Interior Approves Gas Drilling in Utah

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All that sun and pure water in Utah and we get more gas drilling and fracking, instead of solar. Article in Post says fracking will be used but this is not in the online article.

Salazar should be fired and I'm not sending $ to Obama's campaign until he starts supporting environmentalists instead of the oil and gas industry.


Interior Secretary Salazar approves drilling project on public lands in eastern Utah

By Associated Press, Published: May 8

SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday announced the approval of a major natural gas drilling project in Utah that the Obama administration says will support more than 4,000 jobs during its development while safeguarding critical wildlife habitat and air quality.

During an appearance outside Salt Lake City, Salazar said Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp. would be allowed to develop up to 3,675 new gas wells over the next decade in eastern Utah.
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Anadarko agreed not to drill along the high cliffs of the White River, the last major free-flowing river on the Colorado Plateau. It also agreed to buy 640 acres of private land along the river for conservation, said Steve Bloch, staff attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, which worked with the Interior Department, along with the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, to reduce the project’s impact.

Salazar and U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey praised Anadarko for working to protect the environment. snip


In contrast to the plan announced Tuesday, the federal government is poised to approve a nearby drilling project that would put more than 200 wells inside Desolation Canyon, a proposed wilderness area on the Green River, Bloch said.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/interior-secretary-to-approve-big-drilling-project-on-public-lands-in-eastern-utah/2012/05/08/gIQANs7WAU_story.html