in polar-bear endangered-species decision |
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01 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 9:13 AM on 01 Feb 2008 Environmental and native groups have sued -- as they are wont to do -- in an attempt to force the Interior Department to rethink its decision to sell oil and gas leases in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, which is prime polar bear habitat. The lease sale by the department's Minerals Management Service is scheduled to go ahead next week; meanwhile, another agency in the department, the Fish a ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, endangered species, energy, litigation, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Teddy Would Be Proud
Conservation organization sues feds over energy development |
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22 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Teddy Would Be Proud Conservation organization sues feds over energy development The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over the authorization of thousands of new oil and gas wells, roads, and miles of pipeline in a wildlife-rich area of Wyoming. News that an organization has sued the ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Teddy would be proud
Conservation organization sues feds over energy development |
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21 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership has sued the Department of the Interior over the authorization of thousands of new oil and gas wells, roads, and miles of pipeline in a wildlife-rich area of Wyoming. News that an organization has sued the federal government over environmental travesties is, well, not really news -- unless it's TRCP, a non-litigious group with a largely Republican membership. The move is indicative that even the Bushies' natural allies are fed up ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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An Old Lease on Life
U.S. Interior Department negotiating to recoup lost royalties |
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01 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| An Old Lease on Life U.S. Interior Department negotiating to recoup lost royalties Not yet recovered from its embarrassment at a contractual omission that lost the U.S. a hell of a lot of money, the Interior Department is negotiating with 22 oil and gas companies to try and recoup the dough. When the feds issued deep-water drilling leases for the Gulf of Mexico in 1998 and 1999, they n ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics) |
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Naughty and Nice
How the energy industry spent its holiday vacation |
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02 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Naughty and Nice How the energy industry spent its holiday vacation While you were whooping over your Wii, the energy industry exulted in a few holiday gifts of its own. Just before Christmas, a federal appeals court gave ExxonMobil a $2.5 billion break, slashing in half the $5 billion in damages that had been awarded to thousands of Alaskans affe ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, energy, environmental justice, news, oil, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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Who Are You, and What Have You Done With Our House?
House shows its green side with votes on Interior Department bill |
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19 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Who Are You, and What Have You Done With Our House? House shows its green side with votes on Interior Department bill The House of Representatives was on an eco-roll yesterday as it fixed up an Interior Department spending bill to send to the Senate. Over the objections of top Republicans, lawmakers approved 252-165 a measure that would put oil and gas ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, news, oil, politics, toxics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics) |
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You've Got Gale
Interior Secretary urges more energy extraction on public lands |
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28 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| You've Got Gale Interior Secretary urges more energy extraction on public lands According to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, the current vicious hurricane season has taught the Bush administration a lesson, namely: Keep doing the same stuff. She says that Katrina and Rita show the folly of concentrating the nation's fossil-fuel infrastructure in one geographic area, and that the solution is reducing our depe ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, energy, news, politics (all these topics) |
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