{"id":1179,"date":"2010-01-07T21:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2010-01-07T21:40:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:40:26","slug":"sec-salazar-announces-oil-and-gas-leasing-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/sec-salazar-announces-oil-and-gas-leasing-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Sec. Salazar announces oil and gas leasing reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Oil and gas leasing policy reforms on federal public lands announced by Secretary Salazar on January 6:<\/p>\n<p>New guidance to BLM field managers. \u00a0BLM is to take a more active role in determining which parcels will be offered at lease auction sales. \u00a0 Secretary Salazar noted that in 1998 slightly more than 1 percent of leases were protested. \u00a0In 2008 40 percent were protested. \u00a0 [CWF protested leases of federal public lands parcels that were in critical wildlife habitat &#8211; migratory corridors, greater sage grouse leks, etc. ]<\/p>\n<p>New guidance on issuing categorical exclusions to eliminate their use in &#8220;extraordinary circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[CWF, Wyoming Wildlife Federation and New Mexico Wildlife Federation wrote a Guest Commentary in the Denver Post \u00a0on November 17, 2009\u00a0stating why categorical exclusions had become a &#8220;tool&#8221; to accelerate approval of drilling permits. \u00a0&#8220;Loose rules let oil and gas drilling alter the West.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil and gas leasing policy reforms on federal public lands announced by Secretary Salazar on January 6: New guidance to BLM field managers. \u00a0BLM is to take a more active role in determining which parcels will be offered at lease auction sales. \u00a0 Secretary Salazar noted that in 1998 slightly more than 1 percent of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"anons"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}