BLM Releases Oil Shale draft PEIS
Early on February 3, BLM released its draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for oil shale (and tar sands). BLM analyzes the allocation decision it made in 2008. The 2008 plan was to commercially lease 2 million acres (slightly less than the size of Yellowstone National Park). In the BLM’s preferred alternative, 2(b), oil shale …