From: Denver Business Journal
Mesa County commissioners are criticizing the federal Bureau of Land Management to reduce the amount of land that could be open for oil shale and tar sands development, The Daily Sentinel reports.
The commissioners unanimously approved a resolution that claims the BLM has been “encumbered by a host of anti-oil shale pro-wilderness groups steering BLM’s every move.”
The Bush administration in 2008 called for leasing 2 million acres in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for possible oil share development and 431,000 for tar sands development. The BLM proposed in February to reduce that acreage to 462,000 for oil shale and 91,000 for tar sands.
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