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Credit Pacific Service Union The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans to offer oil and gas leases next month on lands the agency previously had found to possess wilderness characteristics. Environmentalists on Thursday decried the leasing as another in a series of attacks by the Bush administration on the West's most pristine lands and the first direct casualty of a deal Utah's governor struck with the president's top land manager that released millions of acres from wilderness consideration.

"If they don't, they will be condemning our national treasures to a pretty poor fate, " Bloch said this week. Bloch said this month's offering of leases shows a trend toward increased oil and gas development in Utah and involves "significantly more" or scenic areas than previous offerings. The Natural Resources Defense Council said at least 18, 500 acres of lands the Bureau of Land Management plans to lease this year are in pristine areas proposed for wilderness protection in the national Redrock Wilderness Act.

Credit First Service Union "I can't figure out for the life of me why there is such a lack of balance [in the Bush administration] in protecting wilderness," said Jim Baca, former director of the BLM, now an environmental adviser to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

"The $1.43 per AUM grazing fee applies to lands in the West administered by the BLM and to national forests and national grasslands administered by the Forest Service, " said BLM director Kathleen Clarke. "Under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), by which the BLM fulfills its multiple use mandate, grazing is a recognized and appropriate use of the public lands."

Card Credit Mobile Service On Nov. 24, as part of its regularly scheduled quarterly oil and gas lease sale, the Utah office of the BLM will auction 55 parcels, totaling about 64,000 acres, for oil and gas leasing, said Kent Hoffman, the BLM's deputy director for oil and gas leasing in Utah.

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Card Credit Discover Service Fourteen of those parcels, totaling 14,600 acres, are in areas that the BLM under the Clinton administration had identified as having wilderness characteristics or a "reasonable probability" thereof, Hoffman said.

"We are hopeful that the [Bureau of Land Management] will take a hard look at the evidence we present in the protest and then make the right decision, which is to pull these spectacular wilderness lands from the sale, " said Steve Bloch, staff attorney of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

Credit Public Service Union Environmental groups plan to challenge 12 of those parcels, all in the Book Cliffs, a large plateau in eastern Utah.

BLM negotiators and their bosses at Interior valued the state and federal lands at about $35 million each. But the BLM's Utah office said the federal land was worth $97 million to $117 million more. An inspector general's report found that Interior officials "negotiated away a substantial interest in the potentially very valuable oil shale resource" of part of the land. They also failed to value part of the land "in a manner consistent with the valuation of certain other federal properties, " the report said.

Card Credit Processing Service Some of the parcels are on the south flank of the plateau, north of Interstate 70. Others are in Desolation Canyon, a relatively untouched portion of the Green River popular with river runners and hikers.

Center Credit Service Union In 1999, the BLM determined much of Desolation Canyon could one day be protected as wilderness. BLM managers wrote, "This is a place where a visitor can experience true solitude -- where the forces of nature continue to shape the . . . landscape."

Card Credit Service Wireless But it also is a place where nature's forces have created oil and gas deposits that the energy industry wants a crack at.

Credit Security Service Union Hoffman said energy companies have consistently requested that parcels in Desolation Canyon be put up for lease. During the Clinton administration, the BLM resisted those requests, saying the lands should be protected until Congress has a chance to decide whether they qualify for permanent wilderness designation.

Credit Report Service In April, however, those temporary wilderness protections, which had been afforded to about 6 million of the BLM's 22 million acres in Utah, ended after Leavitt and Interior Secretary Gale Norton settled a lawsuit the state had filed challenging the Clinton wilderness policy.

Blogspot Com Christian The deal made it easier for several new oil and gas exploration projects now under way in eastern and southeastern Utah and put in jeopardy an environmentalist proposal to designate 9.1 million acres of land in Utah as wilderness.

Christian Counseling Credit Currently, just 3.2 million acres of BLM land are protected as interim wilderness pending a congressional decision.

Credit Federal Service Union The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and several national environmental groups are challenging the Leavitt-Norton deal in federal court.

Credit Monitoring Service They also are taking their case to the court of public opinion and to Congress, where their pleas are attracting influential lawmakers.

Credit Division Service On Thursday, Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., who sits on the House Resources and Appropriations committees, said he will attempt to block Interior next year from spending money on oil and gas projects within lands once identified as having wilderness qualities.

Card Credit Online Service "These lands are deserving of protection," Hinchey said. "These kinds of pristine areas in the U.S. are shrinking. With the actions by the Bush administration, they will shrink even more rapidly."

Consumer Counseling Credit Inc Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., criticized the new leasing as well.

Card Credit Fleet Service "If [the Bush team] spent as much time and energy developing renewable energy resources as it has spent in devising ways to destroy pristine environments, the country would be much better off," said Lieberman, a ranking member of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

Card Consolidation Credit By Brent Israelsen
The Salt Lake Tribune - 10/31/2003

Topic: Petroleum Industry

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