As of Dec 2011, BLM says 38m acres are permitted for oil and gas.
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Right now, the helium being sold by BLM accounts for more than 30% of the helium sold worldwide.
Silver worries that BLM lands might not receive the same level of protection as national parks or designated wilderness.
Cost Questions: We all assume if there were no DOE money and BLM land available there would not be a project.
As for increasing the bureaucracy, the BLM would need to hire 18 new full time people to deal with permitting and disclosures.
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Many states already have their own regulations governing fracking, so in some places the BLM rules would be redundant and just add unnecessary bureaucracy.
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Would this project have any privet investors without the BLM land?
Then in 1977 the BLM noticed some of the horses had distinctive traits, including stripes down the back and on the legs and black-lined hooked ears.
Once BLM ends its sales of helium as required by current law, the impact on the availability and price for helium is expected to be significant.
Conservationists wonder if the BLM can shoulder the added responsibility.
Littleton's cozy relationship with the BLM came to an end in 2000 when he pleaded guilty to selling a Kiger without a legal title, a violation of BLM adoption rules.
To find their "mooches" for this latest scam, for a small fee the boiler-room operators buy from the BLM computerized lists of leaseholders, many of whom had previously made their purchases through other scam artists.
An airplane pilot, Littleton first espied a Kiger as he was flying over the herd-management area with BLM District Manager Joshua Warburton, who was eager to generate outside interest in the horses to ensure their protection.
The BLM says 437 new mining claims have been made on land in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming where wind developers had previously applied for leases, known as rights of way, or ROW, in agency parlance.
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Mr. DAVID BOYD (Spokesman, for BLM, Northwest Colorado): The companies that we've been working with in northwestern Colorado are acutely aware of the importance of wildlife to the people of Colorado and have been fairly cooperative, in that sense.
Instruct whomever becomes Interior Secretary to recognize that the states can do a far better, more efficient job of regulating hydraulic fracturing, and the oil and natural gas industry in general, than his or her Bureau of Land Mangement (BLM) can.
The BLM, which, as of April 2012, manages a total of 245 million acres in 12 western states, has identified nearly 23 million acres of public land in six different southwestern states with solar potential: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
They argue that the BLM had violated the federal Endangered Species Act and other environmental laws by failing to adequately consider the impact of the wind farm on condors, golden eagles and other protected wildlife when it leased the project site to NextEra, the Florida-based energy developer.
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Solar Wind Energy (which used to be called Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.) is negotiating for a lease from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 1, 700-acre parcel of flat, empty desert on the Mexican border, right next to an Air Force bombing range.
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At the request of BLM, the National Research Council studied these issues and made recommendations, including a series of steps to help properly manage the helium reserve for the long term, strategies to protect the most vulnerable of users such as scientists, and ways to develop and implement a plan to protect this very important resource.
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